JPH08212493A - Information display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To delete the information which is unnecessary for a driver, to efficiently display only necessary information on a display and to reduce the handling labor and time for the operation for scrolling a screen by retrieving information including the keyword stored in a storage means from received information and displaying the information on a display means. CONSTITUTION: When the destination or the routing place, etc., of the present vehicle and the name of the area from which information is to be inputted are inputted by a keyword input part 2, a keyword is converted so as to conform to the format of VICS information by a format converter 3 and is registered as the keyword in a memory part 4. The VICS information received and separated by an FM receiver 1 via an antenna is transmitted to a control part 5. In the control part 5, the keyword of the destination or the routing place, etc., stored in the memory part 4 is read, only the VICS information including this keyword is selected (retrieved) and the information is displayed on a display part 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information system, for example, a VICS information system for providing traffic information to a running vehicle, and more particularly to an information display system for selecting and displaying only necessary information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art VICS (Vehicle Information)
math and Communication
The system information is traffic information (intersection name, road regulation information, traffic congestion information, accident information, etc.) from the FM broadcasting facility in FM multiplex broadcasting and from the transmission facility provided in the roadside band in the radio beacon system and the optical beacon system. Is provided to a moving vehicle. On the vehicle side, a receiver corresponding to the medium for providing VICS information is installed to receive the VICS information and display characters, figures, etc. on the display screen. There is a plurality of VICS information (especially in FM multiplex broadcasting), and the passenger performs an operation of sequentially scrolling the screen displayed on the display, selects the information necessary for himself and displays it on the display. Was.

[0003]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention
When the ICS information is provided, the information about a wide area is provided because the radio wave transmission range is wide. As a result, a lot of information about an area that is not necessary depending on the destination or the traveling route of the passenger will be received. Therefore, the passenger needs to scroll the screen sequentially from among the many VICS information received and displayed on the display to select and display the necessary information.

It is an object of the present invention to eliminate unnecessary information for passengers as much as possible and to efficiently display only necessary information on a display, thereby reducing the trouble of scrolling the screen.

[0005]

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a receiving device for receiving information, a display device for displaying the received information, a storage device for storing a desired keyword, and the receiving device. It is characterized in that a search means for searching the information including the keyword stored in the storage means and displaying the information on the display means is provided.

[0006]

Function: The receiving device receives the information. The operator stores a place name and an intersection name related to his / her destination or route as keywords in the storage means in advance. The search means determines whether or not the received information includes the stored keyword, and selects only the information including the stored keyword and displays it on the display means. As a result, all the information that does not include the keyword is deleted by the search unit, and the operator scrolls only the information that includes the keyword to select the necessary information, so that the information can be efficiently obtained.

[0007]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a VICS information display system using FM multiplex broadcasting according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, description will be given with reference to the drawings. Reference numeral 1 is an FM receiver for receiving FM multiplex broadcasting. Reference numeral 2 denotes a keyword input unit, which includes a method of inputting a place name, an intersection name, etc. using a keyboard or the like, and a method in which a passenger inputs a place name, an intersection name, etc. by voice and a voice recognition unit recognizes the same. A format converter 3 converts the inputted keywords such as the place name and the intersection name into the same data format (format) so that the keywords can be compared with the VICS information received by the FM receiver 1. Reference numeral 4 denotes a memory unit composed of a RAM, which stores the keywords input by the keyword input unit 2. Reference numeral 5 denotes a control unit composed of a microcomputer, which searches the received VICS information for information including a keyword stored in the memory unit 4. Further, the control unit 5 scrolls and displays the searched VICS information in response to the switch (scroll switch) operation of the operator. Reference numeral 6 denotes a display unit such as a liquid crystal display for displaying the received VICS information, which is displayed according to a signal from the control unit 5.

Next, the operation will be described. First, the passenger uses the keyboard of the keyword input unit 2 (or the voice through the voice recognition unit) to input the name of the area where the user wants to obtain information such as the destination or waypoint of the vehicle (intersection). Yes (words other than place names may be entered as keywords). By this operation, these input keywords are converted by the format converter 3 so as to match the format of the VICS information and registered (stored) in the memory unit 4 as keywords.

On the other hand, the VICS information received by the FM receiver 1 via the antenna and separated is sent to the control unit 5. The control unit 5 reads the keyword such as the destination or the waypoint stored in the memory unit 4 and receives the received VI.
VIC that includes this keyword in CS information
Only S information is selected (searched) and stored (stored) as information to be displayed on the display unit 6. If there is little information to be displayed, all the information is displayed on the display unit 6, and if there is more information, it is displayed on the display unit 6 according to the switch (scroll switch) operation of the operator (before the switch operation, the display unit 6 starts from the beginning of the information). Display up to the part that can be displayed).

The search condition can be selected, for example, when any one of the keywords input to the VICS information is included, or when a plurality of keywords are included at the same time. As a result, only the VICS information including the previously registered keyword is displayed on the display unit 6. Then, the passenger scrolls the screen displayed on the display unit 6 to select further necessary information.

As described above, in the present embodiment, unnecessary information other than that registered as a keyword is deleted by the control unit 5, so that the information displayed on the display of the display unit 6 becomes extremely small and necessary. The number of times the screen is scrolled to obtain detailed information can be reduced. In the above description, the configuration has been described for the case where VICS information is provided by FM multiplex broadcasting, but even in the case of radio beacons and optical beacons, F
Only the part of the M receiver is replaced with a receiver adapted to each medium, and otherwise the VI configuration is the same.
Selective display of CS information can be performed. Further, in this embodiment, VI
Although the CS information has been described, the present invention can be applied to other information (information supplied by radio waves or the like).

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, only the information including the required keyword is selected and the unnecessary information is deleted, so that the information displayed on the screen can be greatly reduced. As a result, the operator does not have to scroll the screen, and the necessary information can be easily obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of V using FM multiplex broadcasting according to an embodiment of the present invention.
It is a block diagram explaining an ICS information display system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... FM receiver 2 ... Keyword input section 3 ... Format converter 4 ... Memory section 5 ... Control section 6 ... Display section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A receiving device for receiving information, a display means for displaying the received information, a storage means for storing a desired keyword, and a keyword stored in the storage means from the received information. An information display system comprising a search means for searching information and displaying it on the display means.