Mobile communication apparatus, mobile communication method and program

• US 9,552,731 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2014
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Sakata, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu, Yonel
• Application Number:
  US14/763,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20150356870A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,090 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Abstract

A mobile communication apparatus includes an abnormality detecting unit that detects whether or not there is an abnormality on a route; and a communication unit. When second abnormality detection information which differs from first abnormality detection information that indicates the detected abnormality has been received, it is determined that whether or not the abnormalities indicated by both information items coincide with each other. If it is determined that both abnormalities coincide with each other, then whether or not it is necessary to transmit the first abnormality detection information is determined based on a positional relationship between a position of the own apparatus and an occurrence point of the abnormality at the time when the abnormality indicated by the second abnormality detection information was detected.

Claims

1. A mobile communication apparatus comprising:

an abnormality detecting device configured to detect an abnormality occurring on a route; and

a communication device, further including a determination device, configured to communicate with a preceding apparatus and a subsequent apparatus on the route, wherein the communication device transmits first abnormality detection information indicating the abnormality detected by the abnormality detecting device when the determination device determines to transmit the first abnormality detection information to the subsequent apparatus on the route,

wherein upon receiving second abnormality detection information from the preceding apparatus on the route, the determination device determines whether or not the second abnormality detection information matches the abnormality detected by the abnormality detecting device, and

wherein upon determining that the second abnormality detection information matches the abnormality detected by the abnormality detecting device, the determination device determines whether or not to transmit the first abnormality detection information to the subsequent apparatus in accordance with a positional relationship with the preceding apparatus positioned to detect the second abnormality detection information.

2. The mobile communication apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein when the determination device determines that the second abnormality detection information matches the abnormality detected by the abnormality detecting device, the determination device determines to transmit the first abnormality detection information to the subsequent apparatus on a condition that a distance with the preceding apparatus positioned to detect the second abnormality detection information is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.

3. The mobile communication apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein when the determination device determines that the second abnormality detection information matches the abnormality detected by the abnormality detecting device, the determination device determines to transmit the first abnormality detection information to the subsequent apparatus on a condition that the communication device receives the second abnormality detection information via radio multi-hop communication with a number of hops greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.

4. The mobile communication apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein when the determination device determines that the second abnormality detection information matches the abnormality detected by the abnormality detecting device, the determination device determines to transmit the first abnormality detection information to the subsequent apparatus on a condition that an elapsed time from the preceding apparatus detecting the second abnormality detection information to the abnormality detecting device detecting, the abnormality is longer than or equal to a predetermined value.

5. The mobile communication apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein the determination device determines that the second abnormality detection information matches the abnormality detected by the abnormality detecting device, the communication device transmits to the subsequent apparatus information indicating a number of times the communication device transmits the abnormality in connection with the first abnormality detection information.

6. A mobile communication method comprising:

detecting an abnormality occurring on a route as first abnormality detection information;

upon receiving second abnormality detection information from a preceding apparatus on the route, determining whether or not the second abnormality detection information matches the detected abnormality; and

upon determining that the second abnormality detection information matches the detected abnormality determining to transmit the first abnormality detection information to a subsequent apparatus on the route in accordance with a positional relationship with the preceding apparatus positioned to detect the second abnormality detection information.

7. A non-transient computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to implement the mobile communication method according to claim 6.