Accurate global positioning system for deliveries

• US 7,970,538 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2009
• Issued: 06/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Masaaki Miyagi
• Original Assignee: Masaaki Miyagi
• Inventors: Miyagi, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Keith; Jack
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khatib; Rami
• Application Number:
  US12/535,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235096A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 701/200, 701/210, 701/212, 34099514-99517, 340/995.22, 34099524-99525, 345/157, 345/163, 345/589, 382293-300, 382/291, 382/113
• US Class Current: 701/210
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/30 Map- or contour-matching

Abstract

An accurate global positioning system having a receiver, a display screen, an input device, having capabilities for visual calibration of the system is disclosed. Further methods of operating that system are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of delivery comprising:

a. providing a global positioning system wherein the global positioning system comprises a global positioning system receiver and a display screen;

b. displaying a route image on the display screen wherein the route image is representative of an physical route;

c. displaying an indicated position on the display screen wherein the indicated position is representative of a actual position on the physical route;

d. displaying a first delivery point representation on the display screen wherein the first delivery point representation is representative of an first physical delivery point along the physical route;

e. displaying a landmark representation on the display screen wherein the landmark representation is representative of a physical landmark;

f. observing the physical relationship between a actual position and the physical landmark;

g. observing a represented relationship between the indicated position and the landmark representation;

h. recognizing a difference between the physical relationship and the represented relationship;

i. providing a manual input to the global positioning system that is proportional to the magnitude of the difference wherein the manual input causes a perceived motion selected from

movement of the route image relative to the indicated position and

movement of the indicated position relative to the route image,

 

and the perceived motion substantially eliminates the difference;

j. delivering a first item to the first physical delivery point when the indicated position is adjacent to the first delivery point representation on the display screen.

2. The method of delivery of claim 1 wherein the display screen is a touch screen input device.

3. The method of delivery of claim 1 wherein the first item is a newspaper.

4. The method of delivery of claim 1 wherein the first item is a package.

5. The method of delivery of claim 1 wherein the first physical delivery point is a driveway.

6. The method of delivery of claim 1 further comprising delivering a second item to a second physical delivery point wherein an actual distance representative of the difference between the physical relationship and the represented relationship is greater than the distance between the first physical delivery point and the second physical delivery point.

7. The method of delivery of claim 1 further comprising delivering a second item to a second physical delivery point when the indicated position is adjacent to a second delivery point representation on the display screen, wherein the second item is substantially distinct from the first item, and wherein the second delivery point representation identifies the second physical delivery point as a location in need of an item that is substantially distinct from the first item.

8. The method of delivery of claim 1 wherein the route image is a skeletal map of the physical route.

9. The method of delivery of claim 1 further comprising delivering a second item to a second physical delivery point when the indicated position is adjacent to a second delivery point representation on the display screen,

wherein the second item is substantially distinct from the first item, and

wherein the second delivery point representation identifies the second physical delivery point as a location in need of an item that is substantially distinct from the first item;

wherein an actual distance representative of the difference between the physical relationship and the represented relationship is greater than the distance between the first physical delivery point and the second physical delivery point;

wherein the first item is a newspaper;

wherein the first physical delivery point is a driveway.

10. The method of delivery of claim 1 wherein the delivering of the first item is carried out in a delivery vehicle and the indicated position is substantially representative of the size of the vehicle in comparison to the route image.