An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation that may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a video cassette recorder (VCR), medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Adaptive pattern recognition based control system and method

A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof.

Mobile communication device

A system for notifying passengers waiting for public transit vehicles (12) of the status of the vehicles (12), including the arrival times of vehicles (12) at stops (20). The system includes global position determining devices (14) located in the vehicles (12) for determining the location of the vehicles (12) along their routes. A central processor or computer (16) is coupled to the global position determining devices (14) for receiving the locations of vehicles (12) therefrom. The processor (16) is programmed to compute and update from the present location of the transit system vehicles (12) and electronically stored information a transit data table which includes status information for all the vehicles (12) in the system, including the location of scheduled stops, connections to other transit vehicles at the stops (20), and the arrival times of vehicles at their stops (20). The vehicle status and other information, including news and advertisements are then made available for public access in a manner geared to the locations of the vehicles (12), the time of day, day of week, date, location, season, holiday, weather, etc.

Public transit vehicle arrival information system

An advance notification system (10) notifies users of the impending arrival of a vehicle, for example, an overnight package delivery vehicle, at a particular vehicle stop. The system generally includes an on-board vehicle control unit VCU (12) for each vehicle and a base state control unit BSCU (14) for sending messages to user computers (29) in order to inform the users when the vehicle resides at a certain predefined time period, distance, prior stop, location point from the vehicle stop. Moreover, the BSCU, a computer network, and software located on a user computer may be combined in a plurality of configurations for communicating a message of the impending arrival of a particular vehicle before it arrives. Each vehicle control unit VCU (12) includes a microprocessor controller (16). The VCU sends vehicle location and/or stop information to the BSCU. The BSCU compares the vehicle route stop list with route management software, then determines when to send an impending arrival message by the system operator.

Advanced notification systems and methods utilizing a computer network

Generally, the present invention monitors and communicates travel data transmitted from vehicles being monitored by the system to users requesting travel information on a particular vehicle. A travel data storage unit receives and stores the travel data. When a user desires to view some or all of this travel data, the user submits a request to a data manager. In response, the data manager retrieves the appropriate information from the travel data stored in the travel data storage unit and transmits this information to the user. The data manager may communicate the information in a variety of mediums and preferably contact information is predefined that enables the data manager to determine which medium is preferable and how to establish communication once the medium is determined.

System and method for an advance notification system for monitoring and reporting proximity of a vehicle

A system for displaying waiting times for buses (2) approaching various stops (1) of a network. The system comprises means for generating electromagnetic signals (8) whose addresses are based on the buses, fixed receivers (9) of said signals for display purposes at the stops themselves, and preferably also portable appliances (10) also capable of receiving said signals and suitable for displaying the waiting times for buses at any stop of the network in response to interrogation by users bearing said appliances.

System for informing users about urban transport

The installation is intended to inform users of a bus network about waiting times for buses at stops in the network, the installation including a central station suitable for transmitting radio signals relating to the real instantaneous positions of the buses and portable receiver appliances (1) suitable for displaying waiting times on their own screens (3). Each appliance has an appliance identification symbol recorded therein and also (at 11) an expiry date, and it is possible to obtain the desired displays on the screen only if said appliance is used earlier than said date. Provision is made for renewing the appliance remotely for new subscription periods at the end of each subscription.

Installation for informing users of a bus network about waiting times for the buses

A system for informing users of a bus network about waiting times for buses at stops of the network comprises means (3-6) for generating and transmitting electrical signals representative of the distance (d) between each bus (1) and the "next" stop (2), and means (7) associated with each stop and organized to receive said signals, to select therefrom those signals that concern said stop, and to display at said stop data relating to the waiting times for the "approaching" buses. The system also includes means for generating electrical signals representative of two past real average bus speeds relating to two different periods immediately before the instant at which the signals are generated, and means for using the average speeds in order to determine the waiting times to be displayed.

Systems for informing users about waiting times for buses at stops in a network

A portable appliance (1) is provided for informing the users of a bus network about waiting times for buses at various stops of the network. Simple depressions of keys (3, 4, 5) cause appropriate displays to appear on a screen (2) of the appliance, enable a plurality of bus driving distances approaching respective predetermined stops of the network to be stored, and simply pressing on a button (6 or 7) makes it possible to cause any stored driving distance to be selectively displayed on said screen, together with visible information concerning the waiting times for buses at the stop approached by the final driving distance.

Portable appliances for informing bus users

A method of optimizing radio communication between a fixed base station having a plurality of antennas and a mobile station by applying, in the base station, processing to all signals S i (t) received or transmitted via each of the antennas so as to determine corresponding corrected signals S i (t)=h i (-t)×S i (t), where h i (-t) is an approximation to the time reversal of the impulse response h i (t) between antenna and the mobile station.

Eric Carreel

Papers

System for informing users about urban transport

Installation for informing users of a bus network about waiting times for the buses

Systems for informing users about waiting times for buses at stops in a network

Portable appliances for informing bus users

Method of optimizing radio communication between a base and a mobile