Format for providing traffic information and a method and apparatus for using the format

• US 8,711,850 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2006
• Issued: 04/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Young In, Jung, Mun Ho, Joe, Moon Jeung
• Primary Examiner(s): Hamza, Faruk
• Assistant Examiner(s): GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR
• Application Number:
  US11/424,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20070019562A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,876 Days
• Field of Search: 701200-213, 340988-99515
• US Class Current: 370/389
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/091 Traffic information broadcasting broadcasting communication H04H
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/51 of receiving stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/64 for providing detail information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/70 using geographical information, e.g. maps, charts or atlases

Abstract

A method for identifying traffic information includes receiving traffic data including a first identifier, an amount of time currently taken to traverse a particular link, and information corresponding to a location associated with the particular link. The first identifier enables a determination of a type of the information that is included within the received traffic data. The method also includes determining a type of information included within the received traffic data based on the first identifier and determining current travel time information based on the information included in the received traffic data only if the first identifier enables a determination that the received traffic data includes an amount of time. The method further includes determining location information based on the information that is included in the received traffic data corresponding to the location associated with the particular link and identifying traffic information based on the determined current travel time information and the determined location information.

Claims

1. A device for processing traffic data comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive traffic data including a traffic message, the traffic message including;

a message management container including a generation time of the traffic message, and a version number of the traffic message;

an event container including a traffic speed component, a travel time information component, a current traffic congestion component, and a predicted traffic congestion component; and

a location container including a location information for a road,

wherein the traffic speed component includes speed information, and a first identifier corresponding to the speed information,

wherein the travel time information component includes travel time information, and a second identifier corresponding to the travel time information,

wherein the current traffic congestion component includes current congestion information, and a third identifier corresponding to the current congestion information,

wherein the predicted traffic congestion component includes congestion acceleration tendency information, and

wherein the traffic message further includes an additional traffic information component, the additional traffic information component including;

additional traffic information, and

a language code that identifies the language of the additional traffic information,

wherein the traffic message further includes a first value for identifying a speed unit for providing the speed information and a second value for identifying a time unit for providing the travel time information, and

a decoding unit configured to decode received traffic data.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the speed information in a traffic message consists of 8 bits of the traffic data.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the speed information indicates a travel speed by representing one of 256 levels of traffic speed.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein a data type of each of the first identifier, the second identifier, and the speed information is <

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, and a data type of the travel time information is <

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.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the first value is configured to identify whether the speed unit is m/s (meters per second) or km/h (Kilometers per hour).

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the second value is configured to identify whether the time unit is second or minute.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the first value is configured to identify whether the speed unit is m/s (meters per second) or km/h (Kilometers per hour), and

wherein the second value is configured to identify whether the time unit is second or minute.