PORTABLE TERMINAL AND INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM UTILIZING THE PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20090021368A1
• Filed: 09/22/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Koichi Terui
• Inventors: TERUI, Koichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,719,417 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.110
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles

Abstract

A portable terminal comprising a transmission part that transmits to information provision equipment or a server, a signal indicating presence at a prescribed location, presence of a communications counterparty at a prescribed location, a reception part that receives from the information provision equipment or the server, a signal indicating the position of a moving body, a moving body is approaching or is present at the prescribed location, an alarm part that issues an alarm using the moving body in position signal received at the reception part, indicating the moving body is approaching or is present at the prescribed location, a light detection part detecting the degree of brightness, a part deciding whether or not to transmit a present in prescribed location signal that decides, using the brightness as detected by the light detection part, whether or not to send a present in prescribed location signal from the transmission part.

Claims

1. A method of provisioning information to a portable terminal, said method comprising:

generating position information of the portable terminal;

transmitting the position information generated by the position information generator to information provision equipment or a server when a specific terminal is not close to the portable terminal;

receiving from the information provision equipment or the server, a signal indicating that a moving body is approaching or is present at a prescribed location; and

notifying a user of the portable terminal that the moving body is approaching or is present at the prescribed location when the receiver receives the signal from the information provision equipment or the server.

2. A method of provisioning information to a portable terminal, said method comprising:

transmitting to information provision equipment or a server a signal indicating presence at a prescribed location, indicating presence of a communications counterparty at a prescribed location;

receiving from said information provision equipment or said server, a signal indicating the position of a moving body indicating that a moving body is approaching or is present at a prescribed location; and

issuing an alarm, using the signal received at said reception part to indicate that said moving body is approaching or is present at said prescribed location,

wherein if a specified presence signal is received from a specified portable terminal informing that the specified terminal is present or in close proximity to said prescribed location, then not transmitting a present indication in prescribed location signal.