Running route acquiring system and arrival notifying system for touring bus

• US 8,224,563 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Issued: 07/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Muramatsu, Harushi, Oishi, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dager, Jonathan M
• Application Number:
  US11/979,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20080065324A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,721 Days
• Field of Search: 701/117, 701/200, 701/201, 701/204, 701/207, 701/213, 701/302, 340/944, 340989-996
• US Class Current: 701/209
• 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

The latitude/longitude and time acquired at prescribed sampling time intervals by a touring bus 1 which runs a predetermined running route are wireless-transmitted. A user 6 specifies a getting-on/off point on the basis of the latitude/longitude and time provided by the touring bus and acquires a running route inclusive of the getting-on/off point. Therefore, the user can acquire the running route inclusive of the getting-on/off point easily and instantaneously. The user can specify the getting-on/off point using the speed computed from the latitude/longitude and time acquired. Thus, the user can set his desired notifying point on the running route thus acquired. In such a configuration, there are provided a system for permitting a user of a touring bus to acquire a running route of the touring bus inclusive of a getting-on/off point easily and instantaneously and a system for notifying the arrival of the touring bus which permits the user to set his desired notifying point easily.

Claims

1. A touring bus running route acquisition system for permitting a user of a touring bus to acquire a newest running route of the touring bus inclusive of a getting-on/off point, comprising:

on a side of the touring bus running the newest running route,

latitude/longitude acquisition means for acquiring its own latitude/longitude at predetermined sampling periods;

time acquisition means for acquiring time of day when the latitude/longitude is acquired; and

terminal side communicating means having a function of wireless-transmitting the latitude/longitude and the time of day thus acquired, and on a side of the user,

notifying point setting means for setting a notifying point on the newest running route, wherein the user is notified when the touring bus arrives at the notifying point;

notifying means for notifying the arrival in response to a predetermined notifying command received on the side of the user;

,

bus data acquisition means for acquiring the latitude/longitude and the time of day provided by the touring bus; and

a getting-on/off point specifying means for specifying a getting-on/off point on the basis of a speed computed from the latitude/longitude and the time of day,

the system further comprising storage means for storing the newest running route by the bus running entirely to which a formal route name is appended,

wherein the getting-on/off point is a point where the speed is zero at a prescribed number of times of consecutive sampling periods.

2. A touring bus running route acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein said running route is a newer running route.