Patent ID: 7804424
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. An automatic guide apparatus for traffic facilities, comprising: an input device for obtaining circumstances around the traffic facilities to be operated as an image and a voice; a database having image data and voice data in connection with the traffic facilities stored in advance; a comparison device for comparing the image data and the voice data obtained by said input device with the image data and voice data stored in said database; a recognition device for recognizing and specifying, where results obtained by comparing the image data and the voice data coincided, contents of the data; an output device for informing an operator of results recognized and specified by the recognition device in a letter of character, an image or a voice; a storage device which, where the image data and the voice data corresponding to objects obtained by said input device are not present within said database, make the image data or the voice data corresponding to new objects correspond to a position on the map to newly store them in said database; a data update device which, where the image data and the voice data corresponding to the objects are different from the image data and the voice data stored in said database, updates them to new image data and voice data to store them in said database; a judgment device for carrying out some judgment on a basis of the matter recognized or specified by said recognition device to inform an operator of directions based on judged results in a letter or character, an image or a voice by said output device and to direct said output device of a fixed action on the basis of the judged results and automatically actuate a brake device or a driving device; and a plane development processing device comprising: a plane image conversion device for converting perspective image data with respect to the circumstances around the traffic facilities obtained by said input device into plane image data having a perspective sense eliminated; and a plane image recognition device for recognizing and specifying, on a basis of results obtained by comparing the converted plane image data with the image data stored in the database by said comparison device, the contents of said data.