APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSIT PREDICTION
First Claim
1. A transit predictor to be carried by a carrier such as a person or vehicle when attempting to travel through one or more traffic signals that have a repeating change of state, the transit predictor comprising:
- a data source having a navigational output indicating carrier location and a timing output indicating time; and
a processor with a memory, said processor being coupled to said data source for recording in said memory a plurality of background data from said data source signifying (a) one or more carrier locations where data from said data source indicate the carrier was substantially stationary, and (b) one or more times when data from said data source indicate the carrier ceased being substantially stationary, said processor being operable to algorithmically derive from said plurality of background data a predicted future event that will occur around a predicted time at a location where, according to said background data, said carrier previously ceased being substantially stationary.
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Abstract
A transit predictor can be carried by a person or vehicle when attempting to travel through one or more traffic signals that repeatedly change state. The predictor has a data source with a navigational output indicating carrier location and a timing output indicating time. The transit predictor also has a processor with a memory. The processor can record in the memory a plurality of background data from the data source signifying (a) one or more carrier locations where data from the data source indicate the carrier was substantially stationary, and (b) one or more times when data from the data source indicate the carrier ceased being substantially stationary. The processor can algorithmically derive from the plurality of background data a predicted future event that will occur around a predicted time, at a location where, according to the background data, the carrier previously ceased being substantially stationary.
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44 Claims
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1. A transit predictor to be carried by a carrier such as a person or vehicle when attempting to travel through one or more traffic signals that have a repeating change of state, the transit predictor comprising:
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a data source having a navigational output indicating carrier location and a timing output indicating time; and a processor with a memory, said processor being coupled to said data source for recording in said memory a plurality of background data from said data source signifying (a) one or more carrier locations where data from said data source indicate the carrier was substantially stationary, and (b) one or more times when data from said data source indicate the carrier ceased being substantially stationary, said processor being operable to algorithmically derive from said plurality of background data a predicted future event that will occur around a predicted time at a location where, according to said background data, said carrier previously ceased being substantially stationary. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A predictive method employing a memory for use with a carrier such as a person or vehicle when attempting to travel through one or more traffic signals that have a repeating change of state, the method including the steps of:
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recurrently providing a navigational output indicating carrier location; recurrently providing a timing output indicating time; using said navigational and said timing outputs, recording in said memory a plurality of background data signifying (a) one or more carrier locations where the carrier was substantially stationary, and (b) one or more times when the carrier ceased being substantially stationary; and algorithmically deriving from said plurality of background data a predicted future event that will occur around a predicted time at a location where, according to said background data, said carrier previously ceased being substantially stationary. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. An arrangement for a carrier that attempts intersection crossings exploiting GPS for time and position information, supplements data and timing information with network data, shares data with network elements, collects, filters, with artificial intelligence, deduces meta information, annunciates, annotates on a display, proximal and subsequeal, including projected light phase, remaining time, synchronizing aspects including publishable speed to be made good to make the next green phase, traffic implications thereof, high reliability deductions in conventional traffic light colors of amber, red, green and less than reliable information in non-conventional colors such as blue, and removing such colors a slight time prior to state change, for the present intersection.
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