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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Hydro-aire, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Inventor:
Andrew Brett Slatkin, Tarzana, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hydro-Aire, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/17 (2006.01); G08G 5/06 (2006.01); B60T 7/12 (2006.01); B60T 8/32 (2006.01); B60T 8/172 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); B64C 25/42 (2006.01); B60T 7/16 (2006.01); B61H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/1703 (2013.01); B60T 7/12 (2013.01); B60T 7/16 (2013.01); B60T 8/172 (2013.01); B60T 8/32 (2013.01); B64C 25/426 (2013.01); G08G 5/0021 (2013.01); G08G 5/065 (2013.01); B60T 2210/36 (2013.01); B61H 1/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A braking system and method utilizing a simplified estimate of a distance between two locations on the earth based on spherical geometry. A braking system utilizing the aforementioned simplified estimate does not require computationally intensive calculations and is more efficient and better equipped to handle real-time generation of distance estimates for braking needs and variable conditions. In the present invention, geodesics evaluations are not used; rather, a modified Haversine formula that simplifies computations is used, including a one-time computation of the cosine of latitude coordinate.