Operation status reproducing device, display device, and operation status reproducing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11654944-B2
Application number	US-201616335288-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 5, 2016
Priority date	Oct 5, 2016
Publication date	May 23, 2023
Grant date	May 23, 2023

Abstract

An operation status reproducing device includes an onboard information obtaining unit that obtains onboard information corresponding to date and time from an onboard device mounted on a designated train being a train specified by a train number and the date and time externally designated, a specific event detecting unit that specifies time at which a specific event occurs by analyzing the onboard information, a ground information obtaining unit that obtains ground information in a certain period including the time at which the specific event occurs from a ground device, an external information obtaining unit that obtains external information including weather information in a certain period including the time at which the specific event occurs, and a reproduction image generating unit that generates a reproduction image illustrating a past operation status of the designated train based on the onboard information, the ground information, and the external information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An operation status reproducing device to reproduce an operation status of a train based on onboard information managed by an onboard device mounted on each train of a railway system and ground information managed by a ground device to monitor an operation status of each train of the railway system, the operation status reproducing device comprising:
an onboard information obtainer to obtain the onboard information corresponding to a date, a start time, and an end time from the onboard device mounted on a designated train being a train specified by a train number and the date, the start time, and the end time externally designated, wherein the date, the start time, and the end time define an externally-designated time period for the train;
a specific event detector to specify time at which a specific event occurs by analyzing the onboard information obtained by the onboard information obtainer;
a ground information obtainer to obtain the ground information in a certain period including the time at which the specific event detected by the specific event detector occurs from the ground device, wherein the certain period is only a portion of the externally-designated time period;
an external information obtainer to obtain external information including weather information in the certain period including the time at which the specific event detected by the specific event detector occurs; and
a reproduction image generator to generate a reproduction image illustrating a past operation status of the designated train based on the onboard information, the ground information, and the external information.

2. The operation status reproducing device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display device to display the reproduction image generated by the reproduction image generator.

3. The operation status reproducing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein a display device forming the onboard device is allowed to display the reproduction image generated by the reproduction image generator.

4. The operation status reproducing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the reproduction image generator includes:
a display information reproducer to generate display information for reproducing an image and character information displayed on a display device installed in an operator's room of the designated train based on the onboard information in the certain period;
a device operating information reproducer to generate operating information for reproducing contents of operation executed on a device mounted on the designated train based on the onboard information in the certain period;
a ground information reproducer to generate operation status reproduction information for reproducing an operation status of the designated train based on the ground information in the certain period;
an external display information generator to generate external display information indicating weather in a travel position of the designated train based on the external information in the certain period; and
a display information synthesizer to generate the reproduction image by synthesizing the display information, the operating information, the operation status reproduction information, and the external display information.

5. The operation status reproducing device according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a memory to hold the display information, the operating information, the operation status reproduction information, and the external display information as reproduction information; and
a reproduction controller to read out the reproduction information from the memory and output to the display information synthesizer, and make the display information synthesizer generate the reproduction image based on the output reproduction information.

6. The operation status reproducing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the reproduction controller executes a process of erasing the oldest reproduction information from the memory when the reproduction information held by the memory exceeds a certain value and a process of erasing the reproduction information recorded prior to current date and time by a certain period or longer out of the reproduction information held by the memory from the memory.

7. The operation status reproducing device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an audio reproducer to generate audio information output when the designated train is operated based on the onboard information in the certain period.

8. A display device that displays the reproduction image generated by the operation status reproducing device according to claim 1 .

9. An operation status reproducing method to reproduce an operation status of a train based on onboard information managed by an onboard device mounted on each train of a railway system and ground information managed by a ground device to monitor an operation status of each train of the railway system, the operation status reproducing method comprising:
obtaining the onboard information corresponding to a date, a start time, and an end time from the onboard device mounted on a designated train being a train specified by a train number and the date, the start time, and the end time externally designated, by an onboard information obtainer, wherein the date, the start time, and the end time define an externally-designated time period for the train;
specifying time at which a specific event occurs by analyzing the obtained onboard information, by a specific event detector;
obtaining the ground information in a certain period including time at which the specific event detected by the specific event detector occurs from the ground device, by a ground information obtainer, wherein the certain period is only a portion of the externally-designated time period;
obtaining external information including weather information in the certain period including the time at which the specific event detected by the specific event detector occurs, by an external information obtainer; and
generating a reproduction image illustrating a past operation status of the designated train based on the onboard information, the ground information, and the external information, by a reproduction image generator.

10. The operation status reproducing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the onboard information comprises past operation of the train including an operation state of a device mounted on the train; and
wherein the ground information comprises position information of the train.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Ito Takahiro
• Goda Hiromi
• Nakagawa Masayo
• TAKENAGA Hiroe

Classifications

• B61L27/40

  Handling position reports or trackside vehicle data · CPC title

• B61L27/00

  Central railway traffic control systems; Trackside control; Communication systems specially adapted therefor · CPC title

• B61L15/0072

  On-board train data handling · CPC title

• B61L15/009 Primary

  On-board display devices · CPC title

• B61L27/57

  for vehicles or trains, e.g. trackside supervision of train conditions · CPC title