JP2000132790A - Device and method for generating aspect step drawing for signal aspect investigation report - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the aspect step drawing generating device which can automatically or semiautomatically generate drawing data of an aspect step drawing to be entered into a signal aspect investigation statement. SOLUTION: The generating device which generates the drawing data of the aspect step drawing to be entered into the investigation report is provided with a drawing data generating means 19 which discriminates respective elements of the aspect step drawing from aspect step data and performs the macro development of them to automatically generate the drawing data of the aspect step drawing for the investigation report. The drawing data of the aspect step drawing can be generated directly by logically analyzing the aspect step data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for creating drawing data for describing a presenting ladder diagram in a signal presenting investigation report of a trial reference material, and more particularly to a signal presenting investigation. This reduces the burden of writing documents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Data of a present cycle in which a traffic light is switched to red, blue, yellow or the like is collected and recorded and managed in a center. Further, the present floor plan showing the present cycle of the signal light is used for the maintenance management of the signal light.

[0003] In addition, in a case of a traffic accident or a traffic offense that occurred near an intersection, a traffic light inspection report (hereinafter referred to as a research report) displaying a traffic light display floor plan at the time of the accident is a reference material. As submitted to the court by the police.

[0006] FIG. 6 shows this survey report, which shows the location of the intersection, the date and time, and the current ladder diagram of the traffic light at the intersection.

[0005] The name of the signal light is displayed on the vertical axis of the present floor plan, "1P" indicates a pedestrian (P) signal light on the main road (1), and "" indicates a vehicle on the main road. "1A" indicates a right turn signal light on the main road, "2P" indicates a pedestrian signal light on the secondary road (2), and "" indicates a vehicle signal light on the secondary road. On the horizontal axis, the number of steps indicating the switching stage of the present state of each signal light is displayed.
In addition, the horizontal line in the present ladder diagram, the bold line indicates the signal display period of blue, the double line is red, the wavy line is yellow, the thick dotted line is blinking blue for pedestrians, and the arrow is the signal display period of the arrow signal. Is shown.
The second described for each step indicates the duration of each step in seconds. In addition, the numbers described alongside the horizontal lines and double lines in the present floor plan represent the signal display time in seconds.

[0006] The present ladder diagram is created from the present ladder data recorded at the center at the relevant date and time of the traffic light. The corresponding data can be obtained in the form of a file or a printout thereof.

FIG. 7 shows a display example in which the present ladder data taken from a file is displayed on a screen. here,
“1PG 9 S” “1PG 12 V” “1PG 22
S ”‥ corresponds to steps 1, 2, 3, and ‥, respectively. Regarding a signal light whose present state changes last at each step, the signal light name and display color, the duration of the step,
And the setting type of the continuation time. In “1PG9 S” corresponding to step 1, 1P is a signal light name (main road pedestrian traffic light), G is a blue display color, 9 is the duration of step 1 for 9 seconds, and S is this duration. The present state ends with the transition to Step 2. The display color W is blinking blue, Y is yellow,
R represents red, and V of the duration setting type is a variable length (the remaining time obtained by subtracting the other present time from the cycle length).
And% represents a time corresponding to a fixed ratio of the cycle length. Also, a right turn signal is displayed in a column (2) next to the signal display for pedestrians and vehicles on the main road, and a signal display for pedestrians and vehicles on the next road (3). As described above, the columns are described separately.

“1G 3%” corresponding to the fifth step
Is indicated, and the blue display of the traffic light for the main road vehicle,
This indicates that the process is continued from the first step to the fifth step, and is switched in the next step. The time during which a pedestrian can walk is 46 seconds from 1PG to 1PW, and
The time during which the vehicle is allowed to travel straight is 52 seconds from 1PG to 1Y.

At present, this survey report is created by a police officer using a word processor capable of displaying and printing the document format of the survey report. The present ladder diagram is created by referring to the present ladder data. I'm typing in a word processor.

[0010]

However, the work of describing the present floor plan in a survey requires a lot of effort, and when it is necessary to prepare more than 10 surveys a day, A considerable burden. Also,
In such a case, transcription errors are likely to occur frequently.

The present invention is to solve such a conventional problem, and provides an apparatus for creating a displayed ladder diagram which can automatically or semi-automatically generate drawing data of a ladder diagram to be filled in a survey. It also aims to provide a method of making the same.

[0012]

Therefore, according to the present invention, each element of the present ladder diagram is identified from the present ladder data and macro-developed to create drawing data of the presenter ladder diagram for the survey. ing.

Therefore, it is possible to directly create the drawing data of the presenting ladder diagram for the survey form from the presenting ladder data.

In the present invention, the present ladder diagram is created by a bitmap, and the present ladder diagram is macro-developed into graphic ruled lines to create drawing data of the present ladder diagram for a survey.

In the case of an individual, after displaying and confirming the created present ladder diagram, it can be converted into drawing data of the presenting ladder diagram for a survey.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention according to claim 1 of the present invention is directed to a creating apparatus for creating drawing data of a present floor plan described in a survey report, wherein each of the present floor plans is converted from the present floor data. It is provided with a drawing data creation means for identifying elements, developing them macro, and automatically creating drawing data of the presently-stored ladder diagram for the survey report. It is possible to directly create drawing data of the indicated ladder diagram.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the drawing data creating means obtains the number of columns and rows of the current floor plan from the number of steps and the number of signal lights of the current floor data, and forms the framework of the current floor plan. Create drawing data, identify the steps where the respective display color of each signal light is displayed from the present ladder data,
The drawing data of the graphic ruled line representing the display color is created, and the drawing data of the presenting ladder diagram for the survey is created from the presenting ladder data.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the drawing data creating means calculates the duration of the display color by adding each step time of the step in which the display color is displayed, and displays the duration of the display color attached to the graphic ruled line. The drawing data of the duration is created, and the drawing data indicating the duration of the signal display can be automatically created.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the drawing data creating means identifies all red times from the presently displayed step data and creates drawing data for displaying all red times based on the identification result. Thus, it is possible to automatically create drawing data indicating all red times during which neither pedestrians nor vehicles can pass.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a creating apparatus for creating drawing data of a present ladder diagram described in a survey report, wherein the present ladder diagram creating means is provided for creating the present ladder diagram with a bitmap. And a drawing data creating means for creating drawing data of the presenting ladder diagram for the survey by macro-expanding the present ladder diagram created by the bitmap into graphic ruled lines,
After displaying and confirming the created present ladder diagram, it can be converted to create drawing data of the survey report present ladder diagram.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, the present ladder diagram creating means automatically creates the present ladder diagram based on a combination of the signal light type of the main road and the signal light type of the slave road. Yes, it is possible to automatically create a current floor plan of a signal light with a standard pattern using a bitmap.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the present invention is characterized in that the present ladder diagram creating means semi-automatically creates the present ladder diagram through manual operation, and presents an intersection which deviates from the standard pattern. You can create a ladder map manually.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for creating drawing data of a present ladder diagram described in a survey report, wherein each element of the present ladder diagram is identified from the present ladder data to identify them. Macro expansion and drawing data of the present ladder diagram are created. Directly from the present ladder data,
It is possible to create the drawing data of the present floor plan for the survey.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, the number of columns and rows of the present ladder diagram is obtained from the number of steps and the number of signal lights of the present ladder data, and drawing data of the framework of the present ladder diagram is created. The step of displaying the display color of each signal light is identified from the displayed ladder data, and drawing data of a figure ruled line representing the display color is created. It is possible to directly create drawing data of the indicated ladder diagram.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, the duration of the display color is calculated by adding each step time of the step in which the display color is displayed, and the drawing data of the duration to be attached to the graphic ruled line and displayed. This is so that the drawing data indicating the duration of the signal display can be automatically created.

[0027] According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, the all red time is identified from the present step data, and drawing data for all red time display is created based on the identification result.
Drawing data for displaying all red times can be automatically created.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, the present ladder diagram is created by a bitmap, and the present ladder diagram created by the bitmap is macro-developed into graphic ruled lines to render the presenter ladder diagram for a survey report. After confirming the created present ladder diagram, drawing data of the survey report present ladder diagram can be created.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the drawing data generating apparatus according to the embodiment includes an input operation means comprising a mouse 11 and a keyboard 12, an event recognition means 13 for identifying an event selected on the screen by the input operation means, A processing control unit 14 that controls the operation of each unit of the device based on an input instruction from the input operation means, a displayed floor ladder automatic creation unit 17 that automatically creates a displayed floor ladder diagram, and a semi-automatic display of the displayed floor ladder diagram. A display ladder manual creation unit 18 to be created, a database 23 storing icons and the like used for manual creation of the display ladder diagram, a display ladder database 21 storing the display ladder data, A first survey drawing data creating unit 19 for creating drawing data for a survey form from the staircase data, and a current story diagram created by the present story ladder automatic creation unit 17 or the present story ladder diagram manual creation unit 18 Create drawing data for surveys from A drawing data creation unit 20 for a survey form to be formed, a drawing data file 22 for a survey form in which the drawing data created by the first and second drawing data creation units 19 and 20 are stored, A display device 16 for displaying the present ladder diagram and the present ladder data, an image memory 15 for temporarily storing the data to be displayed, a map database 24 for storing the map data, and data for each intersection. And a list selection table 25 described in association with the latitude / longitude data.

The operation of this device is shown in the flowchart of FIG.

Step 1: Display the map read from the map database 24 on the display screen of the display device 16, Step 2: or display the list data of intersections stored in the list table 25, Step 3: Investigation form When the intersection to be searched is selected on the map or in the list data with the mouse 11 and the date and time of the survey is input from the keyboard 12, the selected traffic signal is recognized through the event recognition means 13. Then, the processing control unit 14, which has recognized the investigation target date and time by the keyboard input, reads out the corresponding present ladder data from the present ladder database 21 and displays it on the display device 16. In this way, as shown in FIG. 7, the currently displayed ladder data is displayed on the screen.

Step 5: "Documentation" by the operator on the screen
Is selected with the mouse 11, the processing control unit 14
The drawing data creation unit 19 for a survey is started. The activated first survey drawing data creating unit 19 logically analyzes the present ladder data to create present ladder drawing data for a document word processor used for filling out a survey report. Step 10: The created drawing data is stored in the survey drawing data file 22.

Step 6: When the operator selects the item of “ladder diagram” with the mouse 11, the processing control unit 14 determines whether or not automatic creation of the present ladder diagram is possible. (Indicated by a flag), the present-stage-ladder-map automatic creation unit 17 is started, and the present-stage-ladder-map automatic creation unit 17 automatically creates the present-stage ladder diagram using a bitmap.

Step 7: If the current floor plan cannot be automatically created, the processing control unit 14 activates the current floor plan manual creation unit 18 and the operator enters the current floor plan manual creation database. An icon stored in 23 is pasted at a predetermined position, for example, to create a current floor plan.

Step 8: The created present floor plan is displayed on the screen of the display device 16 as shown in FIG.

Step 9: When the operator selects the item of "documentation" from the screen of the present floor plan with the mouse 11, the processing control unit 14 activates the second drawing data creation unit 20 for a survey form. I do. The second survey report drawing data creation unit 20 converts the bitmap figure into a graphic ruled line and creates the present floor plan drawing data for a document word processor used for filling in the survey report. Step 10: The created data is stored in the survey report drawing data file 22.

FIG. 3 shows the operation procedure of the first drawing data creating unit 19 for a survey that is started.

Step 11: When the operator presses the document button on the screen shown in FIG. 7, Step 12: Starts the document word processing software, and Step 13: Calculates the number of steps from the currently displayed ladder data shown in FIG. Then, set the number of columns of the table to display the present ladder diagram, Step 14: Identify the type of signal light, set the number of rows of the table to display the present ladder diagram, Step 15: Set Draw a table with columns and rows of numbers, and issue macro instructions on the document word processing software to fill in the table with the number of steps representing the columns, the signal light name representing the rows, and the number of seconds for each step. .

Step 16: Next, the step in which each display color is displayed for each signal light is obtained from the present step data of FIG. 7, and the corresponding step in the row next to each signal light is assigned to each display color. Issue a macro instruction on the document word processing software to draw with the graphic rule line corresponding to.

Step 17: The duration of each display color is calculated by adding up the number of seconds in the corresponding step, and the document word processing software is displayed so that the calculated value is displayed along the graphic rule of each display color. Issue the above macro instruction.

Step 18: Further, a time zone in which neither pedestrians nor vehicles can pass (all red time) is determined, and among the seconds in each step, the number of seconds of all red time is displayed in parentheses. Issue a macro instruction on the document word processing software.

Step 19: The data that has been macro-expanded in accordance with each macro instruction is stored in the drawing data file 22 for the survey report. Step 20: The document word processing software ends.

Also, the activated present floor ladder diagram automatic creation unit 17 is activated.
Displays a lamp selection operation screen for selecting the type of traffic light on the main road and the type of traffic light on the slave road.From this screen, when the operator selects the type of traffic light on each road, It is displayed on the screen of the display device 16. The operation of the present-stage ladder diagram automatic creation unit 17 is described in detail in the specification of Japanese Patent Application No. 10-287377 previously filed by the group of the inventors of the present invention. Holding the present ladder diagram corresponding to each combination of the traffic light type and the traffic light type of the slave road in advance, and when the combination of the traffic light type of the main road and the slave road is selected from the lamp selection operation screen,
The present ladder diagram uniquely determined by the combination is drawn by a bit map as programmed in advance. Approximately 60% of the intersections perform signal display according to the standard pattern determined by the combination of traffic signal types of the main road and the slave road. Can be created automatically.

If the current floor plan cannot be created automatically,
The present-stage ladder diagram manual creation unit 18 is started and semi-automatically created.
The operation of the present-stage-ladder-map manual creating section 18 is also created in the procedure shown in FIG.

Step 21: When the operator selects manual drawing of the present floor plan, a manual drawing screen is displayed on the display device 16. On a part of this screen, a graphic ruled line icon representing the display color of each signal light, which is stored in the database 23 for manually creating the current floor ladder diagram, is displayed.

Step 22: The operator sets the number of rows and columns in the current floor plan. The present-stage-ladder-manual creating unit 18 creates a frame of the present-stage ladder diagram having the set number of rows and columns, and automatically draws the number of steps in the frame.

Step 23: The operator writes the name of the signal light and the number of seconds of the step from the keyboard in the corresponding portion of this frame. Step 24: Selects the graphic ruled line icon of the signal light display color with the mouse 11, and The drawing start position and the end point position are clicked with the mouse 11, and a signal line display color graphic ruled line icon is pasted to a corresponding portion of this frame.

Step 25: When the present floor plan is completed in this way, the operator presses the register button, and step 26: Saves the present floor plan.

FIG. 8 shows a screen of the display device 16 on which the present floor plan created by the present floor plan automatic preparation unit 17 or the present floor plan manual preparation unit 18 is displayed.

When the "documentation" item is selected with the mouse 11 from the screen on which the present floor plan is displayed, the processing control unit 14
Activates the second survey data drawing data creation unit 20. As shown in FIG. 5, the second survey report drawing data creation unit 20 executes Step 31: When the operator presses a document button from the screen of FIG. 8, Step 32: Starts the document word processing software. Step 33: Issuing a macro instruction on the document word processing software so that the present ladder diagram created by the present ladder diagram automatic creator 17 and the present ladder diagram manual creator 18 is drawn with graphic ruled lines. Step 34: Store the macro-expanded data in accordance with the macro command in the drawing data file 22 for the survey form, and Step 35: terminate the document word processing software.

By reading the drawing data file for survey form created in this way into a word processor for creating a survey form, a current floor plan is displayed on the display screen of the word processor. The person in charge of preparing the survey can add the necessary data and print it out to complete the preparation of the survey.

[0052]

As is apparent from the above description, the present apparatus and method for creating a present ladder diagram according to the present invention can automatically or semi-automatically create drawing data of a present ladder diagram described in a survey report. As a result, the work load for preparing a survey can be greatly reduced, and errors in transcription can be reduced, thereby improving the accuracy of the survey.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a present-stage ladder diagram creating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the present-stage ladder diagram creating apparatus of the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first survey report drawing data creation unit of the embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the presently-stored ladder diagram manual creation unit of the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of a second survey report drawing data creation unit of the embodiment;

FIG. 6 shows an example of a survey report,

FIG. 7 is an example of a screen displaying the present ladder data,

FIG. 8 is an example of a screen displaying a currently displayed ladder diagram.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Mouse 12 Keyboard 13 Event Recognition Means 14 Processing Control Unit 15 Image Memory 16 Display Device 17 Automatically Displaying Current Staircase Diagram 18 Manually Creating Current Staircase Diagram 19 First Drawing Data Creation Unit for Survey Report 20 Second Survey Book drawing data creation unit 21 Present ladder database 22 Survey report drawing data file 23 Present ladder diagram manual creation database 24 Map database 25 List selection table

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Susumu Eguchi 4-3-1 Tsunashima Higashi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hana ▲ saki ▼ Yoshito Kohoku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Koji Tachibana 4-3-1 Tsunashima Higashi 4-chome, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref. Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Ikuo Suyama Kanagawa Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. F term (reference) 5H180 GG01 GG19

Claims (12)

[Claims] An apparatus for creating drawing data of a presenting ladder diagram described in a signal presenting survey, identifying each element of the presenting ladder diagram from the presenting ladder data and macro-expanding them. And a drawing data creating means for automatically creating drawing data of the signal presenting survey report presenting ladder diagram, wherein the signal presenting survey report presenting ladder diagram creating apparatus is provided. 2. The drawing data creating means obtains the number of columns and rows of the presenting ladder diagram from the number of steps and the number of signal lights of the presenting ladder data to create drawing data of the framework of the presenter ladder diagram. 2. The signal display according to claim 1, wherein a step of displaying each display color of each signal light is identified from the display ladder data, and drawing data of a graphic ruled line representing the display color is created. An existing floor ladder diagram creation device for surveys. 3. The drawing data creation means calculates a duration of the display color by adding each step time of a step in which the display color is displayed, and displays the duration with the figure ruled line added thereto. 3. The signal-presentation-report-presenting-story-ladder-map creating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the drawing data of the signal is created. 4. The drawing data creation means according to claim 2, wherein all red time is identified from the present step data, and the drawing data for all red time display is created based on the identification result. A signal floor ladder diagram creation device for traffic signal survey papers. 5. A creating device for creating drawing data of a presenting ladder diagram described in a signal presenting survey, comprising: a presenting ladder diagram creating means for creating a presenting ladder diagram with a bitmap; And a drawing data creating means for creating drawing data of the presenting ladder diagram for the signal presenting survey report by macro-expanding the presenting ladder diagram created in the above into graphic ruled lines. A display ladder diagram creation device. 6. The present floor ladder diagram generating means automatically generates a present floor ladder map based on a combination of a signal light type of a main road and a signal light type of a slave road.
The signal display investigation report presenting ladder diagram creation device described in 1. 7. The present ladder diagram for a signal presenting survey according to claim 5, wherein the present ladder diagram creating means semi-automatically creates the present ladder diagram with manual operation. Creating device. 8. A method for creating drawing data of a presenting ladder diagram described in a signal presenting survey, wherein each element of the presenting ladder diagram is identified from the presenting ladder data and macro-expanded. And drawing data for the present floor plan. 9. The drawing data of the framework of the present ladder diagram is created from the number of steps and the number of signal lights of the present ladder data, and the drawing data of the framework of the present ladder diagram is created. 9. The drawing data creating method according to claim 8, wherein a step of displaying each display color of each signal light is identified, and drawing data of a graphic ruled line representing the display color is created. 10. A drawing data of the duration which is added to each step time of the step in which the display color is displayed to calculate a duration of the display color and is attached to the graphic ruled line and displayed. The drawing data creation method according to claim 9, wherein: 11. The drawing data creation method according to claim 10, wherein all red time is identified from the present ladder data, and drawing data for all red time display is created based on the identification result. 12. A creating method for creating drawing data of a presenting ladder diagram described in a signal presenting investigation report, wherein the presenting ladder diagram is created by a bitmap, and the presenting ladder diagram created by the bitmap is created. A drawing data creation method, which comprises drawing a drawing into a graphic ruled line and creating drawing data of a presenting ladder diagram for a signal presenting survey.