Mobile Object Management System, Mobile Terminal and Processing Apparatus

• US 20080291057A1
• Filed: 07/13/2004
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Horikami, Shugo, Ogawa, Isao
• Application Number:
  US11/571,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20080291057A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/995.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

Watermark embedding embeds a digital watermark in positional information measured by positioner for measuring a current position of the mobile object. The positional information embedded with the digital watermark is outputted by a track information output as track information to a carrying medium. The track information is obtained by track information obtaining from the carrying medium, and detected by watermark detection whether water mark is embedded or not. The track information from which the digital watermark is detected and the track information from which no digital watermark is detected are displayed by track display in different modes.

Claims

1. A mobile object management system, comprising a mobile terminal to be mounted on a mobile object and a processing apparatus to be coupled with said mobile terminal through a carrying medium,

said mobile terminal including:

positioning means for measuring positional information of said mobile object;

watermark embedding means for embedding a digital watermark in said positional information measured by said positioning means; and

track information outputting means for outputting said positional information embedded by said water mark embedding means with said digital watermark as track information to said carrying medium, and

said processing apparatus including;

track information obtaining means for obtaining said track information from said carrying medium,

watermark detecting means for detecting said digital watermark embedded in said positional information obtained from said carrying medium, and

track displaying means for displaying said track information from which said digital watermark is detected and said track information from which said digital watermark is not detected respectively in different modes.

2. The mobile object management system as set forth in claim 1, in which

said processing apparatus further includes map information outputting means for updating so far retained map information based on said track information from which said digital watermark is detected, and outputting said updated map information to said carrying medium, and

said mobile terminal further includes map information obtaining means for obtaining said map information from said carrying medium, and map information displaying means for displaying said map information obtained by said map information obtaining means.

3. A mobile terminal, comprising

positioning means for measuring positional information of said mobile object;

watermark embedding means for embedding a digital watermark in said positional information measured by said positioning means; and

track information outputting means for outputting said positional information embedded by said water mark embedding means with said digital watermark as track information to a carrying medium.

4. The mobile terminal as set forth in claim 3, which further comprises

map information obtaining means for obtaining map information from said carrying medium, and

map information displaying means for displaying said map information obtained by said map information obtaining means.

5. The processing apparatus comprising:

track information obtaining means for obtaining track information from said carrying medium,

watermark detecting means for detecting a digital watermark embedded in said positional information obtained from said carrying medium, and

track displaying means for displaying said track information from which said digital watermark is detected and said track information from which said digital watermark is not detected respectively in different modes.

6. The processing apparatus as set forth in claim 5, which further comprises map information outputting means for updating so far retained map information based on said track information from which said digital watermark is detected, and outputting said updated map information to said carrying medium.