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US 12,431,020 · App. 18/282,868 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Boarding support system, boarding support method and program recording medium

Inventors: Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP); Tetsuro Hasegawa (Tokyo, JP); Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo, JP); Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo, JP); Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
G08G1/123G06Q10/02G06V20/52G06V40/161G06V2201/08
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Patent No.
US 12,431,020
App. No.
18/282,868
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A boarding support system, comprises: reception part for receiving an information of a taxicab reserved by a user of the taxicab from a dispatch system executing dispatch of the taxicab; image acquiring part for acquiring an image based on the information of a taxicab, in which the taxicab running for picking up as a response to a reservation is captured from a fixed-point camera which is installed at a predetermined position on a road and capable of taking an image of a taxicab running for picking up the user; and display part for causing a predetermined display device to display an information for identifying the taxicab by using the taxicab image.

Claims (42)

1. A boarding support system, comprising:

at least a processor; and

a memory in circuit communication with the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to execute program instructions stored in the memory to:

acquire an image from a fixed-point camera which is installed at a predetermined position on a road and configured to take the image of a taxicab which is reserved by a user and running for picking up the user;

receive information on the taxicab from a dispatch system;

acquire the image in which the taxicab is captured from the fixed-point camera based on the information received from the dispatch system;

cause a terminal device carried by the user and a bulletin board to display information for identifying the taxicab by using the image received from the fixed-point camera;

prospect a pick-up site by the taxicab or an entering direction of the taxicab to the pick-up site based on a location of the fixed-point camera and a travelling direction of the taxicab,

wherein, as the information for identifying the taxicab, the pick-up site by the taxicab or the entering direction to the pick-up site is displayed.

2. The boarding support system according to claim 1 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is an external appearance image of the taxicab.

3. The boarding support system according to claim 1 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is an image in which a driver's face of the taxicab.

4. The boarding support system according to claim 1 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is information characteristic of a vehicle recognized from the image of the taxicab.

5. The boarding support system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor further executes determining a waiting site of the taxicab from a background image of the image received from the fixed-point camera, and

causing the terminal device and the bulletin board to display a map indicating the waiting site of the taxicab.

6. The boarding support system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor further executes prospecting an arrival time of the taxicab based on the location of the fixed-point camera and a time point at which the taxicab is captured by the fixed-point camera,

wherein the arrival time of the taxicab is displayed as the information for identifying the taxicab.

7. The boarding support system according to claim 1 , configured by a server executing operations as a response to a request from the terminal device.

8. A boarding support method, wherein

a computer that is capable of acquiring image from a fixed-point camera which is installed at a predetermined position on a road and capable of taking an image of a taxicab which is reserved by a user and running for picking up the user executes:

receiving information on the taxicab from a dispatch system;

acquiring the image in which the taxicab is captured from the fixed-point camera based on the information received from the dispatch system;

causing a terminal device carried by the user and a bulletin board to display information for identifying the taxicab using the image of the taxicab;

prospecting a pick-up site by the taxicab or an entering direction of the taxicab to the pick-up site based on a location of the fixed-point camera and a travelling direction of the taxicab,

wherein, as the information for identifying the taxicab, the pick-up site by the taxicab or the entering direction to the pick-up site is displayed.

9. The boarding support method according to claim 8 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is an external appearance image of the taxicab.

10. The boarding support method according to claim 8 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is an image in which a driver's face of the taxicab is captured.

11. The boarding support method according to claim 8 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is information characteristic of a vehicle recognized from the image of the taxicab.

12. The boarding support method according to claim 8 , wherein the computer further executes determining a waiting site of the taxicab from a background image of the image received from the fixed-point camera,

wherein the computer causes the terminal device and the bulletin board to display a map indicating the waiting site of the taxicab.

13. The boarding support method according to claim 8 , wherein the computer further executes prospecting an arrival time of the taxicab based on the location of the fixed-point camera and a time point at which the taxicab is captured by the fixed-point camera,

wherein the arrival time of the taxicab is displayed as the information for identifying the taxicab.

14. The boarding support method according to claim 8 , wherein the computer is configured by a server executing operations as a response to a request from the terminal device.

15. A non-transitory program recording medium, storing a program that causes a computer capable of acquiring an image from a fixed-point camera which is installed at a predetermined position on a road and capable of taking image of a taxicab which is reserved by a user and running for picking up the user to execute:

a process of receiving information on the taxicab from a dispatch system;

a process of acquiring the image in which the taxicab is captured from the fixed-point camera based on the information received from the dispatch system;

a process of causing a terminal device carried by the user and a bulletin board display to display information for identifying the taxicab by using the image received from the fixed-point camera;

a process of prospecting a pick-up site by the taxicab or an entering direction of the taxicab to the pick-up site based on a location of the fixed-point camera and a travelling direction of the taxicab,

wherein, as the information for identifying the taxicab, the pick-up site by the taxicab or the entering direction to the pick-up site is displayed.

16. The non-transitory program recording medium according to claim 15 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is an external appearance image of the taxicab.

17. The non-transitory program recording medium according to claim 15 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is an image in which a driver's face of the taxicab is captured.

18. The non-transitory program recording medium according to claim 15 , wherein the information for identifying the taxicab is information characteristic of a vehicle recognized from the image of the taxicab.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2023
From: KOBAYASHI, KOSEI; HASEGAWA, TETSURO; AMINAKA, HIROAKI; YANAGISAWA, KEI; OGATA, KAZUKI
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064951/0105 →
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