JP2021189309A - Departure guide display device - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a departure guide display device capable of displaying departure vehicle information for each stopover at which a vehicle stops in the middle of a destination.SOLUTION: In a display screen 13 for each stopover, a display area 13c for each major stopover is divided through a display section 13d as a header. Each departure vehicle information 13a displayed under the display section 13d displaying the names of major stopovers is composed of departure time, destination, and departure platform in this order, and a processing unit extracts departure vehicle information 13a whose stopover is a predetermined stopover and whose departure time is after the current time 13b from a timetable database, and then displays the departure times in order from earliest. A user whose destination is a major stopover can easily check the departure vehicle information 13a on a vehicle to be stopped at the stopover, and the user can quickly head to a departure platform of a departure vehicle.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

The present invention relates to a departure guidance display device for displaying departure guidance information in a bus terminal or the like.

Patent Document 1 includes a fixed terminal installed in an easily visible place such as a plaza or a passage where many users move in a bus terminal, and displays a departure time, a destination, and a landing number in order of departure time on an information display screen. It has been disclosed.

Users whose destination is the destination can easily grasp the departure time and platform by checking the departure information on the information display screen, and can purchase a ticket for the bus to board or head to the platform. can.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2008-157870

However, for users whose destination is a stopover or a stop in the middle of the destination, the stopover is not displayed on the information display screen, so the destination bus that stops at the destination must be remembered in advance or the route. After checking the figures, etc., you will get on the bus that stops at the waypoint displayed on the information display screen.

If you don't remember the destination bus that stops at your destination stop, or if you have multiple destination buses that stop at your destination stop, which destination bus is best for you? The problem arises that you don't know if it exists.

Further, by the user operating the mobile terminal as shown in Patent Document 1, it is possible to search for the bus that departs earliest from the buses that stop at the stopover, but such a function is provided. There are many users who have mobile terminals that they do not have, and users who do not have mobile terminals themselves. These users will obtain the departure guidance information of the bus departing only from the information display screen of the fixed terminal described above.

Furthermore, while the user is checking the stopover on the route map, etc., or searching for a bus that stops at the stopover on the mobile terminal, the bus that stops at the stopover departs from the departure platform. There is also the problem of getting rid of it.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide a departure guidance display device that displays departure guidance information for each waypoint that stops in the middle of a destination.

The departure guidance display device according to the present invention for achieving the above object stores a database of departure vehicle information including at least a destination, a destination including the destination, one or more waypoints, and a departure time. A departure guidance display device including a display unit that is connected to a control unit to display the departure vehicle information as departure guidance information. It is characterized in that the destination and the departure time of the departure vehicle information stopped at the waypoint are displayed in the order of the departure time.

According to the departure guidance display device according to the present invention, the departure vehicle information is displayed on the display screen for each major stopover, so that the user whose destination is the stopover can use the departure vehicle information of the vehicle stopped at the stopover. Can be easily confirmed, and it is possible to quickly head to the departure platform of the departure flight.

It is a block block diagram. It is explanatory drawing of the display screen for each destination direction. It is explanatory drawing of the display screen for each waypoint of a fixed display type. It is explanatory drawing of the display screen for each waypoint of a variable display type.

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the illustrated examples.
FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a departure guidance display system including a departure guidance display device, and the departure guidance display system provides information such as a destination and a departure time to a user via a display screen. And the control unit C1 and the operation unit C2 installed in the control room C.

The departure guidance display device 10 is installed in a relatively wide area of the bus terminal T, for example, in a place that is easy for the user to see, and is wired or wirelessly connected to the display unit 11 that displays the departure guidance information and the control unit C1 of the management room C. It is composed of a screen control unit 12 that receives transmission information such as display command information and controls the display of video signals to the display unit 11.

As the display unit 11, for example, a color liquid crystal display having a large display screen 13 having a width of about 2 m, an LED display, or the like is used, and for the screen control unit 12, for example, a built-in personal computer is used. The control unit C1 of the control room C may be provided with the function of the screen control unit 12. In this case, the control unit C1 directly transmits the transmission information consisting of the video signal to the display unit 11 by wire or wirelessly. Will be done.

As the control unit C1 in the management room C, for example, a general-purpose PC is used, and the storage unit C1a for storing the diamond database D which is the original data of the departure guidance information to be displayed on the display screen 13, the storage unit C1a, and the operation unit C1a. It is composed of a processing unit C1b which is connected to the unit C2 and further connected to the departure guidance display device 10 via a wired or wireless connection. The diamond database D may be periodically received from the central center device or the like and stored in the storage unit C1a by using another network.

The processing unit C1b has a timetable creation function for creating, changing, adding, deleting, etc., departure vehicle information 13a for the timetable database D stored in the storage unit C1a based on the input from the operation unit C2, and a departure guide. It is equipped with a departure guidance information output function that outputs departure guidance information including departure vehicle information 13a and the like to be displayed on the display screen 13 of the display device 10 as image data and display command data.

The operation unit C2 for connecting the processing unit C1b is used by the operator, and includes a monitor unit C2a for displaying the display contents of the departure guidance display device 10 and various data of the diagram database D, and a keyboard and a mouse for inputting each processing. It is composed of an input unit C2b including.

By using the operation unit C2, the operator can instruct the display unit 11 to confirm the departure guidance information, change the display content, correct the information, and the like. In this embodiment, one set of control unit C1 and operation unit C2 is installed for one departure guidance display device 10, but a plurality of departure guidance display devices 10 are operated by one set of control unit C1 and operation. The display may be controlled by the unit C2.

Further, in addition to the management room C, the control unit C1 and the operation unit C2 may be appropriately installed in a ticket vending machine or the like, or a plurality of operation units C2 may be connected to one control unit C1. good. Further, the control unit C1 may be arranged inside the departure guidance display device 10, and in such a case, only the operation unit C2 is installed outside the control room C or the like.

The timetable database D stored in the storage unit C1a is, for example, departure vehicle information including data of vehicle number D1, destination direction D2, destination D3, waypoint D4, departure time D5, destination and waypoint arrival time D6, and departure landing D7. 13a has a database of all departure flights for each weekday and holiday.

Further, the waypoint D4 is not only an individual stop that stops on the route of each destination D3, but also one area in which a plurality of stops are grouped as a waypoint, for example, "Makuhari" which is a continuous stop. It is also possible to group the bus stops of "Kaihin Station, Hotel Makuhari, Makuhari Baytown" and store them in the timetable database D as a stopover point of "Makuhari", which is one area. When the waypoint D4 is stored in this way, the arrival time of the representative stop or the first stop to arrive is stored in the arrival time D6 of the waypoint.

The diamond database D has a data structure capable of extracting the corresponding departure vehicle information 13a for the destination direction D2 and the waypoint D4 as appropriate. The processing unit C1b sorts the departure vehicle information 13a in which the departure time D5 is after the current time from the diamond database D and the departure vehicle information 13a including the departure time D5 within a predetermined time with respect to the departure time, and FIGS. The departure guidance information of the display screen 13 shown in FIG. 4 is created and displayed on the display unit 11.

FIG. 2 is a display example of departure guidance information for each destination direction displayed on the display screen 13, for example, the current time 13b and the departure vehicle information 13a in one column and nine stages are displayed in two columns, and a total of 18 is displayed. The departure vehicle information 13a and the like are displayed. The number of display stages and the number of display columns of the departure vehicle information 13a can be appropriately changed and set by a command from the control unit C1 within a range in which the user can recognize the characters.

The number of bus departures varies greatly depending on the time of day, with short-distance buses being more common during the day and long-distance buses increasing at midnight. For this reason, during a rush hour when the number of departure flights is large, the characters of the departure vehicle information 13a are displayed in small characters, for example, the number of displayed lines is increased, and when the number of departure flights is low or the number of departures at sunrise is low, the characters are displayed in large characters. It is also possible to reduce the number of displayed lines.

Alternatively, it is also possible to set the number of display columns and the display column for each time zone in advance, and perform a process of changing the number of display columns and the display column that can be displayed according to the current time. It should be noted that these display processes also correspond to the display screen 13 for each waypoint, which will be described later.

In the display screen 13 for each destination shown in FIG. 2, each destination is divided into, for example, the display area 13c of the Chiba area display area and the Yamanashi area display area via the display category 13d as a header. The number of destination direction D2 can be appropriately set, and when the number of destination direction D2 is large, the display screen 13 is displayed while being switched at predetermined time intervals.

In the display area 13c, a color-coded character color or a background color is displayed for easy understanding for each destination direction, and below the display category 13d in the display area 13c, the destination direction D2 of the display category 13d is displayed. The departure vehicle information 13a of the included destination D3 is displayed.

Each departure vehicle information 13a displayed under the display category 13d displaying the destination direction D2 is configured in the order of, for example, the departure time D5, the destination D3, and the departure landing D7. Departure vehicle information 13a, which is the predetermined destination direction D2 and whose departure time D5 is after the current time 13b, is extracted and displayed in the order of earliest departure time D5.

Further, in the display area 13c for each destination, the display area 13c is partitioned and controlled by the control unit C1 so that the departure vehicle information 13a of at least one vehicle is displayed, and the display number of the departure vehicle information 13a is fixed in advance. You may set it.

Alternatively, the departure vehicle information 13a included within a predetermined time, for example, 2 hours with respect to the current time 13b at the departure time D5 is extracted from the timetable database D, and a display area for each destination is obtained according to the extracted number of departures. The composition ratio of 13c may be set.

FIG. 3 is a display example of departure guidance information for each waypoint where the display area 13c is a fixed display type, and the display screen 13 displays the display area 13c for each major waypoint, for example, the Kisarazu bus terminal or the Hachioji interchange. The area 13c is divided into the display division 13d as a header.

The main waypoints D4 to be displayed for each waypoint can be appropriately selected and set according to the number of users. If the number of main waypoints D4 to be displayed is large, the predetermined time The display is displayed while switching the display screen 13 each time.

Each departure vehicle information 13a displayed under the display category 13d displaying the names of the main waypoints is composed of the departure time D5, the destination D3, and the departure place D7 in this order. Departure vehicle information 13a, which is a predetermined waypoint D4 and whose departure time D5 is after the current time 13b, is extracted, and the departure time D5 is displayed in the order of earliest.

In the display area 13c for each waypoint shown in FIG. 3, the number of departure vehicle information 13a displayed for the main waypoint D4 is fixedly set in advance. For example, the departure time is set in the display area 13c of each waypoint D4. The departure vehicle information 13a for two flights is displayed in the order of the earliest D5.

Further, the number of displayed fixed departure vehicle information 13a is, for example, a display area 13c for three flights in the waypoint D4 where many vehicles are stopped, and a display for one flight in the waypoint D4 where there are few stopped vehicles. It is also possible to adjust the area 13c as appropriate.

FIG. 4 is a display example of departure guidance information for each waypoint where the display area 13c is a variable display type, and on the display screen 13, as in FIG. 3, the display category 13d which is a header for each main waypoint is used. It is divided.

In the display area 13c for each waypoint shown in FIG. 4, the departure vehicle information 13a that stops at the main waypoint D4 is extracted and extracted from the departure vehicle information 13a that departs within a predetermined time with respect to the current time 13b. The number of departure vehicle information 13a displayed in the display area 13c for the main waypoint D4 is changed at any time according to the number of departure flights. In FIG. 4, the departure vehicle information 13a that stops at the Kisarazu bus terminal, which has a large number of departure flights, is displayed in large numbers in the display area 13c.

Further, in the display for each waypoint shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the display area 13c to be displayed for each main waypoint is displayed separately for each destination. That is, the display division 13d and the departure vehicle information 13a of the waypoint D4 of the Kisarazu bus terminal and Kaihin Makuhari station where the destination direction D2 is the direction of Chiba are combined into one display area 13c, and the destination direction D2 is the direction of Yamanashi Hachioji. The display category 13d and the departure vehicle information 13a of the waypoint D4 of the interchange and Mt. Fuji station are collectively displayed in another display area 13c.

Further, the display area 13c is displayed with a color-coded character color or background color for each waypoint D4 for easy understanding, and can be further divided for each destination area grouped in one display area. .. For example, the background color of the display area 13c in the direction of Chiba may be yellow, the background color of the display area 13c in the direction of Yamanashi may be blue, and the character color may be changed for each waypoint.

Further, in the display for each waypoint in FIGS. 3 and 4, it is also possible to display the main waypoints D4 including the departure vehicle information 13a whose departure time D5 is earlier than the current time 13b in order from the top.

In such a case, the display category 13d where the stopover D4 for Chiba Station, which has the earliest departure time, is Kaihin Makuhari Station and the departure vehicle information 13a are displayed at the top, and the departure for Chiba Station at 12:00 is after departure. The display category 13d and the departure vehicle information 13a where the waypoint D4 for Kimitsu station is the Kimitsu bus terminal will be displayed at the top.

Further, from the departure vehicle information 13a that departs within a predetermined time with respect to the current time 13b, the departure vehicle information 13a that stops at the main waypoint D4 is extracted, and the main waypoint D4 having a large number of extracted departure flights is extracted. It can also be displayed in order from the top. This is because the larger the number of departures, the larger the number of users, so that the departure vehicle information 13a of the waypoint D4, which has many users, is displayed at a position that is easily visible. Furthermore, it is also possible to display the main waypoints D4 in the order of "aiueo".

Further, although not shown, a simplified map is drawn on a part of the display screen 13 for each destination shown in FIG. 2 or on a part of the display screen 13 for each waypoint in FIGS. 3 and 4. By color-coding by direction or waypoint and matching this color-code with the color of display category 13d, the user can see the map and know the color of the destination direction D2 or the main waypoint D4 of the destination. The target bus can be immediately found from the display category 13d of the same color.

Further, for the departure vehicle information 13a whose departure time is approaching, the departure mark 13e displayed next to the display area 13c is lit. The color of the departure mark 13e is conspicuous, and it is preferable that the brightness is high. Further, the departure mark 13e may be blinked, and for example, the display may be controlled so that the bus lights up when the bus arrives at the departure platform D7 and blinks one minute before the departure.

If there is a delay in the departing vehicle, information information consisting of characters such as "10 minutes late" can be displayed in the blank space between the destination D3 and the departure platform D7 in the departure vehicle information 13a. ..

Normally, the departure vehicle information 13a for which the departure time D5 has passed is deleted from the display area 13c, and the departure vehicle information 13a advanced by one step is displayed, but the above-mentioned delay occurs. In this case, the display of the departure vehicle information 13a is maintained even after the departure time D5 has passed.

Further, the deletion of the departure vehicle information 13a from the display area 13c may be deleted in conjunction with the vehicle detection means provided at the departure landing D7. When it is determined by the vehicle detecting means that the vehicle has departed, the departure vehicle information 13a is deleted from the display area 13c.

In addition, if there is no flight departing at that sunrise after the current time 13b, information information consisting of characters such as "All flights departing at this sunrise has been completed" is displayed at the place where the departure vehicle information 13a is displayed. It is also possible to display instead of.

In addition to the departure time D5, the destination D3, and the departure platform D7, the departure vehicle information 13a displayed on the display screen 13 for each destination and waypoint includes appropriate information in the timetable database D, for example, the destination D3 and the waypoint. It is also possible to display the arrival time D6 of D4 together.

In such a case, the display screen 13 for each destination will display the estimated arrival time of the destination D3, and the display screen 13 for each waypoint will display the estimated arrival time of the waypoint D4.

Further, the departure platform D7 does not necessarily have to be a number, but may be a character such as an east exit or a south exit. Furthermore, if there is only one departure platform D7, or if the departure platform D7 is fixed for each destination, it is not always necessary to display the departure platform D7 in the display area 13c.

The departure guidance display device 10 can alternately display the display for each destination direction shown in FIG. 2 and the display for each waypoint in FIGS. 3 and 4, and the two departure guidance display devices 10 are arranged side by side. In this case, one departure guidance display device 10 alternately displays the display for each destination and the display for each waypoint, and the other departure guidance display device 10 alternately displays the display for each waypoint and the display for each destination. You may let it.

Further, a part of the plurality of departure guidance display devices 10 may be made to display only the destination direction, and a part may be made to display only the waypoint. When three or more departure guidance display devices 10 are installed, the destination is based on the ratio between the number of departure flights of the departure vehicle information 13a displayed for each destination and the number of departure flights of the departure vehicle information 13a displayed for each waypoint. The number of units displaying the display for each direction and the number of units displaying the display for each waypoint may be appropriately changed.

Further, although this embodiment has been described using a bus system traveling on a bus route, it can also be applied to a transportation system such as a train traveling on a railway line.

As described above, according to the departure guidance display device 10 according to the present embodiment, the departure vehicle information 13a is displayed on the display screen 13 for each major waypoint, so that the user whose destination is the main waypoint D4 can use it. The departure vehicle information 13a of the vehicle stopped at the waypoint D4 can be easily confirmed, and the departure flight can quickly head to the departure platform D7.

10 Departure guidance display device 11 Display unit 13 Display screen 13a Departure vehicle information 13c Display area C1 Control unit D Diamond database

Claims (12)

Connects to a control unit that stores departure vehicle information including at least one destination, one or more waypoints, and departure time in a database, and displays the departure vehicle information as departure guidance information. It is a departure guidance display device provided with a display unit to be used.
The display unit is characterized in that the destination and the departure time of the departure vehicle information stopped at the waypoint in the display area are displayed in the main display area for each waypoint in the order of the departure time. Departure information display device. The display unit is characterized in that the destination and the departure time of the departure vehicle information including the destination direction of the display area are displayed in the display area for each destination direction in the order of the departure time. Departure guidance display device described in. The departure guidance display device according to claim 2, wherein the display unit alternately and repeatedly displays the display for each waypoint and the display for each destination. The departure vehicle information includes the arrival time of the destination.
The departure guidance display device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein in the display for each destination, the arrival time of the destination is displayed in addition to the display of the destination and the departure time. The display according to the waypoint is described in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the number of displayed departure vehicle information in the display area corresponding to the main waypoint is fixed in advance. Departure information display device. In the display by waypoint, the departure vehicle information that stops at the main waypoint is extracted from the departure vehicle information that departs within a predetermined time with respect to the current time, and the information is extracted according to the number of departure flights. The departure guidance display device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the number of display of the departure vehicle information in the display area for the main waypoint is changed. In the display for each waypoint, the departure vehicle information that stops at the main waypoint is extracted from the departure vehicle information that departs within a predetermined time with respect to the current time, and the departure time is earlier. The departure guidance display device according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the vehicle information is displayed from above in the order of the main waypoints including the vehicle information. In the display by waypoint, the departure vehicle information that stops at the main waypoint is extracted from the departure vehicle information that departs within a predetermined time with respect to the current time, and the extracted main departure vehicle number is large. The departure guidance display device according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the display is performed from above in the order of the waypoints. The departure guide according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein in the display by waypoint, the display area to be displayed by the main waypoint is displayed separately for each destination. Display device. The departure vehicle information includes the arrival time of the stopover.
The departure guide according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the display for each waypoint displays the arrival time of the waypoint in addition to the display of the destination and the departure time. Display device. The departure vehicle information includes the departure platform.
The departure guidance display device according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the departure platform is displayed together with the display of the destination and the departure time. The departure guide according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the waypoint includes a waypoint having a plurality of stops on the route to the destination as one area. Display device.

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