Timetable Generation Device, Timetable Generation Method, Program, Timetable Generation System, and User Terminal

• US 20160012724A1
• Filed: 03/12/2013
• Published: 01/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: AHIKO, Shigeto
• Granted Patent: US 9,583,001 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 25/025 Absolute localisation, e.g. providing geodetic coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 27/12 Preparing schedules
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/127 to a central station ; Indicators in a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/13 the indicator being in the form of a map

Abstract

Information about a time at which a vehicle of public transportation passes an arbitrary point is provided. A timetable generating device includes: an obtaining unit which obtains location information of a specified point which is an arbitrary point along a route and for which a timetable is to be generated; a time identifying unit which identifies a passage time at which a vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point; a timetable generating unit which generates a timetable that includes the identified passage time; and a timetable outputting unit which outputs the generated timetable.

Claims

1. A timetable generating device, comprising:

an obtaining unit which obtains location information of a specified point which is an arbitrary point along a route and for which a timetable is to be generated;

a time identifying unit which identifies a passage time at which a vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point;

a timetable generating unit which generates a timetable that includes the identified passage time; and

a timetable outputting unit which outputs the generated timetable.

2. A timetable generating device according to claim 1,

wherein the obtaining unit obtains information of a specified route which runs through the specified point, and

wherein, the time identifying unit identifies the passage time at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point based on the location information of the specified point, location information of passage points that the vehicle of public transportation running on the specified route passes and that precede and follow the specified point, and information about passage times at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the passage points that precede and follow the specified point.

3. A timetable generating device according to claim 2, wherein the time identifying unit identifies the passage time at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point for at least one of inbound run and outbound run.

4. A timetable generating device according to claim 2, wherein the time identifying unit identifies, as the passage time, at least one of a latest passage time, a regular passage time, and an earliest passage time at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point.

5. A timetable generating device according to claim 3,

wherein the time identifying unit identifies passage times at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point for the inbound run and for the outbound run, and

wherein the timetable outputting unit outputs one timetable which displays the passage time on the inbound run and the passage time on the outbound run differently, or separate timetables one of which displays the passage time on the inbound run and another of which displays the passage time on the outbound run.

6. A timetable generating device according to claim 4,

wherein the time identifying unit identifies, as the passage time, the latest passage time, the regular passage time, and the earliest passage time at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point, and

wherein the timetable outputting unit outputs the timetable that displays the latest passage time and the earliest passage time in association with the regular passage time.

7. A timetable generating device according to claim 2, wherein the obtaining unit outputs a first screen which contains a diagram of the vehicle of the public transportation running on the specified route to receive specification of the specified point on the first screen, or outputs a second screen which contains route information and map information to receive specification of the specified route and specification of the specified point on the second screen.

8. A timetable generating method for use in a timetable generating device, comprising:

an obtaining step of location information of a specified point which is an arbitrary point along a route and for which a timetable is to be generated;

a time identifying step of identifying a passage time at which a vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point;

a timetable generating step of generating a timetable that includes the identified passage time; and

a timetable outputting step of outputting the generated timetable.

9. (canceled)

10. A timetable generating system, comprising:

a user terminal; and

a timetable generating device,

wherein the user terminal comprises;

an input unit which receives an input of location information of a specified point which is an arbitrary point along a route and for which a timetable is to be generated;

a transmission unit which transmits the input location information of the specified point to the timetable generating device;

a reception unit which receives from the timetable generating device a timetable that includes a passage time at which a vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point; and

an output unit which outputs the received timetable, and

wherein the timetable generating device comprises;

an obtaining unit which obtains the location information of the specified point from the user terminal;

a time identifying unit which identifies the passage time at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point;

a timetable generating unit which generates the timetable that includes the identified passage time; and

a timetable outputting unit which transmits the generated timetable to the user terminal.

11. A timetable generating method for use in a timetable generating system which comprises a user terminal and a timetable generating device, the method comprising:

an input step of receiving, by the user terminal, an input of location information of a specified point which is an arbitrary point along a route and for which a timetable is to be generated;

a transmission step of transmitting, by the user terminal, the input location information of the specified point to the timetable generating device;

an obtaining step of obtaining, by the timetable generating device, the location information of the specified point from the user terminal;

a time identifying step of identifying, by the timetable generating device, a passage time at which a vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point;

a timetable generating step of generating, by the timetable generating device, a timetable that includes the identified passage time;

a timetable outputting step of transmitting, by the timetable generating device, the generated timetable to the user terminal;

a reception step of receiving, by the user terminal, from the timetable generating device, the timetable that includes the passage time at which the vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point; and

an output step of outputting, by the user terminal, the received timetable.

12. A user terminal configured to hold communication to/from a timetable generating device, comprising:

an input unit which receives an input of location information of a specified point which is an arbitrary point along a route and for which a timetable is to be generated;

a transmission unit which transmits the input location information of the specified point to the timetable generating device;

a reception unit which receives from the timetable generating device a timetable that includes a passage time at which a vehicle of public transportation passes the specified point; and

an output unit which outputs the received timetable.