Method for car navigating using traffic signal data

• US 9,043,143 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyungpook National University
• Original Assignee: Kyungpook National University
• Inventors: Han, Dong Seog
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu, Yonel
• Application Number:
  US14/109,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20150057923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 701117-119, 701/400, 701410-412, 701/423, 701/428, 701/465, 340/988, 340/994, 340/995.1, 340/995.13
• US Class Current: 701/465
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096844 where the complete route is dynamically recomputed based on new data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096866 where the complete route is shown to the driver

Abstract

There is a provided a method for car navigating using traffic signal data. The method for car navigating is characterized of providing an optimized route for the earliest arrival to destinations by using signal system data of one or more traffic signals existing on a certain route.

Claims

1. A method for car navigating using traffic signal data through a vehicle navigation device, comprising:

obtaining data of a current position (step A);

producing data of a plurality of routes to a destination with the current position as a standard (step B);

calculating an expected time for arrival to a destination by using signal system data of one or two more traffic signals positioned on the produced route and data of the traffic volume by separate routes (step C);

displaying a route feasible to the fastest arrival from among calculated estimated times of arrival in the plurality of routes (step D);

reproducing data of the plurality of routes to the destination with the current position as a standard, if a time difference beyond a certain level generates between actual time data that shows an arrival at a randomly designated position and data that shows an expected time for arrival to the designated position, in driving on the routes (step E);

recalculating an expected time for arrival to the destination by using signal system data of one or two more traffic signals positioned on the route produced in the step E, and the average moving speed of vehicles on the routes based on data of traffic volume by separate routes received using the Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) mobile communications network (step F); and

selecting a route feasible to the fastest arrival by using data of the expected time for arrival produced in the step F and updating data of the displayed route to the data of the selected route (step G).

2. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the signal system data of traffic signal used in the step C comprises any one or more selected from:

time data at which the traffic signal is changed to a certain signal;

time data for which the signal lasts; and

pattern data in which the signal is changed.

3. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the expected time for arrival to the destination in the step C is, calculated by using the average moving speed of vehicles on the routes based on data of the traffic volume by separate routes received using the Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) mobile communications network, and expected wait time data according to the signal system data of one or two more traffic signals on the route.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying time data for which a driver waits until the traffic signal is changed when a driver'"'"'s vehicle is on waiting by a wait signal of a certain traffic signal (step H).