Information processing apparatus with transfer or arrival precaution

• US 5,955,974 A
• Filed: 03/13/1998
• Issued: 09/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Togawa, Yoshifusa
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C.
• Application Number:
  US09/041,770
• Time in Patent Office: 557 Days
• Field of Search: 340/994, 340/995, 340/988, 340/990, 340/996, 340/991, 340/539, 711/109, 455/269, 455/348, 455/351, 343/702, 361/686, 361/737, 439/357, 439/916, 701/202, 701/209, 701/210, 701/207, 701/213, 434/116, 434/365
• US Class Current: 340/994
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• 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

An information processing apparatus carried by a user, with which the user can work while moving to a place or transferring or a destination utilizing transport facilities such as a train, a bus and the like, has a receiving-recognizing unit for receiving information for recognizing the present position during the move to the place for transferring or the destination as a signal from the outside to recognize the present position during the move from the received signal, and a notifying unit for displaying a positional relation between present position information recognized by the receiving-recognizing unit and the place for transferring or the destination in the transport facilities in a state of work operation to notify of transfer or arrival precaution information. The information processing apparatus notifies the user that the user arrives at the place for transferring or the destination so that the user is prevented from riding past and can concentrate the work.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function carried by a user, with which the user can work while moving to a place for transferring or a destination utilizing transport facilities, comprising:

a receiving-recognizing unit for receiving information for recognizing the present position during a move to said place for transferring or said destination as a signal from the outside to recognize the present position during the move from said received signal; and

a notifying unit for displaying a positional relation between said present position information recognized by said receiving-recognizing unit and said place for transferring or said destination in a state of work operation, thereby notifying of transfer or arrival precaution information.

2. The information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function according to claim 1 further comprising a memorandum window displaying unit for displaying a window for memorandum in which memorandum information can be recorded when a user of said information processing apparatus suspends said work so that the user can resume the work in the next occasion.

3. The information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function according to claim 1, wherein said notifying unit increases a size of a display as the positional relation between said present position and said place for transferring or said destination gets closer.

4. An information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function carried by a user, with which the user can work while moving to a place for transferring or a destination utilizing transport facilities, comprising:

a position detecting signal receiving unit for receiving a signal for detecting the present position during the move from a geostationary satellite while said information processing apparatus moves to said place for transferring or said destination;

a present position information detecting unit for detecting the present position during the move on the basis of the received signal from said position detecting signal receiving unit;

a transfer or arrival position table in which position information relating to said place for transferring or said destination is registered in advance;

a positional relation extracting unit for extracting a positional relation between the present position and said place for transferring or said destination by referring to said transfer or arrival position table on the basis of said present position detection information detected by said present position information detecting unit; and

a displaying unit for interrupting a state of another work to display said positional relation extracted by said positional relation extracting unit as transfer or arrival precaution information.

5. The information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function according to claim 4 further comprising a move history tracing unit for tracing a move history utilizing said transport facilities on the basis of said present position information during the move from said present position information detecting unit, wherein the move history traced by said move history tracing unit is used as register information of said transfer or arrival position table.

6. The information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function according to claim 4, wherein said transfer or arrival position table is made on the basis of a habit of using said transport facilities.

7. An information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function carried by a user, with which the user can work while moving to a place for transferring or a destination utilizing transport facilities, comprising:

a transmitting unit for transmitting a signal for notifying of a present position to a remote apparatus;

a positional relation information receiving unit for receiving information relating to a positional relation between said present position and the place for transferring or the destination extracted correspondingly to said signal having been transmitted by said transmitting unit from said remote apparatus; and

a displaying unit for interrupting a state of another work to display said positional relation received by said positional relation information receiving unit as transfer or arrival precaution information.

8. The information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function according to claim 7, wherein said transmitting unit transmits the signal for notifying of the present position to said remote apparatus via a geostationary satellite.

9. The information processing apparatus with a transfer or arrival precaution notifying function according to claim 7, wherein said transmitting unit transmits the signal for notifying of the present position to said remote apparatus via said transport facility.

10. An apparatus for transmitting information for transfer or arrival precaution comprising:

a position detecting signal receiving unit for receiving a position detecting signal transmitted from an information processing apparatus in a state of work operation while said information processing apparatus moves to a place for transferring or a destination utilizing transport facilities;

a present position information detecting unit for detecting the present position of said information processing apparatus during the move on the basis of the received signal from said position detecting signal receiving unit;

a transfer or arrival position table in which position information relating to said place for transferring or said destination is registered in advance for each information processing apparatus;

a positional relation extracting unit for extracting a positional relation between the present position and said place for transferring or said destination by referring to said transfer or arrival position table on the basis of said present position detection information detected by said present position detecting unit; and

a transfer or arrival precaution information transmitting unit for transmitting said positional relation extracted by said positional relation extracting unit so that said information processing apparatus uses said positional relation as transfer or arrival precaution information to be notified.

11. The apparatus for transmitting information for transfer or arrival precaution according to claim 10 further comprising a move history tracing unit for tracing a move history utilizing said transport facilities on the basis of said present position information during the move from said present position information detecting unit, wherein the move history traced by said move history tracing unit is used as register information of said transfer or arrival position table.

12. The apparatus for transmitting information for transfer or arrival precaution according to claim 10, wherein said transfer or arrival position table is made on the basis of a habit of using said transport facilities.

13. A transfer or arrival precaution notifying method used in an information processing apparatus carried by a user, with which the user works while moving to a place for transferring or a destination utilizing transport facilities, comprising the steps of:

a position detecting signal receiving step of receiving a signal for detecting a present position during the move from a geostationary satellite;

a present position information detecting step of detecting the present position during the move on the basis of the received signal obtained at said position detecting signal receiving step;

a positional relation extracting step of extracting a positional relation between said present position detected at said present position information detecting step and the place for transferring or the destination set in advance for each information processing apparatus; and

a displaying step for interrupting a state of another work to display said positional relation extracted at said positional relation extracting step as transfer or arrival precaution information.

14. A transfer or arrival precaution notifying method used in an information processing apparatus carried by a user, with which the user works while moving to a place for transferring or a destination utilizing transport facilities, comprising the steps of:

a transmitting step of transmitting a signal for notifying of the present position from said information processing apparatus to a remote apparatus;

a position detecting signal receiving step of receiving said position detecting signal transmitted from said information processing apparatus by said remote apparatus;

a present position information detecting step of detecting the present position of said information processing apparatus during the move on the basis of said received signal obtained at said position detecting signal receiving step;

a positional relation extracting step of extracting a positional relation between said present position detected at said present position information detecting step and the place for transferring or the destination set in advance for each information processing apparatus;

a transfer or arrival precaution information transmitting step of transmitting said positional relation extracted at said positional relation extracting step as transfer or arrival precaution information;

a positional relation information receiving step of receiving information relating to said positional relation between said present position and said place for transferring or said destination extracted correspondingly to said signal transmitted at said transfer or arrival precaution information transmitting step by said information processing apparatus; and

a displaying step of interrupting a state of another work to display said positional relation received at said positional relation information receiving step as transfer or arrival precaution information.

15. A computer readable record medium in which a program used to operate said computer is recorded, the improvement comprising:

said program making said computer function as a receiving-recognizing means for receiving information for recognizing the present position during a move to a place for transferring or a destination in transport facilities as a signal from the outside to recognize said present position during the move from said received signal, and a notifying means for displaying a positional relation between said present position information recognized by said receiving-recognizing means and said place for transferring or said destination in said transport facilities to notify of transfer or arrival precaution information in a state of a work operation of said computer.