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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2005
Alan Henry Jones, Histon, GB;
Alan Henry Jones, Histon, GB;
Cotares Limited, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for predicting the future behavior of an object such as a vehicle. A location and time determining system, such as a GPS receiver (), determines the geographical location of the vehicle and the current time and supplies this to a processor, such as a computer () with a program memory (). The processor periodically records the location and time to form a record of sightings of the vehicle. The processor () compares a sequence of recent sightings with earlier recorded sightings from the record to find matching sequences which represent journey segments which match over a predetermined minimum distance. The processor () retrieves some of the sightings which follow the matching sequences and derives from these a prediction of the future behavior, for example possible future routes and destinations of the vehicle.