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By Justin BoronAnne Dunivin's Australian crawl is one of the best in the state. At 88 years old, her wake in the pool was strong enough to draw three gold medals at this year's Golden Olympics in Warner Robins. The former Riverdale City Council member retired from politics recently but hasn't given up her vitality. Swimming two to three times a week at local public schools, she said she values her fitness as much as anything else in life. Her health could not be better. "I feel good. I don't have any aches or pains," Dunivin said. "I can just go forever with an Australian crawl." The stroke that won her three medals is a combination of a free style and sidestroke that she said is not hard to master. "You pull like you're moving a piano," Dunivin said. Swimming has been in her life from an early age. A child of the Great Depression, she said she lived in Atlanta near Grant Park, where she could walk to the public pool. Splashing into her late teens, Dunivin said she became a college lifeguard, teaching breathing techniques to those looking to learn how to swim. Swimming lessons were one of the first gifts she gave to her children, she said. But the benefit came back to her as the children soaked up days at the pool, giving her plenty of time to herself. "When both could swim, I felt emancipated," Dunivin said. Once her children grew up, she took a long break from swimming. But she recently got back into the pool for exercise after her husband died about 15 years ago. In September, she attended a qualifying event for the Golden Olympics. Four to 500 seniors from all over the state showed up for the event geared toward elderly athletes, said Joanne Robinette, one of the event's coordinators said. The Golden Olympics has been around for 20 years and is very competitive, she said. Counties sometimes send whole teams. Some even come from out of the state, she said. The games include a range of events all the way from checkers to track to swimming. In the 50-meter, 100-meter, and 200-meter Australian crawl, Dunivin took the gold, qualifying her for a national event held every year. The national senior Olympics will be held in Pittsburgh in June. Until then, she said she would be hitting the pool twice a week training for the nationals. "I'm just working on getting stronger," Dunivin said. If you know an interesting person who should be profiled, send us the name and some information and we will consider featuring that person in a coming Friday. E-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com .
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The Central government has been at the receiving end of political parties and 'aam aadmi' over hike in diesel price and FDI in multi brand retail.
The latest initiative is a desperate attempt to make people aware of why the Manmohan Singh-led government had to take such crucial and hard decisions on the economic front. Also it would help the UPA-II to take on the opposing political parties, who have recently been very critical of the policies.
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|May 19, 2011
|Filing date
|Jan 14, 2009
|Priority date
|Jun 25, 2008
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|Sjoerd Aben, Jasper Michael Van Hemert
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|Tomtom International B.V.
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|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (13), Classifications (29), Legal Events (1)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to navigation devices and to methods for presenting navigation information. Illustrative embodiments of the invention relate to portable navigation devices (so-called PNDs), in particular PNDs that include Global Positioning System (GPS) signal reception and processing functionality. Other embodiments relate, more generally, to any type of processing device that is configured to execute navigation software so as to provide route planning, and preferably also navigation, functionality.
Portable navigation devices (PNDs) that include GPS (Global Positioning System) signal reception and processing functionality are well known and are widely employed as in-car or other vehicle navigation systems.
In general terms, a modern PNDs comprises a processor, memory (at least one of volatile and non-volatile, and commonly both), and map data stored within said memory. The processor and memory cooperate to provide an execution environment in which a software operating system may be established, and additionally it is commonplace for one or more additional software programs to be provided to enable the functionality of the PND to be controlled, and to provide various other functions.
Typically these devices further comprise one or more input interfaces that allow a user to interact with and control the device, and one or more output interfaces by means of which information may be relayed to the user. Illustrative examples of output interfaces include a visual display and a speaker for audible output. Illustrative examples of input interfaces include one or more physical buttons to control on/off operation or other features of the device (which buttons need not necessarily be on the device itself but could be on a steering wheel if the device is built into a vehicle), and a microphone for detecting user speech. In a particularly preferred arrangement the output interface display may be configured as a touch sensitive display (by means of a touch sensitive overlay or otherwise) to additionally provide an input interface by means of which a user can operate the device by touch.
Devices of this type will also often include one or more physical connector interfaces by means of which power and optionally data signals can be transmitted to and received from the device, and optionally one or more wireless transmitters/receivers to allow communication over cellular telecommunications and other signal and data networks, for example Wi-Fi, Wi-Max GSM and the like.
PND devices of this type also include a GPS antenna by means of which satellite-broadcast signals, including location data, can be received and subsequently processed to determine a current location of the device.
The PND device may also include electronic gyroscopes and accelerometers which produce signals that can be processed to determine the current angular and linear acceleration, and in turn, and in conjunction with location information derived from the GPS signal, velocity and relative displacement of the device and thus the vehicle in which it is mounted. Typically such features are most commonly provided in in-vehicle navigation systems, but may also be provided in PND devices if it is expedient to do so.
The utility of such PNDs is manifested primarily in their ability to determine a route between a first location (typically a start or current location) and a second location (typically a destination). These locations can be input by a user of the device, by any of a wide variety of different methods, for example by postcode, street name and house number, previously stored "well known" destinations (such as famous locations, municipal locations (such as sports grounds or swimming baths) or other points of interest), and favourite or recently visited destinations.
Typically, the PND is enabled by software for computing a "best" or "optimum" route between the start and destination address locations from the map data. A "best" or "optimum" route is determined on the basis of predetermined criteria and need not necessarily be the fastest or shortest route. The selection of the route along which to guide the driver can be very sophisticated, and the selected route may take into account existing, predicted and dynamically and/or wirelessly received traffic and road information, historical information about road speeds, and the driver's own preferences for the factors determining road choice (for example the driver may specify that the route should not include motorways or toll roads).
In addition, the device may continually monitor road and traffic conditions, and offer to or choose to change the route over which the remainder of the journey is to be made due to changed conditions. Real time traffic monitoring systems, based on various technologies (e.g. mobile phone data exchanges, fixed cameras, GPS fleet tracking) are being used to identify traffic delays and to feed the information into notification systems.
PNDs of this type may typically be mounted on the dashboard or windscreen of a vehicle, but may also be formed as part of an on-board computer of the vehicle radio or indeed as part of the control system of the vehicle itself. The navigation device may also be part of a hand-held system, such as a PDA (Portable Digital Assistant) a media player, a mobile phone or the like, and in these cases, the normal functionality of the hand-held system is extended by means of the installation of software on the device to perform both route calculation and navigation along a calculated route.
Route planning and navigation functionality may also be provided by a desktop or mobile computing resource running appropriate software. For example, the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) provides an on-line route planning and navigation facility at http://www.rac.co.uk, which facility allows a user to enter a start point and a destination whereupon the server to which the user's PC is connected calculates a route (aspects of which may be user specified), generates a map, and generates a set of exhaustive navigation instructions for guiding the user from the selected start point to the selected destination. The facility also provides for pseudo three-dimensional rendering of a calculated route, and route preview functionality which simulates a user travelling along the route and thereby provides the user with a preview of the calculated route.
In the context of a PND, once a route has been calculated, the user interacts with the navigation device to select the desired calculated route, optionally from a list of proposed routes. Optionally, the user may intervene in, or guide the route selection process, for example by specifying that certain routes, roads, locations or criteria are to be avoided or are mandatory for a particular journey. The route calculation aspect of the PND forms one primary function, and navigation along such a route is another primary function.
During navigation along a calculated route, it is usual for such PNDs to provide visual and/or audible instructions to guide the user along a chosen route to the end of that route, i.e. the desired destination. It is also usual for PNDs to display map information on-screen during the navigation, such information regularly being updated on-screen so that the map information displayed is representative of the current location of the device, and thus of the user or user's vehicle if the device is being used for in-vehicle navigation.
An icon displayed on-screen typically denotes the current device location, and is centred with the map information of current and surrounding roads in the vicinity of the current device location and other map features also being displayed. Additionally, navigation information may be displayed, optionally in a status bar above, below or to one side of the displayed map information, examples of navigation information include a distance to the next deviation from the current road required to be taken by the user, the nature of that deviation possibly being represented by a further icon suggestive of the particular type of deviation, for example a left or right turn. The navigation function also determines the content, duration and timing of audible instructions by means of which the user can be guided along the route. As can be appreciated a simple instruction such as "turn left in 100 m" requires significant processing and analysis. As previously mentioned, user interaction with the device may be by a touch screen, or additionally or alternately by steering column mounted remote control, by voice activation or by any other suitable method.
A further important function provided by the device is automatic route re-calculation in the event that: a user deviates from the previously calculated route during navigation (either by accident or intentionally); real-time traffic conditions dictate that an alternative route would be more expedient and the device is suitably enabled to recognize such conditions automatically, or if a user actively causes the device to perform route re-calculation for any reason.
It is also known to allow a route to be calculated with user defined criteria; for example, the user may prefer a scenic route to be calculated by the device, or may wish to avoid any roads on which traffic congestion is likely, expected or currently prevailing. The device software would then calculate various routes and weigh more favourably those that include along their route the highest number of points of interest (known as POIs) tagged as being for example of scenic beauty, or, using stored information indicative of prevailing traffic conditions on particular roads, order the calculated routes in terms of a level of likely congestion or delay on account thereof. Other POI-based and traffic information-based route calculation and navigation criteria are also possible.
Although the route calculation and navigation functions are fundamental to the overall utility of PNDs, it is possible to use the device purely for information display, or "free-driving", in which only map information relevant to the current device location is displayed, and in which no route has been calculated and no navigation is currently being performed by the device. Such a mode of operation is often applicable when the user already knows the route along which it is desired to travel and does not require navigation assistance.
Devices of the type described above, for example the 720T model manufactured and supplied by TomTom International B.V., provide a reliable means for enabling users to navigate from one position to another.
As well as being of great utility when a user is not familiar with the route to be navigated, many users still use a navigation device to aid route selection on a familiar journey, such as between the user's home and place of work. Circumstances such as accidents, and changes in traffic flow at different times of day, mean that a navigation device can be of substantial benefit in aiding selection of an optimum route to avoid delays and congestion.
For example, in some countries, digital information concerning traffic delays may be transmitted to in-vehicle navigation devices wirelessly. One example is the radio-data-system-traffic-message-channel (RDS-TMC) which enables a limited quantity of digital traffic information to be multiplexed as part of an FM radio broadcast. Such information may be demultiplexed by a suitable FM receiver, and processed by a navigation device. Another example uses the techniques described in the following PCT applications, published under numbers WO 2007/057696, WO 2007/057694, WO 2007/042796, WO 2007/017691 and WO 02/45046, to provide a large quantity of up-to-date digital traffic information in a dedicated information channel. Such a system is implemented by TomTom International BV under the trade name of HD Traffic (High Definition Traffic).
As an alternative to receiving information about delays, a further technique is to include, in the digital map information, journey-time profiles for different times of day that take account of habitual traffic patterns. These journey-time profiles are based on a historical average of different vehicles using a road at different times of day. Including such journey-time profiles in the digital map information enables a navigation device to plan a route in accordance with habitual traffic patterns. The journey-time profiles may be derived by any suitable method, a specific technique being described, for example, in PCT/EP2008/057694. Such a technique is implemented by TomTom International BV under the trade name of IQ Routes.
Each technique has it advantages and disadvantages. Real-time traffic information is more accurate because it is based on actual traffic and road conditions. However, real-time traffic information only provides information for the current moment, without any indication of how the traffic flow will evolve in the future. In contrast, pre-stored journey-time profiles for different times of day do provide a pattern of how journey-times and habitual delays evolve, because they are based on analysis of historical journeys. However, pre-store journey-time profiles are merely statistical in nature, they do not provide an accurate snapshot of a current traffic situation, which may be affected by unpredictable accidents, broken-down vehicles, or other delays caused by roadworks or faulty traffic-lights.
A further problem is that, as the quantity of traffic flow information accessible by a navigation device increases (whether real-time traffic information, or pre-stored journey-time profiles), it becomes increasingly difficult to present such information to the user in a simple yet meaningful way. When used in-vehicle, it is important not to distract the user's attention from driving the vehicle, as this increases the driver's stress and increases the risk of accident.
The present invention has been devised bearing the above issues in mind.
Aspects of the invention are defined in the claims.
In one aspect, the preferred embodiment illustrates a technique for generating an output indication representing whether or not journey conditions are favourable, the technique comprising:
calculating for a navigation route, expected journey time information indicating an expected time duration for completing the route;
comparing the expected journey time with an average journey time for the route; and
generating, responsive to the result of said comparison, the output indication representing whether or not journey conditions are favourable.
In another aspect, the preferred embodiment illustrates a technique for generating an output indication representing whether or not journey conditions are favourable, the technique comprising one or more features selected from:
determining first journey time information for traversing at least one segment of a navigation route at a first predetermined time;
determining second journey time information for traversing said at least one segment of the navigation route at a second predetermined time different from said first predetermined time;
determining from said first and second journey time information a journey time parameter representative of variation in journey time; and
generating the output indication responsive to the journey time parameter.
In another aspect, the preferred embodiment illustrates a technique for processing live traffic information to predict future evolution of the live traffic information, the technique comprising one or more features selected from:
receive an item of live traffic information representing a traffic journey-time delay, at a respective time of incidence;
store information indicating the journey-time delay and the respective time in a memory, to create a history of variation of the respective journey-time delay with respect to incidence time; and
determine from the history at least one characteristic of the journey-time delay indicative of predicted evolution into the future of the journey-time delay from time of incidence of a most recent item of live traffic information.
As used herein, the term "traffic information" or "live traffic information" refers to traffic information received from an external source and providing information from observed current traffic data. The information is "live" in the sense that it is based on current observations, although it will be appreciated that processing and transmission may delay the information throughput. Examples of live traffic information include the aforementioned RDS-TMC and HD-Traffic.
Features and advantages of the invention in its various aspects and embodiments include at least one selected from: (i) the presentation of an indication of whether journey conditions are favourable, in an intuitive and easy to understand manner; (ii) ability to monitor journey conditions for one or more pre-stored routes, and to generate a prompt to advise or warn about journey conditions; (iii) ability to derive a prediction of how journey-time delays indicated by live traffic information may evolve in the future; (iv) using a history of the live traffic information to predict how traffic delays may evolve based on extrapolation of the history; (v) ability to bridge the usability information gap between live traffic information and pre-stored journey-time profiles.
Further feature and advantages are set out hereafter, and further details and features of each of these embodiments are defined in the accompanying dependent claims and elsewhere in the following detailed description. Protection is claimed for any novel feature or idea described herein and/or illustrated in the drawings, whether or not emphasis has been placed thereon.
Various aspects of the teachings of the present invention, and arrangements embodying those teachings, will hereafter be described by way of illustrative example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described with particular reference to a PND. It should be remembered, however, that the teachings of the present invention are not limited to PNDs but are instead universally applicable to any type of processing device that is configured to execute navigation software so as to provide route planning and navigation functionality. It follows therefore that in the context of the present application, a navigation device is intended to include (without limitation) any type of route planning and navigation device, irrespective of whether that device is embodied as a PND, a navigation device built into a vehicle, or indeed a computing resource (such as a desktop or portable personal computer (PC), mobile telephone or portable digital assistant (PDA)) executing route planning and navigation software.
It will also be apparent from the following that the teachings of the present invention even have utility in circumstances where a user is not seeking instructions on how to navigate from one point to another, but merely wishes to be provided with a view of a given location. In such circumstances the "destination" location selected by the user need not have a corresponding start location from which the user wishes to start navigating, and as a consequence references herein to the "destination" location or indeed to a "destination" view should not be interpreted to mean that the generation of a route is essential, that travelling to the "destination" must occur, or indeed that the presence of a destination requires the designation of a corresponding start location.
With the above provisos in mind,
The GPS system is implemented when a device, specially equipped to receive GPS data, begins scanning radio frequencies for GPS satellite signals. Upon receiving a radio signal from a GPS satellite, the device determines the precise location of that satellite via one of a plurality of different conventional methods. The device will continue scanning, in most instances, for signals until it has acquired at least three different satellite signals (noting that position is not normally, but can be determined, with only two signals using other triangulation techniques). Implementing geometric triangulation, the receiver utilizes the three known positions to determine its own two-dimensional position relative to the satellites. This can be done in a known manner. Additionally, acquiring a fourth satellite signal will allow the receiving device to calculate its three dimensional position by the same geometrical calculation in a known manner. The position and velocity data can be updated in real time on a continuous basis by an unlimited number of users.
As shown in
The spread spectrum signals 160, continuously transmitted from each satellite 120, utilize a highly accurate frequency standard accomplished with an extremely accurate atomic clock. Each satellite 120, as part of its data signal transmission 160, transmits a data stream indicative of that particular satellite 120. It is appreciated by those skilled in the relevant art that the GPS receiver device 140 generally acquires spread spectrum GPS satellite signals 160 from at least three satellites 120 for the GPS receiver device 140 to calculate its two-dimensional position by triangulation. Acquisition of an additional signal, resulting in signals 160 from a total of four satellites 120, permits the GPS receiver device 140 to calculate its three-dimensional position in a known manner.
The navigation device 200 is located within a housing (not shown). The housing includes a processor 210 connected to an input device 220 and a display screen 240. The input device 220 can include a keyboard device, voice input device, touch panel and/or any other known input device utilised to input information; and the display screen 240 can include any type of display screen such as an LCD display, for example. In a particularly preferred arrangement the input device 220 and display screen 240 are integrated into an integrated input and display device, including a touchpad or touchscreen input so that a user need only touch a portion of the display screen 240 to select one of a plurality of display choices or to activate one of a plurality of virtual buttons.
The navigation device may include an output device 260, for example an audible output device (e.g. a loudspeaker). As output device 260 can produce audible information for a user of the navigation device 200, it is should equally be understood that input device 240 can include a microphone and software for receiving input voice commands as well.
In the navigation device 200, processor 210 is operatively connected to and set to receive input information from input device 220 via a connection 225, and operatively connected to at least one of display screen 240 and output device 260, via output connections 245, to output information thereto. Further, the processor 210 is operably coupled to a memory resource 230 via connection 235 and is further adapted to receive/send information from/to input/output (I/O) ports 270 via connection 275, wherein the I/O port 270 is connectible to an I/O device 280 external to the navigation device 200. The memory resource 230 comprises, for example, a volatile memory, such as a Random Access Memory (RAM) and a non-volatile memory, for example a digital memory, such as a flash memory. The external I/O device 280 may include, but is not limited to an external listening device such as an earpiece for example. The connection to I/O device 280 can further be a wired or wireless connection to any other external device such as a car stereo unit for hands-free operation and/or for voice activated operation for example, for connection to an ear piece or head phones, and/or for connection to a mobile phone for example, wherein the mobile phone connection may be used to establish a data connection between the navigation device 200 and the internet or any other network for example, and/or to establish a connection to a server via the internet or some other network for example.
Further, it will be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art that the electronic components shown in
In addition, the portable or handheld navigation device 200 of
Referring now to
The establishing of the network connection between the mobile device (via a service provider) and another device such as the server 302, using an internet (such as the World Wide Web) for example, can be done in a known manner. This can include use of TCP/IP layered protocol for example. The mobile device can utilize any number of communication standards such as CDMA, GSM, WAN, etc.
As such, an internet connection may be utilised which is achieved via data connection, via a mobile phone or mobile phone technology within the navigation device 200 for example. For this connection, an internet connection between the server 302 and the navigation device 200 is established. This can be done, for example, through a mobile phone or other mobile device and a GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)-connection (GPRS connection is a high-speed data connection for mobile devices provided by telecom operators; GPRS is a method to connect to the internet).
The navigation device 200 can further complete a data connection with the mobile device, and eventually with the internet and server 302, via existing Bluetooth technology for example, in a known manner, wherein the data protocol can utilize any number of standards, such as the GSRM, the Data Protocol Standard for the GSM standard, for example.
The navigation device 200 may include its own mobile phone technology within the navigation device 200 itself (including an antenna for example, or optionally using the internal antenna of the navigation device 200). The mobile phone technology within the navigation device 200 can include internal components as specified above, and/or can include an insertable card (e.g. Subscriber Identity Module or SIM card), complete with necessary mobile phone technology and/or an antenna for example. As such, mobile phone technology within the navigation device 200 can similarly establish a network connection between the navigation device 200 and the server 302, via the internet for example, in a manner similar to that of any mobile device.
For GRPS phone settings, a Bluetooth enabled navigation device may be used to correctly work with the ever changing spectrum of mobile phone models, manufacturers, etc., model/manufacturer specific settings may be stored on the navigation device 200 for example. The data stored for this information can be updated.
The server 302 includes, in addition to other components which may not be illustrated, a processor 304 operatively connected to a memory 306 and further operatively connected, via a wired or wireless connection 314, to a mass data storage device 312. The processor 304 is further operatively connected to transmitter 308 and receiver 310, to transmit and send information to and from navigation device 200 via communications channel 318. The signals sent and received may include data, communication, and/or other propagated signals. The transmitter 308 and receiver 310 may be selected or designed according to the communications requirement and communication technology used in the communication design for the navigation system 200. Further, it should be noted that the functions of transmitter 308 and receiver 310 may be combined into a signal transceiver.
Server 302 is further connected to (or includes) a mass storage device 312, noting that the mass storage device 312 may be coupled to the server 302 via communication link 314. The mass storage device 312 contains a store of navigation data and map information, and can again be a separate device from the server 302 or can be incorporated into the server 302.
The navigation device 200 is adapted to communicate with the server 302 through communications channel 318, and includes processor, memory, etc. as previously described with regard to
Software stored in server memory 306 provides instructions for the processor 304 and allows the server 302 to provide services to the navigation device 200. One service provided by the server 302 involves processing requests from the navigation device 200 and transmitting navigation data from the mass data storage 312 to the navigation device 200. Another service provided by the server 302 includes processing the navigation data using various algorithms for a desired application and sending the results of these calculations to the navigation device 200.
The communication channel 318 generically represents the propagating medium or path that connects the navigation device 200 and the server 302. Both the server 302 and navigation device 200 include a transmitter for transmitting data through the communication channel and a receiver for receiving data that has been transmitted through the communication channel.
The communication channel 318 is not limited to a particular communication technology. Additionally, the communication channel 318 is not limited to a single communication technology; that is, the channel 318 may include several communication links that use a variety of technology. For example, the communication channel 318 can be adapted to provide a path for electrical, optical, and/or electromagnetic communications, etc. As such, the communication channel 318 includes, but is not limited to, one or a combination of the following: electric circuits, electrical conductors such as wires and coaxial cables, fibre optic cables, converters, radio-frequency (RF) waves, the atmosphere, empty space, etc. Furthermore, the communication channel 318 can include intermediate devices such as routers, repeaters, buffers, transmitters, and receivers, for example.
In one illustrative arrangement, the communication channel 318 includes telephone and computer networks. Furthermore, the communication channel 318 may be capable of accommodating wireless communication such as radio frequency, microwave frequency, infrared communication, etc. Additionally, the communication channel 318 can accommodate satellite communication.
The communication signals transmitted through the communication channel 318 include, but are not limited to, signals as may be required or desired for given communication technology. For example, the signals may be adapted to be used in cellular communication technology such as Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), etc. Both digital and analogue signals can be transmitted through the communication channel 318. These signals may be modulated, encrypted and/or compressed signals as may be desirable for the communication technology.
The server 302 includes a remote server accessible by the navigation device 200 via a wireless channel. The server 302 may include a network server located on a local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), virtual private network (VPN), etc.
The server 302 may include a personal computer such as a desktop or laptop computer, and the communication channel 318 may be a cable connected between the personal computer and the navigation device 200. Alternatively, a personal computer may be connected between the navigation device 200 and the server 302 to establish an internet connection between the server 302 and the navigation device 200. Alternatively, a mobile telephone or other handheld device may establish a wireless connection to the internet, for connecting the navigation device 200 to the server 302 via the internet.
The navigation device 200 may be provided with information from the server 302 via information downloads which may be periodically updated automatically or upon a user connecting navigation device 200 to the server 302 and/or may be more dynamic upon a more constant or frequent connection being made between the server 302 and navigation device 200 via a wireless mobile connection device and TCP/IP connection for example. For many dynamic calculations, the processor 304 in the server 302 may be used to handle the bulk of the processing needs, however, processor 210 of navigation device 200 can also handle much processing and calculation, oftentimes independent of a connection to a server 302.
As indicated above in
The navigation device 200 may sit on an arm 292, which itself may be secured to a vehicle dashboard/window/etc. using a suction cup 294. This arm 292 is one example of a docking station to which the navigation device 200 can be docked.
As shown in
Referring now to
The memory resource 230 also stores a map database or digital map 490, that is an electronic representation of information used for (i) generating a visual map display, and (ii) the positions of roads and junctions needed for route-planning and navigation. The digital map 490 may be organised as a single collection of data, or it may be organised as a plurality of distinct information components. For each road segment represented in the digital map 490, the digital map includes supplementary information about the road segment. For example, referring to
Note that, in
Referring to
In addition to the digital map 490, the memory resource 230 may also store a planned navigation route that has been devised by the route planning module 482, and/or one or more pre-planned routes that have previously been planned, and have been selected by the user for storage. For example, such pre-planned routes may be referred to as "favourite routes". Storing these routes enables the route details to be retrieved without having to re-input the route details such as departure point, destination point, and route selection criteria.
In one form, the navigation device 200 is able to process live traffic information. As used herein, the term "live traffic information" means traffic information received from an external source and providing information from observed traffic data. The information is "live" in the sense that it is based on current observations, although it will be appreciated that processing and transmission may delay the information throughput. Examples of live traffic information include the aforementioned RDS-TMC and HD-Traffic data. RDS-TMC information may be delayed by up to 30-60 minutes, because the information capacity of an RDS-TMC channel limits the throughput of information, and it can take up to 30-60 minutes to refresh an entire frame of information. HD-Traffic data is much more up to date, and the transmission less affected by the transmission channel capacity. The navigation device 200 may include a receiver for receiving and decoding the live traffic information, or the navigation device 200 may be coupled via the I/O port 270 to a separate receiver for receiving the live traffic information. The separate receiver could, for example, be an FM radio, or cellular telephone equipment. The live traffic information is decoded if necessary by the traffic information processing module 486.
One optional aspect of the preferred embodiment is the traffic delay evolution analyzer 488. The analyzer 488 processes the live traffic information to predict how a traffic delay may evolve in the future.
Step 606 applies a second optional selection test, by determining whether the respective delay to journey time exceeds a time threshold. The threshold is selected so that minor delays can be skipped. The threshold may be, for example, about 5 minutes. Step 606 may be implemented optionally in combination with step 604 or, as an alternative, both steps 604 and 606 could be omitted if desired.
Step 608 stores the current traffic delay information, and a time-stamp representing an time of incidence of the traffic delay information, to create a time-indexed or time-ordered history of the delay information for the respective delay over time. The traffic delay information may include one or more of a delay start point 600 a on the map, a journey-time delay 600 b for traversing the delay, a jam length 600 c (a physical length), and a delay end point 600 d on the map.
Step 610 analyses the history of the delay information, and uses statistical extrapolation to predict how the delay to journey time will evolve in the future, based on the time delay history. Various extrapolation techniques are known in the art of statistical analysis for predicting future change based on current and historical values. Step 610 may also classify the delay according to, for example, whether the delay is stable, growing or shrinking, and/or whether the delay is itself advancing along the route (for example, if caused by a slow-moving vehicle). The loop 602 is then repeated for the next traffic delay awaiting processing.
At step 616, the classification and parameters are stored in the memory resource.
The above technique enables prediction of how a traffic delay may evolve in the future based on storing and analysing the delay history. This makes up for a significant difference between live traffic information and pre-stored journey-time profiles. Even when live traffic information does not contain any historical content, nor future prediction information, the above technique can enable traffic delay evolution to be predicted.
The above technique has been described as being used by a navigation device 200 processing received live traffic information. As an alternative, such prediction processing could be applied on the transmission side before the live traffic information is transmitted or broadcast. For example, an additional data field could be included in the live traffic information. The additional data field could represent one or more of the above classifications and parameters. This may enable the processing burden to be reduced in each navigation device 200. It may also increase the value of live traffic information, as well as ensuring harmonisation of prediction.
The use of predicted delay times from (or for) live traffic information is extremely valuable for aiding route planning and analysis. Such information can fill current information gap between live traffic information
Referring to
In a preferred form, the navigation device 200 generates an icon 636 in the map view. Referring to
If a traffic delay is determined to be increasingly at a rate greater than a pre-determined threshold, an additional alert may be generated to alert the user to the delay being a rapidly increasing perturbation to the journey along this route. The additional alert may, for example, be an alert sound.
If a traffic delay is of medium size, and is determined to be stable for a relatively long time and/or shows little or no motion, the delay may represent a standing traffic jam caused by road works and/or an accident. Such a traffic delay may remain present for a long time, and so a different display representation and/or icon may be used.
Referring to
In one form, the journey-time analyzer 484 is configured to generate an output indication of whether the journey time along a route is currently in a state of increase, decrease, or is stable. Such information is an effective way of indicating to the user whether, were the user to wait a short while, the journey time will be longer, shorter, or the same, compared to the user starting the journey now. This provides a simple yet highly intuitive indication to the user whether he should start the journey now, or wait a short while if the journey time would be shorter.
In another form, the journey-time analyzer 484 may additionally, or alternatively, be configured to generate a warning signal indicative of whether or not the journey time along a route is "worse than average", i.e. greater than average. Additionally or alternatively, a positive indication may be generated if the expected journey time is less than average (and/or at least not greater than average). If the driver wishes to avoid congestion or delay, this may enable the user to decide whether he should start the journey, or wait longer.
The processing to implement such functionality is now described.
In the form in which the journey-time analyzer analyses whether the journey time is currently in a state of increase, decrease or stable, reference is made to
If desired, the comparison may be quantised by a predetermined quantisation value (e.g. 5 minutes) or a predetermined fraction of the total journey time (e.g. 5%), such that only differences in magnitude greater than the quantisation value will indicate states (a) or (c). Differences in magnitude less than the quantisation value are deemed to be equal and indicate state (b).
The output indication may again be indicated using an icon, such as the arrow icon of
Referring to
In a more refined form, the method adds optional steps 670 and 677 of applying time offsets to reflect the length of time taken by a vehicle to reach a certain road segment. In the present method, the offset may be read directly from the rolling sum of journey time calculated at step 674 or 678, respectively.
In a further alternative form, the journey-time analyzer 484 may use, in combination, both a technique based on live traffic information (e.g.
Where the expected journey time is based on received live traffic information, a delay to journey time less than, or not exceeding, a predetermined threshold may optionally be ignored as insignificant, in order to reduce processing burden. The threshold may, for example, be similar to that used in step 606. Typically the threshold is about 5 minutes. Optionally, the journey time delay evolution analyzer 188 may be invoked to extrapolate the delay time to a future point in time at which the vehicle is expected to arrive that the point of the traffic delay.
Step 702 comprises determining or calculating an average journey time for the journey. The information source for the average journey time may be different from the information source for the expected journey time. For example, if at step 700 the expected journey time is calculated using received live traffic information, step 702 may comprise obtaining the average journey time from the digital map information, for example, from the journey-time profiles 506. The journey-time profiles 506 are already based on a historical average of collected vehicle journey data, and so no additional averaging function might be implemented.
Alternatively, the information source for the average journey time may be the same as that for calculating the expected journey time, for example, both based on pre-stored traffic profiles 506. In such case, step 702 preferably comprises performing further averaging calculations to obtain an average value of the journey time, for example, by averaging the journey-time profiles 506 over an entire day, and/or by averaging the journey profiles for the same time of day, but different days of the week, month and/or year. Performing such averaging calculations (i) ensures some differentiation or independence between the expected journey time and the average journey time, and/or (ii) ensures that the average journey time represents a less fluctuating reference of journey time than the expected journey time.
At step 704, the expected journey time and the average journey time are compared, and an indication is generated depending on whether the expected journey time is greater than the average. If desired, an additional threshold could also be used in the comparison, either:
Also, at step 704, three or more indication states could be used instead of merely two states. Three indication states could include: "better than average (less than average)"; "the same as average"; or "worse than average (greater than average)". The threshold could be used to quantise the comparison such that if the magnitude of difference between the expected journey time and the average journey time is less than the quantisation threshold, the output indication is "same as average".
In both of the above, the threshold may be a predetermined value, or it may be user settable or adjustable.
The indication of journey time at step 704 may comprises generation of a sound, such as a warning tone. Different sounds may be used to indicate different comparison states, and/or a special alert sound may be generated when the comparison state changes.
Referring to
The same principles of monitoring the journey time to provide time-related information for a certain route of interest may be extended to other traffic delay parameters, such as traffic flow. While many users typically desire route-planning for the fastest route, other users may desire a free flowing route, without congestion delays, even if this route might not be the fastest route to the destination. A free-flowing route may be less stressful for the user to drive.
The above techniques enable monitoring of journey-time information and generation of useful and intuitive indicators to a user concerning journey-times and/or traffic delays. The indicators are easy for a user to understand without having to divert attention to listen to, or read, large quantities of time-related information. If desired, the journey-time information may additionally be logged or calculated over a certain time period, and presented visually in a graphical form to the user, to enable the user to identify an optimum time of day to make the desired journey. The graphical form may be displayed on the display of the navigation device 200, or it may be printed, for example, using a communication connection to an external computer equipped with a printer.
It will be appreciated that whilst various aspects and embodiments of the present invention have heretofore been described, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the particular arrangements set out herein and instead extends to encompass all arrangements, and modifications and alterations thereto, which fall within the scope of the appended claims.
For example, whilst embodiments described in the foregoing detailed description refer to GPS, it should be noted that the navigation device may utilise any kind of position sensing technology as an alternative to (or indeed in addition to) GPS. For example the navigation device may utilise using other global navigation satellite systems such as the European Galileo system. Equally, it is not limited to satellite based but could readily function using ground based beacons or any other kind of system that enables the device to determine its geographic location.
It will also be well understood by persons of ordinary skill in the art that whilst the preferred embodiment implements certain functionality by means of software, that functionality could equally be implemented solely in hardware (for example by means of one or more ASICs (application specific integrated circuit)) or indeed by a mix of hardware and software. As such, the scope of the present invention should not be interpreted as being limited only to being implemented in software.
Lastly, it should also be noted that whilst the accompanying claims set out particular combinations of features described herein, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the particular combinations hereafter claimed, but instead extends to encompass any combination of features or embodiments herein disclosed irrespective of whether or not that particular combination has been specifically enumerated in the accompanying claims at this time.
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MPs publish report on inward investment in Wales
The Committee reports that the abolition of the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) has reduced Wales's visibility in the global market place. Nearly five years on, the WDA remains one of the most recognisable of all Welsh brands. The Welsh Government must urgently consider how it can be used to promote more clearly Wales's global identity. The Committee argues for the establishment of a dedicated trade promotion agency, either sitting within the Welsh Government or as a private sector vehicle. Such a body should have a mix of skills with an emphasis on private sector experience.
The Committee argues that Wales does not have sufficient resources to work alone in attracting inward investment nor the advantages that UK Trade & Investment, the UK Government department with lead responsibility for trade and investment, has in terms of resources and networks. Wales must engage with politicians and officials in the UK Government to maximise opportunities to attract inward investment to Wales and so improve the long-terms prospects of the Welsh economy.
Comment from the Chair
Chair of the Committee David T.C. Davies MP, said:
"Wales is now one of the worst performing areas in the UK in terms of attracting inward investment. Traditional approaches, such as grants and low labour costs, can no longer be relied upon to attract inward investors. The Welsh Government must think innovatively about how to attract investment and develop a clear economic strategy.
Without a dedicated trade promotion agency, Wales's international recognition has suffered. The WDA remains one of the most recognisable of all Welsh brands and it must be used to promote Wales's global identity. The Welsh Government must realise that it cannot work in isolation, and must work effectively with the UK Government, using the advantages it has in terms of networks and resources, to improve the long-term prospects of the Welsh economy.
Welsh Assembly Ministers should always be willing to speak to counterparts in Westminster and the refusal by the Economic Development Minister to discuss economic development issues with the Committee was very disappointing.
In the longer term the Welsh economy has a number of strengths, amongst them a committed and loyal workforce and a number of internally recognised and successful companies in areas such as aerospace, life sciences, the steel industry and the automotive industry. Wales also provides an attractive quality of life to prospective investors, with its coast and countryside and a rich cultural history. The Welsh Government must develop a clear narrative about the benefits of Wales that can be promoted to overseas markets."
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