Apparatus and system for processing measurement data

• US 20040260460A1
• Filed: 06/14/2004
• Published: 12/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishi, Hirotaka
• Granted Patent: US 7,117,084 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/48 by combining or switching between position solutions derived from the satellite radio beacon positioning system and position solutions derived from a further system
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096758 where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

A vehicle apparatus mounted on a vehicle measures data of the vehicle, a roadside apparatus provided correspondingly to a moving region where the vehicle is to move, and a center station for receiving the data processed at the roadside apparatus. The roadside apparatus comprises a road-to-vehicle communicating section for receiving the measurement data from the vehicle apparatus, a measurement-data storing section for storing the measurement data received at the road-to-vehicle communicating section, a measurement-data summarizing section for summarizing the measurement data stored in the measurement-data storing section, and a roadside-to-center communicating section for sending the summarization measurement data summarized by the measurement-data summarizing section to the center station.

Claims

1. A measurement data processing apparatus comprising:

receiving means for receiving measurement data measured at a mobile;

measurement data storing means for storing measurement data received by the receiving means; and

measurement data summarizing means for summarizing measurement data stored by the measurement data storing means.

2. A measurement data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the measurement data summarizing means comprises section dividing means for extracting a movement path of the mobile from the measurement data and dividing the movement path extracted into sections, and section data summarizing means for summarizing the measurement data based on the section divided.

3. A measurement data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the measurement data summarizing means comprises noise removing means for removing noise contained in the measurement data.

4. A measurement data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising sending means for sending the summarization measurement data summarized by the measurement data summarizing means to another apparatus.

5. A measurement data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the measurement data processing apparatus is provided corresponding to a movement region where the mobile is to move.

6. A measurement data processing system having a mobile apparatus mounted on a mobile and for measuring data at the mobile, and a measurement data processing apparatus for processing data measured at the mobile,

the mobile apparatus comprising:

measurement data acquiring means for acquiring measurement data measured at the mobile; and

mobile sending means for sending the measurement data acquired by the measurement data acquiring means to the measurement data processing apparatus; and

the measurement data processing apparatus comprising;

data processing apparatus receiving means for receiving the measurement data sent from the mobile apparatus;

measurement data storing means for storing the measurement data received by the data processing apparatus receiving means; and

measurement data summarizing means for summarizing the measurement data stored in the measurement data storing means.

7. A measurement data processing system according to claim 6, wherein the measurement data summarizing means comprises section dividing means for extracting a movement path of the mobile from the measurement data and dividing the movement path extracted into sections, and section data summarizing means for summarizing the measurement data based on the section divided.

8. A measurement data processing system according to claim 6, wherein the measurement data summarizing means comprises noise removing means for removing noise contained in the measurement data.

9. A measurement data processing system according to claim 6, wherein the measurement data processing apparatus is provided correspondingly to a movement region where the mobile is to move.

10. A measurement data processing system according to claim 6, further comprising a measurement data transfer apparatus provided between the mobile apparatus and the measurement data processing apparatus and for transferring data measured at the mobile to the measurement data processing apparatus.

11. A measurement data processing system having a mobile apparatus mounted on a mobile and for measuring data at the mobile, a first measurement data processing apparatus for processing the data measured at the mobile, and a second measurement data processing apparatus for processing the data processed by the first measurement data processing apparatus,

the mobile apparatus comprising:

measurement data acquiring means for acquiring measurement data measured at the mobile; and

mobile transmitting means for sending the measurement data acquitted by the measurement data acquiring means to the first measurement data processing apparatus;

the first measurement data processing apparatus comprising;

first processing apparatus receiving means for receiving the measurement data sent from the mobile apparatus;

first processing apparatus storing means for storing the measurement data received by the first processing apparatus receiving means;

first processing apparatus summarizing means for summarizing the measurement data stored in the first processing apparatus storing means; and

first processing apparatus transmitting means for sending the summarization measurement data summarized by the first processing apparatus summarizing means to the second measurement data processing apparatus;

the second measurement data processing apparatus comprising;

second processing apparatus receiving means for receiving the summarization measurement data sent from the first measurement data processing apparatus; and

processing means for processing the summarization measurement data received by the second processing apparatus receiving means.

12. A measurement data processing system according to claim 11, wherein the first processing apparatus summarizing means comprises a section dividing means for extracting a movement path of the mobile from the measurement data and dividing the movement path extracted into sections, and section data summarizing means for summarizing the measurement data based on the section divided.

13. A measurement data processing system according to claim 11, wherein the first processing apparatus summarizing means comprises noise removing means for removing noise contained in the measurement data.

14. A measurement data processing system according to claim 11, wherein the first measurement data processing apparatus is provided correspondingly to a movement region where the mobile is to move.

15. A measurement data processing system having a mobile apparatus mounted on a mobile and for measuring data at the mobile, a first measurement data processing apparatus provided correspondingly to a movement region where the mobile is to move, and a second measurement data processing apparatus for processing the data processed by the first measurement data processing apparatus,

the mobile apparatus comprising:

measurement data acquiring means for acquiring measurement data measured at the mobile; and

mobile transmitting means for sending the measurement data acquitted by the measurement data acquiring means to the first measurement data processing apparatus;

the first measurement data processing apparatus comprising;

first processing apparatus receiving means for receiving the measurement data sent from the mobile apparatus;

first processing apparatus storing means for storing the measurement data received by the first processing apparatus receiving means;

first processing apparatus summarizing means for summarizing the measurement data stored in the first processing apparatus storing means; and

first processing apparatus transmitting means for sending the summarization measurement data summarized by the first processing apparatus summarizing means to the second measurement data processing apparatus;

the second measurement data processing apparatus comprising;

second processing apparatus receiving means for receiving the summarization measurement data sent from the first measurement data processing apparatus; and

second processing apparatus storing means for storing the summarization measurement data received by the second processing apparatus receiving means; and

second processing apparatus summarizing means for further summarizing the summarization measurement data stored by the second processing apparatus storing means.

16. A measurement data processing system according to claim 15, wherein the first or second processing apparatus summarizing means comprises section dividing means for extracting a movement path of the mobile from the measurement data and dividing the movement path extracted into sections, and section data summarizing means for summarizing the measurement data based on the section divided.

17. A measurement data processing system according to claim 15, wherein the first or second processing apparatus summarizing means comprises noise removing means for removing noise contained in the measurement data.

18. A measurement data processing system according to claim 15, wherein the first measurement data processing apparatus is provided correspondingly to a movement region where the mobile is to move.