Running route acquiring system and arrival notifying system for touring bus

• US 20080065324A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harushi Muramatsu, Hiroki Oishi
• Original Assignee: Harushi Muramatsu, Hiroki Oishi
• Inventors: Oishi, Hiroki, Muramatsu, Harushi
• Granted Patent: US 8,224,563 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/209
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968

Abstract

The latitude/longitude and time acquired at prescribed sampling time intervals by a touring bus 1 which runs a predetermined running route are wireless-transmitted. A user 6 specifies a getting-on/off point on the basis of the latitude/longitude and time provided by the touring bus and acquires a running route inclusive of the getting-on/off point. Therefore, the user can acquire the running route inclusive of the getting-on/off point easily and instantaneously. The user can specify the getting-on/off point using the speed computed from the latitude/longitude and time acquired. Thus, the user can set his desired notifying point on the running route thus acquired. In such a configuration, there are provided a system for permitting a user of a touring bus to acquire a running route of the touring bus inclusive of a getting-on/off point easily and instantaneously and a system for notifying the arrival of the touring bus which permits the user to set his desired notifying point easily.

Claims

1. A touring bus running route acquisition system for permitting a user of a touring bus to acquire a running route of the touring bus inclusive of a getting-on/off point comprising:

on the side of the touring bus running the running route,

latitude/longitude acquisition means for acquiring its own latitude/longitude at predetermined sampling periods;

time acquisition means for acquiring the time when the latitude/longitude is acquired; and

terminal side communicating means having a function of wireless-transmitting the latitude/longitude and time thus acquired, and on the side of the user,

bus data acquisition means for acquiring the latitude/longitude and time provided by the touring bus; and

a getting-on/off point specifying means for specifying a getting-on/off point on the basis of the speed computed from the latitude/longitude and time.

2. A touring bus running route acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein said running route is the newest running route.

3. A touring bus running route acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein said getting-on/off point is a point where the speed is zero at a prescribed number of times of consecutive sampling periods.

4. A touring bus running route acquisition system according to claim 1, further comprising:

storage means for storing the running route to which an formal route name is appended.