Information transmitting/receiving system, information transmitting/receiving method, and handwritten information compressing method used for them

• US 20020194213A1
• Filed: 06/21/2002
• Published: 12/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takayanagi, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US10/168,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20020194213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/268
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The present invention provides an information transmitting/receiving system, by which it is possible to receive all information data by putting priority rank to the information when all information data cannot be transmitted at one time due to a limitation in the communication means. The information transmitting/receiving system comprises handwritten information extracting means 405 for dividing the information to a set of a plurality of data, a data transmission setting unit 406 for setting a timing to transmit a plurality of divided data to a plurality of data transmitting units, communication units 402 for transmitting the divided data from an information data transmitting unit 407 via a transmitting/receiving server 416, and a mobile information system 403, which comprises a handwritten/image data receiving unit 410 for receiving the data, a handwritten/image data processing unit 411 for restoring the received data to the initial information, and a handwritten/image data display unit 412.

Claims

1. An information transmitting/receiving system, comprising a center unit, said center unit comprising handwritten information input means for converting a handwritten information to an electric information, handwritten information extracting means for extracting a necessary part from said electric information converted by said handwritten information input means, a communication server for processing the extracted information extracted by said handwritten information extracting means, and handwritten information storage means for storing said extracted information extracted by said handwritten information extracting means under control of said communication server, said information transmitting/receiving system further comprising a transmitting/receiving server connected to said communication server, communication means on a passage connected to said transmitting/receiving server, and a mobile information system for receiving a communication information from said center unit via said transmitting/receiving server and said communication means, whereby said extracted information is divided to a plurality of data at said communication server and is transmitted to said communication means via said transmitting/receiving server as said communication information, and said mobile information system receives said communication information.

2. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein an image information taken by image information acquisition means installed at a plurality of locations is stored in said communication server via said communication means and said transmitting/receiving server, said image information is divided to a plurality of data by said communication server and is transmitted to said communication means via said transmitting/receiving server as said communication information, and said mobile information system acquires said image information by receiving said communication information.

3. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein said communication server divides said extracted information and sequentially transmits said information from a plurality of said communication means in a predetermined order via said transmitting/receiving server, and said mobile information system receives from said communication means said communication information transmitted from said center unit via said communication means according to the order of transmission.

4. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein said communication server divides said extracted information and transmits in an arbitrary order the information from a plurality of said communication means, said mobile information system receives said communication information from said center unit, and said mobile information system restores said communication information.

5. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein said handwritten information extracting means decomposes said electric information converted by said handwritten information input means, and recognizes degree of importance of each of the decomposed data.

6. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein said handwritten information extracting means converts and processes said electric information converted by said handwritten information input means either to bit map format or to compression vector format, and the information is outputted to said communication server as said extracted information.

7. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein map display means is provided on said mobile information system, at least one of a map data possessed by said map display means or a map data acquired via the communication means is combined with said communication information received by said mobile information system, and the combined information is displayed on said mobile information system.

8. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein said center unit transmits a recommended route information for sequentially receiving said communication information divided to a plurality of data via said transmitting/receiving server and said communication means, and said mobile information system combines said communication information with said recommended route information and displays the combined information on said mobile information system.

9. The information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, wherein said handwritten information input means expresses a handwritten information by said handwriting input by a set of a start point data and an end point data and further expresses a data between said start point data and said end point data by a middle point data and a differential information, and said handwritten information is converted to said electric information.

10. The information transmitting/receiving method, comprising, on the transmitting side, the steps of decomposing an information to be transmitted to a plurality of data, adding priority rank to said decomposed data and rearranging the data, adding said decomposed data and judging which of the added data and a preset data amount is larger, and transmitting the decomposed data to an extent not to exceed the preset data amount, and, on the receiving side, the steps of receiving data from said transmitting side, rearranging and restoring and processing the received data to an information closer to the decomposed initial data, and displaying said restored information.

12. The information transmitting/receiving method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein said information to be transmitted is a handwritten information or an image information.

13. The information transmitting/receiving method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein said method comprises the steps of expressing said handwritten information by a set of a start point data and an end point data in case the information to be transmitted is a handwritten information, and expressing a data between said start point data and said end point data by a middle point data and a differential information.

11. The information transmitting/receiving method, comprising, on the transmitting side, the steps of dividing an information to be transmitted to a set of a plurality of data, setting a timing to transmit said divided data to a plurality of communication means and setting allocation of the communication means, and transmitting said divided data, and, on the receiving side, the steps of receiving data from said transmitting side, restoring said received data to the initial information, and displaying said restored information.

14. A method for compressing a handwritten information in information input means for converting a handwritten information to an electric information, said method comprising the steps of expressing said handwritten information by a set of a start point data and an end point data, and expressing a data between said start point data and said end point data by a middle point data and a differential information.