COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RECEIVING DEVICE

• US 20140335888A1
• Filed: 04/24/2014
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: NOMURA, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 9,207,326 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/16 Control of distance between vehicles, e.g. keeping a distance to preceding vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/04 providing carrier phase data
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0045 Transmission from base station to mobile station G01S5/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

In a communication system, a transmitting unit divides each of latitude data and longitude data of a current location transmitted from a GPS receiver, at a predetermined digit position, into high order data and low order data. The transmitting unit makes a high order frame containing the high order data of each of the latitude data and the longitude data, and a low order frame containing the low order data of each of the latitude data and the longitude data, and transmits the high order frame and the low order frame, independently to a CAN bus. A receiving unit combines the high and low order data regarding the latitude data together, and further combines the high and low order data regarding the longitude data, extracted from the received high and low order frames in order to reconstruct the latitude data and the longitude data of the current location.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

an acquiring section which acquires latitude data and longitude data of a current location transmitted from a location detection section which detects the current location;

a dividing section which divides the latitude data and longitude data of the current location acquired by the acquiring section, at a predetermined digit position, into high order data and low order data of the latitude and high order data and low order data of the longitude, respectively;

a generating section which generates a high order frame and a low order frame in which the high order frame contains the high order data of the latitude and the high order data of the longitude, and the low order frame contains the low order data of the latitude and the low order data of the longitude;

a transmitting section which transmits the high order frame and the low order frame generated by the generating section, in different transmission data to a predetermined communication network;

a receiving section which receives the high order frame and the low order frame transmitted from the transmitting section;

a reconstructing section which extracts and combines the high order data of the latitude in the high order frame and the low order data of the latitude in the low order frame, and extracts and combines the high order data of the longitude in the high order frame and the low order data of the longitude in the low order frame, and reconstructs current latitude data and current longitude data of the current location; and

an output section which outputs the current latitude data and the current longitude data of the current location reconstructed by the reconstructing section.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a judgment section and a correction section, wherein

the judgment section compares the current latitude data and the current longitude data of the current location currently reconstructed by the reconstructing section with previous latitude data and previous longitude data previously constructed by the reconstructing section, and detects whether or not a difference between the current latitude data and the current longitude data and the previous latitude data and the previous longitude data is not less than a predetermined threshold value;

and

the correction section corrects the current latitude data and the current longitude data by using a predetermined value when the comparison result indicates that the difference is not less than the predetermined threshold value, and

the output section outputs the corrected latitude data and the corrected longitude data of the current location when the comparison result indicates that the difference is less than the predetermined threshold value, and the current latitude data and the current longitude data of the current location reconstructed by the reconstructing section when the comparison result indicates that the difference is less than the predetermined threshold value.

3. The communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a transmitting unit comprising the acquiring section, the dividing section, the generating section and the transmitting section.

4. The communication system according to claim 2, further comprising a transmitting unit comprising the acquiring section, the dividing section, the generating section and the transmitting section.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving unit comprising the receiving section, the reconstructing section and the output section.

6. The communication system according to claim 2, further comprising a receiving unit comprising the receiving section, the reconstructing section, the judgment section and a correction section and the output section.