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`(11) Laid Open Patent
`Application No.
`2-223985
`(43) Publication Date
`September 6, 1990
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`(19) Japanese Patent Office (JP)
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`(12) Kokai Unexamined Patent Application Bulletin (A)
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`Internal File No.
`Identification Code
`6376-5C
`6422-5C
`363
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`System for providing nonstandard information to large indefinite number of
`people in transportation equipment
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`(21) Application No.:
`1-42966
`(22) Application Date:
`February 27, 1989
`AMANO, Yoshikazu
`Hitachi Ltd. Yokohama Factory, 292 Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-
`(72) Inventor:
`ku, Yokohama-shi, Kangawa-ken
`UMEZAWA, Kouichi
`Hitachi Ltd. Design Laboratory, 1-280 Higashikoigakubo,
`(72) Inventor:
`Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo-to
`YAMAGUCHI, Tadahiro
`Hitachi Ltd. Design Laboratory, 1-280 Higashikoigakubo,
`(72) Inventor:
`Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo-to
`FUKUDA, Nobuo
`Hitachi Ltd. Design Laboratory, 1-280 Higashikoigakubo,
`(72) Inventor:
`Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo-to
`Hitachi Ltd.
`4-6 Kanda surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo-to
`(71) Applicant:
`Patent Attorney OGAWA, Katsuo and one other person
`(74) Agent:
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`SPECIFICATION
`1. Title of the Invention
`System for providing nonstandard information to
`large indefinite number of people in transportation
`equipment
`2. Patent Claims
`1. A system for providing nonstandard information to
`a large indefinite number of people in transportation
`equipment, characterized by comprising: a display
`device for providing nonstandard information wherein
`the display content can change at any time, to a large
`indefinite number of people in transportation equipment
`that provides a limited space as a transportation means;
`a means for transmitting the provided information to this
`display device from inside the transportation equipment;
`and a means for receiving transmitted information from
`outside the transportation equipment and providing the
`same to said transmission means in the transportation
`equipment.
`3. Detailed Description of the Invention
`(Field of Industrial Application)
`The present invention relates to the opportunity of
`making use of time in transportation equipment, by
`installing a display device, which provides nonstandard
`information to a large indefinite number of people who
`are using a limited space such as an airplane, train, or
`bus as a transportation means, and to a system that
`provides various information.
`(Prior Art)
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`Conventionally, in transportation means used by a
`large indefinite number of people, such as a train or a
`bus,
`information such as advertisements and
`notifications normally hang down as printed material, or
`are posted on the walls in the equipment. These are
`normally displayed for a limited time period, and in the
`case of advertisements,
`the provider of
`the
`transportation means obtains income from advertising
`contracts over a fixed period.
`Note that a related known example of this sort is the
`"New Video Service System in Vehicles with Liquid
`Crystal Displays," which appeared in Dempa Shinbun
`on February 14, 1989.
`(Problems to Be Solved by the Invention)
`When the prior art described above is viewed from
`the perspective of providing information, because
`printed material is posted as described above, the
`provided information is displayed for a fixed time period,
`and in order to change the posted information, the
`printed material posted in the equipment must be
`replaced on each occasion. Furthermore, this posted
`information is commonly posted in many places, on the
`order of several locations to dozens of locations in a unit
`of equipment, but when used in dozens of connected
`cars, such as in a train,
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`locations.
`reaches several hundred
`that number
`Consequently, in situations such as when postings are
`periodically changed, there are problems in so much as
`management is difficult and it is not possible to increase
`the utilization rate of the locations at which information
`is provided.
`Meanwhile, when viewed from the perspective of
`receiving information, there are disadvantages in so
`much as, because the information provided is the same
`for a fixed time period, once new information has been
`seen, it will subsequently cease to garner attention, and
`even if new information is posted, because, for the most
`part, the posted information is viewed by [people] who
`are in its presence for on the order of a few tens of
`minutes, the amount of information [provided] is low,
`considering the [duration] of the presence of [people] at
`the location of the posting. Information provision means
`using light-emitting diodes exist, but are limited to
`providing standard information, wherein the information
`is fixed, such as the name of the station stop or the type
`of
`transportation vehicle. Furthermore,
`there are
`examples of video and text information being provided
`in vehicles, but this is limited to providing information
`that has been set up in the vehicles, and timely
`information is not provided.
`An object of the present invention is to provide a
`system which solves the problems described above.
`(Means for Solving the Problems)
`For the problems described above, this is achieved
`by installing: a display device for providing nonstandard
`information wherein the display content can change at
`any time, to a large indefinite number of people in
`transportation equipment that provides limited space as
`a transportation means, such as an airplane, train, or
`bus; and means
`for
`transmitting
`the provided
`information to the display device from inside and outside
`the transportation equipment.
`(Operation)
`This is can be achieved by displaying the information
`to be provided, which had been transmitted from a
`transmission device, on a plurality of display devices set
`up at locations used by the passengers, from a device
`having a function for setting and transmitting the
`indefinite information to be provided and a function for
`receiving and transmitting information transmitted from
`outside the transportation equipment, which is provided
`in a location in the transportation equipment that is not
`used by the passengers, for example, the cockpit in an
`airplane, the conductor's cab in a train, or the driver’s
`seat on a bus.
`(Embodiments)
`Embodiments of the present invention are described
`with reference to the following figures.
`FIG. 1 represents the overall system of the present
`invention.
`[Reference number] 1
`is
`transportation
`equipment; 2
`is an antenna
`installed on
`the
`transportation equipment; 3 is an antenna primarily for
`transmitting the provided information; 4 is a device for
`receiving transmissions of region-specific information
`and signals from the transportation equipment; 5 is a
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`region-specific information controller, which controls the
`transmission of
`region-specific
`information and
`manages the signals received from the transportation
`equipment; and 6 is an information signal transmission
`path between the region-specific information controller
`and the region-specific transmitter.
`FIG. 1 is described, taking an example where the
`transportation equipment is a bus. A region-specific
`information transmitter/receiver 4 is installed at each
`bus stop, which stores
`the provided
`information
`transmitted
`from
`the
`region-specific
`information
`controller 5, and transmits the provided information
`through the antenna 3 to the transportation equipment
`1. The
`transportation equipment 1 receives
`the
`information provided through the antenna 2, and
`provides the information to passengers via the display
`information signal transmitter and the information signal
`display devices provided in the bus. Transportation
`equipment 1a provides information stored in region-
`specific information transmitter 4b, through antennas 3b
`and 2a, to the interior of the vehicle; and transportation
`equipment 1b provides information stored in region-
`specific information transmitter 4n, through antennas 3n
`and 2b, to the interior of the vehicle. The region-specific
`information controller 5 controls which information is
`transmitted to the region-specific information transmitter
`4. Accordingly, the information transmission content
`from region-specific information transmitters 4a to 4n
`may differ from each other or be identical. In addition,
`the transmitted information can be changed every
`certain number of regions.
`This system is bidirectional; when the transportation
`equipment 1 arrives at a stop, the provided information
`received
`from
`the
`region-specific
`information
`is
`transmitter/receiver described above, together with
`which a signal making it known that the transportation
`equipment 1 has arrived at the stop is transmitted to
`antenna 3 from antenna 2. That signal is received by the
`region-specific information transmitter/receiver 4, and
`transmitted to the region-specific information controller
`5 via the transmission path 6, such that the navigation
`status of the transportation equipment 1 can be
`determined, together with which this status can be
`transmitted as information to the next stop to notify
`waiting passengers.
`In this drawing, the transmission paths 6 are
`indicated by wires to facilitate the representation, but
`wireless transmission paths based on communication
`satellites can, of course, also be used. This scenario can
`be realized by installing antennas for transmission and
`reception, such as parabolic antennas, for the region-
`specific information controller 5 and the region-specific
`information transmitter/receiver 4.
`FIG. 2 shows a display information signal transmitter
`and an information signal display device installed in the
`transportation equipment. [Reference number] 7 is a
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`park information 13 in a section 3. In this example,
`information is provided over the entire screen of the
`information signal display device 8, but the motion
`picture information or text and image information
`described above can be provided in combination, or a
`portion [of the screen] can be used to provide these.
`FIGS. 4 to 7 are examples in which the information
`signal display devices 8,
`for
`the
`interior of
`the
`transportation equipment, are installed in a train.
`(Effects of the Invention)
`According
`to
`the present
`invention,
`locations
`providing information in a transportation equipment can
`be put to good use, while in comparison with cases in
`which printed materials are posted, as was conventional,
`not only is the management time reduced, but there is
`an effect of strengthening the power of the information
`provided
`to passengers because
`timeliness and
`freshness are brought out.
`4. Brief Description of the Drawings
`FIG. 1 is a view representing an example of the
`overall system of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a
`schematic view of an example of the device functions in
`the transportation equipment; FIG. 3 shows an example
`of the provision of region-specific information; FIG. 4,
`FIG. 5, FIG. 6, and FIG. 7 are views showing examples
`of the information signal display devices installed in the
`transportation equipment.
`Explanation of the Reference Numbers
`1… transportation equipment; 2… antenna installed
`in the transportation equipment; 3… antenna installed in
`a region-specific information transmission function; 4…
`region-specific information transmission function; 5…
`region-specific information controller; 6…transmission
`path; 7…display
`information signal
`transmitter; 8
`…information signal display device; 9…transmission
`path; 10… traveling state information input; 11, 12, 13
`… examples of region-specific information provision;
`14… example of information provided by way of printed
`material
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`display information signal transmitter, which comprises:
`a video
`information playback
`function 7b, which
`primarily plays back motion pictures stored on a video
`disk or a videotape; a text and image information input
`function 7e, which primarily reads out text and image
`information from a storage medium such as a magnetic
`disk or a memory card, and performs information input
`by way of associated input keys; a text and image
`information control function 7d, which performs control
`so as to allow the input information to be displayed; a
`video, text and image information combining function 7c,
`which combines and/or selects the motion picture
`information played back by the video information
`playback function 7b and information from the text and
`image information control function 7d; a region-specific
`information reception
`function 7f, which primarily
`receives and stores region-specific information from
`outside the transportation equipment; an information
`transmission function 7g, which finally transmits the
`information provided
`to
`the passengers
`to
`the
`information display devices; and an operation control
`function 7a, which operates these functions. [Reference
`numbers] 2 and 3 are antennas; 4 is a region-specific
`information
`transmission
`function, which primarily
`transmits region-specific information; 8 is an information
`display device for displaying the provided information
`transmitted from the display information display device
`[sic] 7; and 9 is a transmission path between these
`devices. [Reference number] 10 is an input signal, which
`represents travel information concerning the travelling
`state or
`the stopped state of
`the
`transportation
`equipment.
`Normally the provided information is such that or text
`and image information or motion pictures stored on a
`video disk or a videotape are provided individually or in
`combination, but when the region-specific information is
`transmitted through the antenna 3 by way of the region-
`specific information transmission function 4, this is
`received by the antenna 2 and the transmitted data is
`stored by the region-specific information input function
`7f and displayed on the information signal display device
`8, via the text and image information control function 7d,
`the text and image information combining function 7c
`and the information transmission function 7g. This
`provided information can provide timely information,
`which is not covered by the motion picture information
`and text and image information that has been provided
`in
`the
`transportation equipment
`in advance. For
`example, emergency news can be released and
`information limited to things happening in that region
`can be provided.
`If
`region-specific
`information
`transmission functions 4 are installed along the travel
`route of the transportation equipment, this information
`can be such that the content of the provided information
`is changed in corresponding interval units.
`FIG. 3 shows a configuration assuming that the
`transportation equipment is a train. This is an example
`in which the information signal display device 8 is
`provided with cultural information 11 in a section 1, with
`event information 12 in a section 2, and with amusement
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`KAWAKATSU, Yoshihiro
`(72) Inventor:
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`Hitachi Ltd. Design Laboratory, 1-280 Higashikoigakubo,
`Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo-to
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`Amendment to Proceedings (Formal)
`June 21, 1989
`To: Commissioner of the Patent Office
`Case Indication
`1989 Patent Application No. 42966
`Title of the Invention:
`System for providing nonstandard information to
`large indefinite number of people in transportation
`equipment
`Amending Party
`Relationship to the Case: Patent applicant
`Name: Hitachi Ltd. (510)
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`Applicant:
`Address Hitachi Ltd.
`1-5-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
`Name Katsuo Ogawa, Patent Attorney (6850)
`[stamp]
`[illegible]
`Date of Amendment Order: May 30, 1989 (transmittal
`date)
`Object of Amendment
`All of the drawings
`Amended Content
`Clean copies on separate sheets of all of the
`drawings initially appended to the application
`(Content not changed)
`[stamp] JPO, 6/21/1989, Second Application Dept.
`End
`Formal Examination
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