EP0300205B1 - Méthode de reproduction sélective suivant l'itinéraire de messages routiers ainsi que récepteur pour véhicule - Google Patents

Méthode de reproduction sélective suivant l'itinéraire de messages routiers ainsi que récepteur pour véhicule Download PDF

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EP0300205B1
EP0300205B1 EP88109732A EP88109732A EP0300205B1 EP 0300205 B1 EP0300205 B1 EP 0300205B1 EP 88109732 A EP88109732 A EP 88109732A EP 88109732 A EP88109732 A EP 88109732A EP 0300205 B1 EP0300205 B1 EP 0300205B1
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    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/09—Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions
    • G08G1/091—Traffic information broadcasting
    • G08G1/093—Data selection, e.g. prioritizing information, managing message queues, selecting the information to be output

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  • the invention relates to a vehicle receiver for the route-selective playback of traffic messages according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the advantage of the known measure is that the driver can reach the messages that concern him and that his attention is not claimed by messages that are irrelevant to him. This helps to relieve the driver and thus improve traffic safety, especially during peak traffic periods.
  • the Information stored in these segments can be called up by evaluating the digital traffic news. This enables the detailed information corresponding to the data telegram to be generated and the digital data transmission to take place at a faster repetition rate.
  • the vehicle receiver according to the invention with the features of the main claim has the advantage that it is possible that by comparing the route-specific features of the traffic messages with features of the route it is achieved that only route-specific traffic messages are activated.
  • the features of the route held in the storage device 16 are compared with their route-specific features immediately after new traffic messages are received and, if they match, are switched through to the output device and conveyed to the driver in an optical and / or acoustic manner.
  • the driver therefore does not need to memorize the road types and numerical designations, which is particularly the case for roads that are less familiar to him, in order to then compare them with the incoming traffic news. Rather, he can determine the route before starting the trip using a map or in dialog, e.g. perform in the so-called roll mode with a suitably trained vehicle receiver.
  • a route encoder determines the local routes that have already been passed with an evaluation circuit and deletes the features relating to these routes.
  • the route encoder and the evaluation circuit can also be designed such that the expected time until the route section is reached is calculated with the traffic disruption and compared in a comparator with a predetermined time. An enable signal is then only delivered to the enable input of the gate circuit if the signal falls below and is at the same time.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the education law for traffic news using an example.
  • the information contained in the traffic news can be divided into certain structures.
  • the abbreviations also used in FIG. 1 are used for the traffic news relating to a fault on any road used.
  • the first specification is A or B and denotes the type of road, namely the motorway or national trunk roads. This is followed by a numerical designation x or y for the number that is followed by the street type.
  • Route guidance names which are identified by the letter E and an index, are used to delimit main sections of the route.
  • the letter M with an index is used to delimit smaller route segments.
  • FIG. 2 in which the route names and the nodes, in the present case, descents, intersections or triangles between Hamburg Stillhorn and Hildesheim Ost, are listed using the A7 motorway as an example.
  • the route R should lead on the A7 from Hildesheim Ost towards Hamburg to Falligbostel.
  • the route is entered first. This can be done menu-driven in roll mode to make operation easier for drivers who are not yet familiar with the process and the system.
  • the main roads i.e. the main sections of the route, or the starting point and the destination can be entered. In the latter case, a processor then automatically becomes an appropriate main line from one Find or calculate the stored number of magistrals and display them as a receipt or, if there are several options, request a selection and only then acknowledge.
  • the features of the route are now compared with the route-specific features of the digitally coded traffic messages received, in the order as explained in connection with FIG. 1. If the comparison is limited to the road types and the route names, all traffic messages about faults on the A7 between Hanover and Hamburg would be switched through, including traffic messages about a fault S between Evendorf and Garlstorf. If, on the other hand, the route segments between individual exits, intersections or triangles were also taken into account, the traffic message about the fault S would be suppressed, since the destination is ahead of the route segments with the fault S. This also applies if the vehicle crosses the route in the opposite direction, i.e. from Hamburg towards Hanover.
  • the travel time needed to Evendorf would be determined if the traffic news about the disturbance was transmitted.
  • This travel time is now compared with a predetermined comparison time, which e.g. corresponds to the usual cycle by repeating traffic messages. With the assumed constellation, the expected travel time will be longer than the comparison time and the traffic news will be suppressed.
  • Fig. 3 shows a vehicle receiver, in addition to the usual modules for receiving radio broadcasts has a possible embodiment of the features according to the invention. These features relate to a decoder 10, which combines several modules, an output device 12, an input device 14, a memory device 16, a comparator 18 within a control circuit 20 and a gate circuit 26, the enable input 24 of which is connected to a parity output 22 of the comparator 18 . In addition, a route encoder 44 and an evaluation circuit 46 for driving data can also be provided.
  • the features of the route are entered into the storage device 16 via the input device 14. To facilitate operation, this is done in dialog with a processor 48, which issues 50 queries or receipts via a display.
  • the characteristics of the travel route stored in the memory device 16 are fed to an input 52 of the comparator 18.
  • Another input 36 of the comparator 18 receives route-specific features when the traffic news arrives via an output 34 of a memory 28. If the features at the inputs 36 and 52 then match, the enable input 24 of the gate circuit 26 is controlled via the parity output 22.
  • a display 60 for the optical reproduction of the traffic news can also be provided and controlled.
  • the route-specific features occurring at the output 34 of the memory 28 are generated by hierarchically stored data in the memory 28, from which the features are obtained by controlling appropriate memory locations via address inputs 30 by an RDS evaluation circuit 32.
  • the RDS evaluation circuit 32 is fed with the signal at the output of an FM IF stage 62 of the receiver and evaluates the RDS signal of the subcarrier broadcast with the normal radio program.
  • the memory 28 is arranged hierarchically in order to limit the storage space requirement and is divided into main areas 38, intermediate areas 40 and sub-areas 42.
  • the streets are of the same street type and the same numerical Labeling summarized.
  • the route names are summarized in the intermediate areas 40, one or more of which are each assigned to the main areas 38.
  • the sub-areas 42 contain the nodes, for example departures, locations, intersections or triangles. These are in alphabetical or route-related order. The direction of travel then results from the ascending or descending order of the features.
  • the features of the standard texts can also be stored in the memory 28. If this is not the case, the entire message can also take place in the control circuit 20 by decoding and converting the data telegrams evaluated by the RDS evaluation circuit 32. For this purpose, a signal line is also led from the RDS evaluation circuit 32 to an input 64 of the control circuit 20.
  • the travel distance sensor 44 (wheel sensor or tachometer pulse processing) with the evaluation circuit 46 also serves to take into account the distance traveled.
  • the output signals of the evaluation circuit 46 reach an input 66 of the control circuit 20, which determines the characteristics of the route traveled and deletes the characteristics which are no longer current by transmitting control signals to an input 68 of the memory device 16. This can be implemented particularly simply if the memory device 16 operates in the manner of a shift register and is clocked synchronously with the distance traveled.
  • An additional function is achieved by a further comparator 70, the input 72 of which is supplied with the output signals of the evaluation circuit 46 and the other input 74 of which is supplied with a time comparison signal with a predeterminable time ⁇ . If the calculated time is less than or equal to the predetermined time, an enable signal is given to the enable input 24 of the gate circuit 26 via a less than or equal output 76 of the comparator 70.
  • an AND gate 78 is also arranged between the output 22 and the output 76 on the one hand and the enable input 24 on the other hand.
  • the comparators 18 and 70 drawn in the control circuit 20 do not need to be in physical form to be. In a practical implementation, it is rather expedient to provide a computer which carries out the functions described in a program-controlled manner.
  • the functions of other modules can also be included.
  • the RDS evaluation circuit 32, the processor 48, the speech processor 54 and the evaluation circuit 46 are suitable. However, due to the better clarity, these modules have also not been graphically integrated into the control circuit 20.

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  1. Récepteur pour véhicule avec un décodeur (10) servant à décoder des informations sur le trafic reçues en code numérique, avec un système de délivrance visuel et/ou acoustique (12) pour des informations sur le trafic et avec une entrée de données (14) et un système de mémoire (16) pour des caractéristiques propres à l'itinéraire, récepteur pour véhicule caractérisé en ce qu'un circuit de commande (20) comprenant un comparateur (18) est relié au système de mémoire (16), circuit de commande pour des caractéristiques propres au trajet et des informations sur le trafic avec des caractéristiques de l'itinéraire, et en ce qu'une sortie de parité (22) du comparateur (18) est reliée a une entrée de liberation (24) d'un circuit ET (26) entre le décodeur (10) et le système de délivrance (12).
  2. Récepteur pour véhicule selon la revendica-tion 1, caractérisé en ce que des emplacements d'une mémoire (28) contiennent des caractéristiques, propres au trajet, d'une zone concernée par les informations sur le trafic, en ce que des entrées d'adresse (30) de la mémoire (28) sont reliées a un circuit d'exploitation (32) pour les fractions, propres au trajet, des informations codées sur le trafic, et en ce que des sorties (34) de la mémoire (28) sont reliées aux entrées (36) du comparateur (18).
  3. Récepteur pour véhicule selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que les emplacements de la mémoire (18) sont subdivisés en zones dans lesquelles sont rassemblées des zones ou des emplacements de mémoire pour des sous-ensembles.
  4. Récepteur pour véhicule selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les emplacements de mémoire sont subdivisés en zones principales (38) pour des types de route différents et pour leurs references numériques ainsi que, le cas échéant, pour le sens de la marche.
  5. Récepteur pour véhicule selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que les zones principales (38) sont subdivisées en zones intermédiaires (40) pour des sections de voies principales.
  6. Récepteur pour véhicule selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que les zones intermédiaires (40) sont subdivisées en sous-zones (42) pour des segments de voies.
  7. Récepteur pour véhicule selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications 4 à 6, caractérisé en ce que les types de routes, les références numériques, les sections de voies principales, ou les segments de voies sont rangés de façon unitaire en ordre croissant ou décroissant par rapport à un sens de marche.
  8. Récepteur pour véhicule selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que l'on prévoit un détecteur de trajet (44) avec un circuit d'exploitation (46), détecteur qui est relié par l'intermédiaire du circuit d'exploitation (20) à la mémoire (28), contenant les caractéristiques propres à l'itinéraire, qui ont été mises en mémoire, de telle façon que les caractéristiques correspondant aux trajets déjà parcourus puissent être effacées.
  9. Récepteur pour véhicule selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que le détecteur de trajet (44) est constitué avec le circuit d'exploitation (46) pour déterminer une vitesse moyenne et/ou une vitesse momentanée ainsi que pour calculer le temps nécessaire pour atteindre la section de trajet présentant une perturbation de trafic, et en ce qu'une sortie petite ou égale du comparateur de temps est reliée, par l'intermédiaire d'un élément logique de combinaison, à l'entrée de libération (24) du circuit ET (26).
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