METHOD FOR SMART ANNOUNCING OF BUS STOP

• US 20090210150A1
• Filed: 02/15/2008
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: United International Commerce Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Chunghwa United Television Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Shiun-Chih, Liao
• Application Number:
  US12/031,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210150A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/208
• 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

A method for smart announcing of bus stop, includes using a navigation positioning device to receive signal from a satellite, retrieve current vehicle geographic longitude and latitude coordinates from the received signal, compare a databank thereof with the current geographic longitude and latitude coordinates to locate a special position value, such as a tunnel, and compute a distance from the current position to a next target position value, such as, a stop, based on the special position value and the current geographic longitude and latitude coordinates; and using a processing unit to receive data from the navigation positioning device, compute parameters for adjusting a remaining distance and the remaining distance based on the received data, and determine whether to drive an audio-visual device according to the remaining distance and the distance to the next target position value, so as to timely inform passengers of the arrival at the next stop.

Claims

1. A method for smart announcing of bus stop applicable to a transport vehicle, the method being implemented through a smart bus stop announcing system having a navigation positioning device, a processing unit electrically connected to the navigation positioning device, and an audio-visual (AV) device electrically connected to the processing unit, and comprising the following steps:

the navigation positioning device receiving a satellite, signal transmitted by a satellite;

the navigation positioning device retrieving current vehicle geographic longitude and latitude coordinates from the received satellite signal, and computing to obtain data of current vehicle speed;

the navigation positioning device comparing a databank built therein with the current vehicle geographic longitude and latitude coordinates, and determining whether there is a special position value in a scheduled route, data set in the databank;

the navigation positioning device starting computing a distance from the current position to a next target position value in the scheduled route data, based on coordinates of the special position value and the current vehicle geographic longitude and latitude coordinates;

the processing unit computing parameters for adjusting a remaining distance and a remaining distance, based on basic vehicle speed data set in the navigation positioning device and the data of current vehicle speed; and

the AV device being driven based on the remaining distance and the distance to the next target position value to timely inform passengers of the arrival at the next stop.

2. The method for smart announcing of bus stop as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in computing the parameters for adjusting the remaining distance and the remaining distance, the processing unit may utilize an artificial neural system or a fuzzy system to control the computing, so that the computing of most appropriate bus stop announcing time can be achieved.

3. The method for smart announcing of bus stop as claimed in claim 1, wherein the AV device includes a display unit.

4. The method for smart announcing of bus stop as claimed in claim 1, wherein the AV device includes an audio unit.

5. The method for smart announcing of bus stop as claimed in claim 3, wherein the display unit is an LCD.

6. The method for smart announcing of bus stop as claimed in claim 4, wherein the audio unit is a loudspeaker.