Patent ID: 8296045
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A traffic information processing apparatus, comprising: a format unifying device which unifies input traffic information with different formats to traffic information with unified format; and a traffic information integrating device which corrects or complements the traffic information with unified format based on a knowledge base to obtain traffic information which is consistent with each other, so as to integrate the traffic information, wherein the knowledge base is external to the apparatus or internal to the apparatus, wherein the traffic information integrating device receives a plurality of pieces of the traffic information with the unified format relating to a location, compares traffic status for the location included in a first piece among the plurality of pieces of traffic information with traffic status included in other pieces of the traffic information relating to the location, determines whether there is a conflict between the first piece of the traffic information and the other pieces of the traffic information, and corrects or complements the first piece of the traffic information to be consistent with the other pieces of the traffic information.