ES2254025B1 - VIDEO LOCATION SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTATION. - Google Patents

Abstract

Video location system for transport, comprising at least one or more cameras (3) for capturing moving images, installed inside and / or outside of a transport vehicle (4), and related to means (5 ) wireless transmission, such as a UMTS telephone or other similar system, and portable display devices (1), provided with a screen (2) and means for receiving images captured by cameras (3), operationally suitable to inform the possible users of the vehicle (4) of the location of the vehicle, its environment and / or its interior.

Description

Video tracking system for transport.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a system of video location for transport, public or private, which allows to know at the moment that the user wishes, in which place of its usual route is the transport, the conditions of your environment for an image and decide in advance if you expect it or give up

Field of the Invention

This invention is applicable to different types of transport, public or private, such as bus, subway, tram, trolleybus, commercial transport (merchandise trucks, delivery vans, courier ... etc.), taxis, and in general all the one that lends itself to its use.

Background of the invention

Currently, one of the most common problems that transport users have, is the unpunctuality of same, which happens frequently due to various problems that may arise while doing their route, such as: works unforeseen, accidents, traffic collapses ..., which make you lose annual hours of work for those who use transportation public for its displacement.

In some cities, most stations important have information panels with the detail of route, but ambiguously and with the inconvenience that for know the information the user is obliged to move to the station or stop, not knowing how long it will take Wait for transportation.

Finally, computerized panels have a high cost and are subject to street vandalism, which makes that its use be minority.

Description of the invention

To solve the aforementioned problems, devised the video location system for object transport of the invention, which presents constructive particularities aimed at allowing the user of public or private transport know in advance, by easy request, where it is located the vehicle in question and the waiting time, thus deciding, if opt for this type of transport or instead choose another.

This system comprises at least one camera of video installed in the means of transport and provided with some Wireless, real-time broadcast media of images captured on either side or all of the middle of transport, focusing on the path you take, and some devices display, portable, and equipped with a screen and means of reception and access to images transmitted from The vehicle in question. These display devices will be carried by potential transport users, which will let you know in advance where or on which path the means of transport you expect and decide if you are still waiting or give up

Such display devices can show, in real time, the images captured by the cameras located in any transport, marking or entering the Concrete vehicle code.

This system allows potential users a optimization of your time, avoiding unnecessary losses of time at the stops waiting for the means of transport.

At present it is possible to use, for this system, a mobile phone network in which both transmitters such as receivers are cellular terminals, or via Satellite, easily accessible. This allows the portable device used by potential users be their own mobile phone, requesting the service by calling a number of phone that the telephone company has assigned to that bus as  code, for example.

If, in addition, the bus is equipped with a system GPS location and a street map, the person can not only visually recognize the transport route, but may know, at the same time, through your mobile, the exact location of the means of transport, upon receiving the GPS information from the transport in question and know the approximate time it will take to the point of user stop.

Another advantage of this invention would be, the safety with which children. access school transport, simply calling at the right time and connecting to the system Visual installed in the means of transport. In this case, at least A camera must be oriented inside the vehicle.

If an appointment is proposed to a person at one point determined, you can know if the person mentioned is in the agreed place, just by dialing the telephone number of the transportation that makes that route, as long as it is in one place public, bus stop, public road or other.

In case of vandalism against transport public, as sometimes happens, this system allows detect the beginning of the conflict and identify the possible aggressors

It also has other added advantages, such as are the capture and video recording of accidents, traffic jams, serious traffic offenses, crimes committed on the road public, altercations, location of people in search and capture, terrorists, etc., that can be denounced by all those users that at the time of the events may be connected to the system

The company that owns the transport, so general public administration, could apply to this service Additional charging numbers, bringing the revenue raised by this new service would help them make more profitable transport or even lower prices.

Among the usable telephone systems, the UMTS mobile telephony allows receiving on the screen of mobile phones images and videos taken hundreds of kilometers away where we are from

Description of the figures

To complement the description that is being performing, and in order to facilitate the understanding of characteristics of the invention, is attached herein descriptive a set of drawings in which, for illustrative purposes and not limiting, the following has been represented:

- Figure 1 shows a schematic view of the system composed of several portable devices of visualization, image receivers, represented in this case specifically by mobile phone terminals, and cameras Imagers and media for transmission, installed in a vehicle

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In the exemplary embodiment shown in the Figure, the video tracking system for transport It comprises one or more image capture cameras (3) in movement, installed inside or outside a vehicle (4) of transport, these cameras (3) being related to some means (5) of transmission of the captured images.

In turn, the system includes some devices laptops (1) equipped with a display (2), such as a telephone UMTS technology, for access via a call and real-time display by the user of the images captured by the cameras (3), being able to identify the position and situation of said vehicle (4).

Additionally, the vehicle (4) can incorporate to the system a global tracking device (6) or GPS, related to the means (5) of transmission to provide a more concrete information and even your position in a street.

Once nature is sufficiently described of the invention, as well as a preferred embodiment, for the appropriate purposes that the materials, form, size and arrangement of the elements described may be modified, as long as this does not imply an alteration of the essential features of the invention claimed in continuation.

Claims (6)

1. A video tracking system for transport, characterized in that it comprises: - one or more image capture cameras (3) in motion, located in a transport vehicle (4), public or private, and connected to wireless transmission means (5) of the cited images, and, - display devices (1), portable, equipped with a screen (2) and reception means of the images captured by the cameras (3), being said display devices (1) operatively capable of reporting to the possible transport users of its location, its environment and / or its interior. 2. A system according to claim 1, characterized in that the means (5) for transmitting the images captured by the cameras (3) are accessible by means of an identification code of the transport vehicle (4) by its route, schedule, location or another reason. 3. A system according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a global or GPS tracking device (6), arranged in the transport vehicle (4) and related to the transmission means (5), operatively suitable for sending the data referring to the overall positioning of the vehicle, together with the images captured by the cameras (3). 4. A system according to claim 1, characterized in that the transmission and reception means (5, 1) comprise cellular telephone devices integrated in one or more conventional open-access cellular telephone networks. 5. A system according to claim 1, wherein the means (5, 1) of transmission and reception devices comprise integrated telephony satellite in one or more conventional satellite telephone networks. A system according to claim 1, characterized in that the chambers (3) are arranged and oriented towards the outside and / or towards the interior of the vehicle (4) of the vehicle.