Road-vehicle communication system and vehicle-mounted device

• US 8,299,940 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2008
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
• Inventors: Kinoshita, Yoshihito
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, TOAN NGOC
• Application Number:
  US12/808,427
• Publication Number:
  US 20110102194A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,411 Days
• Field of Search: 340/905, 340/995.1, 340/995.12, 340/995.13, 340/996, 340/901, 701/201, 701/400, 701/428, 701/441
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

A road-vehicle communication system comprises roadside apparatuses, a center device, and a vehicle-mounted device mounted in a vehicle. The roadside apparatuses are each given identification information for identifying itself. The center device transmits to the vehicle the identification information about a first roadside apparatus installed on the road where the vehicle is traveling as first identification information via the first roadside apparatus and the identification information about a second roadside apparatus via which the vehicle is expected to travel to the destination as second identification information when the vehicle is traveling in the lane of the road where the first roadside apparatus is installed. The vehicle-mounted device stores the transmitted first identification information. If the secondarily transmitted second identification information includes the stored first identification information, the vehicle-mounted device reproduces content information transmitted together with the second identification information. The vehicle-mounted device judges whether or not the content information is for the lane where the vehicle is traveling and reproduces the content information if so.

Claims

1. A road-vehicle communication system comprising:

a vehicle-mounted device mounted on a traveling vehicle;

a plurality of roadside apparatuses that perform short-range communication with the vehicle-mounted device; and

a center apparatus that is communicably connected to the roadside apparatuses and transmits content information to the vehicle-mounted device via the roadside apparatuses, wherein

identification information for identifying each of the plurality of roadside apparatuses is given to the plurality of roadside apparatuses,

the center apparatus transmits the identification information concerning the roadside apparatus via the roadside apparatus as first identification information and transmits, as second identification information, identification information concerning a roadside apparatus via which the vehicle is expected to travel to reach a destination if the vehicle is traveling in a traveling direction a traffic lane where the roadside apparatus is installed, and

the vehicle-mounted device stores the first identification information transmitted from the center apparatus and, if the stored first identification information is included in the second identification information transmitted from the center apparatus next time, reproduces content information transmitted together with the second identification information and deletes the second identification information transmitted from the center apparatus after reproducing the content information.

2. A road-vehicle communication system comprising:

a vehicle-mounted device mounted on a traveling vehicle; and

a plurality of roadside apparatuses that perform short-range communication with the vehicle-mounted device and transmit content information to the vehicle-mounted device, wherein

identification information for identifying each of the plurality of roadside apparatuses is given to the plurality of roadside apparatuses,

the roadside apparatus transmits the identification information concerning the roadside apparatus as first identification information and transmits, as second identification information, identification information concerning a roadside apparatus via which the vehicle is expected to travel to reach a destination if the vehicle is traveling in a traveling direction a traffic lane where the roadside apparatus is installed, and

the vehicle-mounted device stores the first identification information transmitted from the roadside apparatus and, if the stored first identification information is included in the second identification information transmitted from the roadside apparatus next time, reproduces content information transmitted together with the second identification information and deletes the second identification information transmitted from the roadside apparatus after reproducing the content information.

3. A vehicle-mounted device comprising:

a communication unit configured to be able to perform wireless communication with a plurality of roadside apparatuses to which identification information for identifying each of the plurality of roadside apparatuses is given, receives the identification information concerning the roadside apparatus, which is transmitted from the roadside apparatus, as first identification information, and receives, as second identification information, identification information concerning a roadside apparatus via which the vehicle is expected to travel to reach a destination if the vehicle is traveling in a traveling direction a traffic lane where the roadside apparatus is installed;

a storage unit configured to store the first identification information transmitted from the roadside apparatus;

a reproducing unit configured to reproduce content information provided from the roadside apparatus; and

a control unit configured to cause, if the first identification information stored in the storage unit is included in the second identification transmitted from the roadside apparatus, the reproducing unit to reproduce content information transmitted together with the second identification information and deletes the second identification information transmitted from the roadside apparatus after reproducing the content information.

4. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit causes the storage unit to store and accumulate in order the first identification information transmitted from the roadside apparatus and causes, if any one kind of the first identification information stored in the storage unit is included in second identification information transmitted from the roadside apparatus next time, the reproducing unit to reproduce content information transmitted together with the second identification information.

5. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 3, wherein the control unit deletes, if the content information transmitted from the roadside apparatus is reproduced, the first identification information stored in the storage unit and causes the storage unit to store anew the first identification information received this time.

6. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 3, wherein the content information is traveling support information provided to be discriminated for up and down traffic lanes of a road.

7. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 3, wherein the vehicle-mounted device does not have a navigation function and is unable to understand a location and a traveling direction of the vehicle on which the vehicle-mounted device is mounted.