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Definitions

• the invention relates to a user terminal, a computer program product, a signal sequence and a method for summoning a means of locomotion.
• the present invention relates to a simple hardware for ordering means of locomotion, which can also be used by technically inexperienced persons as well as persons with cognitive and sensory restrictions who want to participate in road traffic.
• Rental cars / rental cars, taxi providers, car-sharing pools and neighborhood vehicles increase the average life of each vehicle and thus reduce the traffic density, which conserves energy resources and the environment.
• Many of the above concepts use conventional smartphones on which appropriate applications (“apps") are to be installed to search, reserve, order, perform billing-related operations, make assessments of the means of transportation, and search for parking lots on which the vehicles can be accepted and returned later.
• smartphones are not appropriate end-user hardware. This is partly due to the sometimes expensive purchase as well as the expensive operation (data tariffs) of smartphones.
• data tariffs data tariffs
• smartphones are not appropriate end-user hardware. This is partly due to the sometimes expensive purchase as well as the expensive operation (data tariffs) of smartphones.
• smartphones are difficult or impossible to see.
• the representation of information by numbers and letters requires a corresponding education, which is sometimes not available to fellow citizens from foreign-language foreign countries, for non-educational layers and children in pre-primary and primary school age. As a result, the traffic density according to the prior art is not lowered as much as possible.
• DE 20 2016 004 260 U1 discloses a system for coordinating a plurality of vehicles which serve patient transport. To increase user comfort, will be
• Transport parameters transmitted in digital form already when ordering and Vehicle parameter sets to ensure fulfillment of the purpose of the journey are aligned therewith.
• DE 10 2015 209 190 A1 discloses a method for user-defined provision of a vehicle, in which a trajectory driven autonomously by a means of transportation within a parking facility (for example parking garage) is visualized on a smartphone display of a user.
• http://www.manager-magazin.de/êt/autoindustrie/autonom-fahren-google-sucht- partner-for-robot-car-in-auto-a-1009947.html reveals the idea to users ordering a car via smartphone -App to use the car like a taxi.
• the above object is achieved by a method for summoning a means of transport according to the invention.
• a means of transportation which as a car,
• Transporter, truck, motorcycle, air and / or watercraft can be configured, will be referred to in the further course as "the first means of transportation"
• a user operates an actuator, e.g. A hardware according to the invention, which is also referred to below as a "first user terminal"
• the user terminal can indeed as a conventional smartphone
• a screen can be completely dispensed with, since the present invention enables a reduction of the optical communication between the user and the user terminal based on individual light signals.
• the actuator which may be configured as a software or hardware button, a wireless message is sent by the user terminal, for example, this wireless message can be sent directly to the means of locomotion to be called terrestrial mobile communication, a Wi-Fi hotspot, etc. is interposed.
• a server can also be interposed, which controls the communication between the user terminal or the user terminals and the respective one
• the called-up means of transportation is the User terminal assigned.
• the first means of transportation for the user of the user terminal can be reserved in the context of the method according to the invention.
• a logical connection of the first means of locomotion with the first user terminal. This link is bound in particular to a single purpose of travel (picking up the user at his current position and bringing the user to his destination position) and can be resolved, in particular, once the travel order has been completed.
• an expected arrival time of the means of locomotion is determined at the user terminal. This determination can be made in
• the o.g. Server determine the time until the arrival of the means of locomotion at the user terminal and a
• Means of locomotion in particular arranged in the means of locomotion
• the Navigation system to determine the expected arrival time at the user terminal and send either directly to the user terminal and / or to the server, which in turn sends a corresponding time information to the user terminal.
• the time information may indicate an absolute time of day and, alternatively or additionally, a period of time (e.g., 15 minutes).
• a waiting time (also waiting time duration) determined on the basis of the arrival time or duration is displayed by means of a number of luminous illuminants predefined for the display of the waiting time. According to e.g. In the case of an hourglass, each luminous LED can stand for a certain period of time, so that the sum of the luminous illuminants illustrates the determined waiting time.
• the display of the waiting time can be made such that the number per unit time
• the waiting time is first evenly distributed to all bulbs and turned off after a first portion of the waiting time a first light source, after expiration of a second part of the waiting time a second light off, etc.
• a position of a luminous means of the user terminal be varied depending on the determined waiting time. This variant sometimes corresponds to an analog clock, whose pointer positions are symbolized by the bulb positions.
• a first position can be marked by a first luminous lamp and a second position by a second luminous lamp. The first position can be varied relative to the second position such that the two
• Positions are only congruent or identical after expiry of the waiting period.
• the first position can be fixed.
• both positions can be varied and "meet" at a predefined third position after expiry of the determined waiting time.
• both positions may have in opposite directions a linear or circular trajectory.
• the lighting means can not be arranged in a matrix-like manner with respect to one another and preferably can not be set up to display numbers and / or letters. Further, in particular, the lighting means may not be arranged to display predefined and / or optional shapes and / or symbols.
• a ramp-shaped control of the LEDs can ensure that smooth transitions between illuminated and non-illuminated areas of the light are generated. In this way, the waiting time can be displayed using the simplest hardware and almost no software and thus extremely robust. As a result, small children, retirees, and others can conveniently access means of transportation without having to carry a smartphone or decipher / understand information displayed on a display of a smartphone.
• the means of locomotion can first be selected from a variety of means of transport, which have been logically linked in advance to the user terminal and / or a server.
• the server may be the server of a service provider / taxi company, etc.
• the user terminal may also be linked to the server so that an identity of the owner of the user terminal as well as e.g. Payment modalities and contact details are stored on the server, without necessarily having to be deposited by means of the user terminal. Rather, those with the
• User terminal has linked information required to fetch and carry the user, previously defined by means of a smartphone, a tablet, a personal computer or the like.
• the means of locomotion may be selected in a conventional manner depending on the position of a plurality of means of locomotion in order to allow a shortest possible approach to the user and thus the shortest possible waiting time of the user. This increases the comfort of the user and reduces the emissions that arise for the user.
• Position determination of the first user terminal to be prompted This can be done, for example, by evaluating Wi-Fi hotspots, terrestrial mobile radio signals and / or satellite-based transmitted signals. Unless the user enters
• Smartphone leads with itself can determine the position for example by the
• Smartphone done and a short distance radio link Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE
• the determined position (actual position) of the user terminal is transmitted in the form of a wireless message and used by the first means of locomotion as the starting point of the route to be traveled with the user.
• a data memory may be included, which defines a plurality of predefined start positions. About the different starting positions associated actuation pattern, the user can use the
• Actuator transmit a respective starting place to the means of locomotion. For example, a simple keystroke can pick up at the home address
• a long pressure in turn can arrange a pick-up at the retirement home or other facility. In this way, different ways of defining a starting position for the route to be traveled can be selected.
• destinations can be written to a memory of the user terminal by means of a smartphone, a PC or a tablet.
• Connection can be made with the user terminal.
• One possibility for an electrical connection is a USB or Firewire port, which can be connected to a PC.
• a period e.g., a time of day, particularly a weekday
• a period within which the user terminal is predefined for the arrival of a particular destination may also be determined. Is then determined automatically that the user terminal in the
• the first means of locomotion reads from a memory of
• the user terminal or from an Internet-based / server-based profile where to go.
• This has the advantage that the user (in particular a child / a pensioner / a mentally incapacitated passenger) can not approach a destination other than that defined by a responsible person (e.g., guardian, guardian).
• the user terminal may provide the user without a responsible person (e.g., guardian, guardian).
• the guardian may have one
• Smartphone, a PC, etc., on the server / in a cloud predefine the currently approaching target position, where he linked an identifier / profile of the user terminal with the new destination.
• the means of transport at the server / the cloud can ask if a
• User terminal allows the use of a plurality of LEDs as lighting, which are controlled to emit the light or to display the waiting time.
• the LEDs can be arranged in a linear, circular, following an oval shape, or the like.
• the LEDs can surround the actuating device, preferably enclose. In this way, a user can even in poor visibility
• the plurality of LEDs can, for example, have an optical diffuser which makes it difficult or completely avoids the individual illuminant / LED to be recognizable.
• an update of the expected arrival time can be taken as an opportunity to adjust the time visualized by the user terminal waiting time (update).
• Flashing signal and / or a color change indicator to indicate that the previously expected arrival time of the means of transport has changed due to current circumstances.
• the updated waiting time can be divided among the currently luminous remaining bulbs, in particular in the event that the waiting time is illustrated by a number per time unit perennially lit lamp and the bright remaining light bulbs thus (yes after updated waiting time) and accelerated / or slows down until the expiration of the updated wait time.
• the update of the expected time of arrival or duration is - as described above - usually associated with a significant signaling overhead, which claims the energy resources of the user terminal according to the invention and possibly provided for this purpose data plan of the user.
• an event-based update of the expected time of arrival / duration can take place. For example, after a predefined percentage of the originally determined waiting time has expired, a request can be sent to the server or the entity determining the time of arrival. Alternatively or additionally, a fixed, predefined period of time can be determined before the expiry of the determined waiting time, and a request for updating the expected time of arrival or duration can be sent in response thereto. In response to receiving the request, the
• Means or the server initiate a new route calculation or determine an otherwise updated expected arrival time and send to the user terminal. In this way, the user with low energy and
• the method according to the invention for distinguishing such means of locomotion and user terminals, which are in spatial proximity, is particularly advantageously possible be used to each other.
• One example shows a possible embodiment of the method according to the invention as follows: First of all, a first user terminal is used as described above in order to bring about a first means of locomotion. In addition, a second user terminal is used to invoke a second means of locomotion. The second user terminal can also send a wireless message directly to a second
• Transport means and / or to a predefined server e.g., the server described above in response to which the second means of transportation is the second
• Moving means for emitting light causes, which by the second
• the second user terminal is also caused to emit light whose color is defined by the second color information and the light color emitted by the second means of movement is substantially identical.
• a respective position information of the first user terminal and the second user terminal can be compared with each other. If the positions of the two user terminals deviate sufficiently from one another (for example, the users are in different streets or even in different streets)
• the second color information may be selected such that a predefined minimum color distance to the first color information is maintained. For example, different primary colors through the first and the second
• Color information is thus defined, whereby there is no likelihood of confusion in the event that the first user and the second user wait side by side (for example, at the exit of a fair, kindergarten, or the like) for their respective means of transportation.
• Desired configuration of the means of transport better to the needs of each waiting Be matched user. For example, if a kindergarten child requires a booster seat or a child seat, which is not carried by another means of transportation, a confusion of the approaching vehicles by the user can thwart the purpose of the trip. By a sufficient color distance (at least under a condition of a spatial proximity of the first user and the second user), therefore, the service of the means of transport or their operator can be made fairer and more comfortable.
• a first color information can be assigned to the first user terminal and the first means of locomotion assigned to it.
• a wireless message can be sent to the first means of transport, in which the first color information is contained. This can be done by the user terminal or by a server. Accordingly, a
• Wireless message to the first user terminal e.g., by the server or the
• Means of locomotion in which the first color information is contained.
• Moving means associated with him or his user terminal For this purpose, the user can first see the light emitted by the user terminal and then search the environment for the means of transport, which emits light of the same color. In particular, the user can hold the user terminal in the direction of the approaching means of transportation in order to be able to compare the color tones particularly well with one another. Neither letters have to be deciphered nor understood in order to identify the means of locomotion, e.g. using a number plate to identify. Especially in the dark, the light emitted by the means of locomotion can be easily recognized from a distance, so that the user can possibly change the side of the road in order to ascend as early as possible. If the term "light of a predefined color" is used in the context of the present invention, this also includes a predefined temporal color gradient, a predefined temporal intensity profile and / or a predefined spatial
• a user terminal which can be used in a method as described above.
• the user terminal can be designed as a smartphone, handheld transmitter, or the like.
• a robust, low-volume and inexpensive hardware configuration is to be selected, which comprises an actuating device, a position-determining device, a
• Transceiver device and an evaluation unit (for example, a microcontroller, a
• the evaluation unit is arranged to accept a user input in connection with the actuating device (for example a push button). By the user input the user of the actuating device (for example a push button). By the user input the user of the actuating device (for example a push button).
• the transceiver (e.g., including an antenna) is arranged to transmit a wireless message to invoke a first vehicle in response to the user input associated with the position detector.
• the wireless message can be sent, for example, to a server which handles the switching between the user terminal and the means of locomotion.
• the transceiver device is set up, a confirmation of an assignment of the first means of transportation to the first
• the user terminal according to the invention is set up to determine an expected arrival time or duration until the arrival of the means of locomotion at the user terminal.
• the user terminal can autonomously compare its own position and a current position of the means of transportation with one another and determine the expected arrival time (for example in conjunction with digital map material and / or traffic flow analysis data). This process may alternatively or additionally take place on a server and / or in the expected means of transportation. Alternatively or additionally, the
• User terminal be configured to receive a wireless message (from the means of transport and / or from the server) and from this to determine the expected arrival time or duration until the arrival of the means of transport. Depending on the current time of day, the waiting time for the user can now be determined
• a corresponding number of luminous bulbs is used in the user terminal.
• the predefined number is a corresponding number of luminous bulbs.
• the waiting time can be determined by a number of lighting means to be switched off per time unit (for example, starting from a control all the illuminants provided for this purpose) or a number of luminous means to be switched on per unit time (starting from a state in which all luminous means provided for this purpose are switched off).
• a predefined position of a single luminous means or of a predefined (in particular immutable) group of luminous means corresponding to a pointer of a clock can be used to indicate the waiting time.
• the lighting means may also be arranged to emit light whose color is defined by the color information, whereby an optical association between the user terminal and the means of locomotion takes place.
• the user terminal is set up in response to the sending of a wireless message to a driving service characterizing a time information to be assigned a waiting time from the driver and the waiting time until the arrival of the
• the user terminal according to the invention can be used in conjunction with the
• a computer program product which has instructions which, when executed on an evaluation unit of a user terminal according to the second-named aspect of the invention, cause the evaluation unit to carry out the steps of a method according to the first-mentioned aspect of the invention.
• the computer program product may be a CD, a DVD, a flash memory, a ROM / RAM, a Blu-ray Disc, etc.
• User terminal are carried out according to the second-mentioned aspect of the invention, cause the evaluation, the steps of a method according to the former
• inventive method can be used; a partially cutaway view of an embodiment of the invention user terminal;
• FIGS. 3 to 10 different operating states of lighting means of an exemplary embodiment of a user terminal according to the invention for illustrating a waiting time or an expiry of the waiting time
• 1 1 is a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of a method according to the invention.
• Fig. 1 shows a schoolchild 1 as the first user, which is an autonomously mobile
• a wheelchair suitable manned vehicle To use means of locomotion 10 for the arrival of his dwelling 17 as a destination and a retiree 2 as a second user, a wheelchair suitable manned vehicle
• the schoolchild 1 has a smartphone 15 coupled by means of Bluetooth with a inventively configured user terminal 3, wherein the smartphone 15 is capable of the current position of the schoolchild.
• 1 schoolchildren 1 1 would like to call a retirement home 18 as a destination with the help of a satellite 13 to determine.
• Schoolchild 1 informs.
• the schoolchild 1 presses a button 5 as an actuating device of the user terminal 3, in response to which this sends a wireless message via a transmitting tower 8 to a server 7, which is provided by the operator of the means of locomotion 10, 11, 12 .
• the server 7 determines that the means of locomotion 10 is the schoolchild 1 closest and designed to fulfill the driving task suitable.
• the server 7 determines on which route the means of locomotion 10 will travel to the schoolchild 1 and which travel time this is to be estimated. Optionally this can also be done on current
• Traffic data / traffic flow data is accessed.
• the determined travel time is then via a wireless message from the server via the transmission tower 8 to the
• User terminal 3 of the schoolchild 1 sent, which generates in response thereto by driving individual LEDs of the bulb 6, a display that represents the waiting time.
• a decreasing number of luminous lamps according to FIGS. 3 to 6 is used to signal the schoolchild 1 when it has to reappear at the position 16 at the latest (again) and has to move to the means of locomotion 10.
• the server 7 receives from the user terminal 4 of the pensioner 2 the request to send a patient transport vehicle 1 1, wherein the user terminal 4, the current position of the pensioner 2 independently (by means of a not shown
• Position determining means using the satellite 13 and has included a corresponding information in the wireless message to the server 7. Also for the patient transport vehicle 1 1, a suitable route and an expected time of arrival by the server 7 is calculated as a function of digital map material and optionally using traffic data / traffic flow data, and via the transmitter mast 8
• Illuminant 6 is then the pensioner 2 by changing positions of two LEDs according to FIGS. 7 to 10 illustrates when the ambulance 1 1 will arrive at retiree 2.
• the server 7 also determines the predefined spatial proximity between the schoolchild 1 and the retiree 2, concludes that there is a likelihood of confusion in the event that the approaching vehicles 10, 1 1 get similar color information and looks for a color information for the ambulance 1 1 which differs sufficiently clearly from the color information sent to the automated traveling vehicle 10.
• the user terminal 3 receives an expected arrival time of the locomotion means 10 at the position 16 and the identical color information in response to which a lighting means 6 surrounding the pushbutton 5 shines in a color corresponding to the color information.
• the user terminal 4 receives an expected arrival time of Patient transport vehicle 1 1 and the patient transport vehicle 1 1 sent color information.
• the ambulance has approached 1 1 to about 100m of the position 16 of the retiree 2 and after passing through a building 9 is an optical axis to retiree 2, in response to what the beacon 23 emits light with a color, which is defined by the received color information.
• approaching ambulance 1 1 can identify as determined by itself and can also distinguish from the also approachable automated driving means 10. Also, the light ring 6 of the user terminal 4 shows by a decreasing number of LEDs driven the decreasing time to expected arrival time.
• An eyelet 24 allows easy and secure attachment of the user terminal 3 on the keychain, on a belt loop, or the like, of the user in question to ensure that the user the user terminal 3 can not lose.
• the user terminal 3 can therefore be designed as a key fob.
• a push button 5 as an actuating device is surrounded by a light ring 6, the diffuser is proportionately cut free to show behind it, in a circular ring shape linearly arranged LEDs 6a.
• the LEDs 6a are controlled by means of a programmable processor 20 as an evaluation unit, as soon as the user terminal 3 has been assigned a means of locomotion.
• Corresponding information can be determined by the programmable processor 20 via an antenna 22 for terrestrial mobile communication or for receiving Wi-Fi signals.
• a GPS antenna 21 is provided as a position detection device and also connected to the programmable processor 20 in terms of information technology. Due to the simple hardware which dispenses with a conventional display, an energy store (not shown) of the user terminal 3 can be particularly small and can be charged quickly (for example, inductively).
• the user terminal 3 can be programmed via a USB socket 25, whereby an authorized user picks up destinations and destinations
• User terminal 3 can predefine. Of course, a corresponding programming can also take place via the antenna 22.
• FIG. 3 to 6 show a first embodiment of a user terminal 3 in the form of a key fob, the hardware of which discussed in connection with Fig. 2 Embodiment corresponds substantially.
• Fig. 3 all light emitting diodes (not shown) of the bulb 6 are driven, so that the arranged around the push button 5 ring is fully illuminated.
• the number of LEDs switched on can statically illustrate the waiting time, whereby a completely illuminated ring can stand, for example, for a waiting time of, for example, an hour, a half hour or a quarter of an hour.
• the Fign. 4 to 6 show the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, wherein the lighting means 6 is only partially switched on (decreasing with increasing figure order number).
• the respective configurations shown can either be used to represent the transmitted / determined waiting time or represent a respective state, which occurs with increasing expiry of the waiting time.
• FIGS. 7 to 10 show another embodiment for operating a
• Fig. 1 1 shows steps of an embodiment of a method according to the invention for summoning a first means of locomotion.
• step 100 a user input by means of an actuator of a user terminal according to the invention
• a position determination of the first user terminal is made to determine the starting point of the user's travel for the vehicle.
• the user terminal a wireless communication connection with the smartphone of the
• step 300 the determined position is encoded in data form and sent in step 400 in connection with a wireless message to a server of a mobility service provider.
• step 500 a means of locomotion is defined for a user defined
• step 600 an expected arrival time or a time until the arrival of the means of locomotion at the user terminal is subsequently determined.
• step 700 the expected time of arrival or duration is communicated to the user terminal.
• a wireless communication connection can be used and the
• Time / duration for example, under the intermediation of a terrestrial
• a waiting time determined on the basis of the arrival time or duration on which the user must adjust until the arrival of the means of transportation is indicated by means of a number of luminous bulbs predefined for the display of the waiting time.
• the entirety of the lamps included in the user terminal is made luminous and is gradually cut off linearly until the lapse of the waiting time, whereby an hourglass-like behavior without a need for the user to read the clock or letters / numbers , results.
• step 900 it is determined that the expected time of arrival has been reached. Since no / short-distance (radio) communication signal from the means of locomotion has been received at the user terminal at this time, it is determined in step 900 in the user terminal that needs for
• Update of the expected time of arrival of the means of transport In step 1000, therefore, a request to receive an updated expected time of arrival is sent by the user terminal.
• the expected arrival time is updated in the server and an updated expected arrival time is communicated to the user terminal in response to the updated arrival time at step 1200.
• the number of currently lit illuminants is adjusted such that the sum of the currently lit ones
• Illuminant again illustrates the expected waiting time.
• the number of luminous luminous means is chosen such that a time unit which is symbolized by a respective luminous luminous means multiplied by the number of luminous luminous means yields the current waiting time.

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