发明名称 METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING TOLL COLLECTION INFORMATION BASED ON A NUMBER OF OCCUPANTS IN A VEHICLE
摘要 A method of communicating information regarding a number of occupants in a vehicle for an electronic toll collection system having an antenna at a toll lane entrance, the vehicle and a transponder in the vehicle, includes detecting occupancy in the vehicle by at least one sensor in the vehicle, computing a number of one or more occupants based on the detected occupancy by the at least one sensor, setting one of a plurality of toll configurations based on the number of one or more occupants, transmitting the one of the plurality of toll configurations and account information associated with the transponder to the antenna, receiving the one of the plurality of toll configurations and the account information from the transponder, and charging a predetermined toll amount on an account corresponding to the received account information based on the one of the plurality of toll configurations from the transponder.
申请公布号 US2015379782(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.12.31
申请号 US201414316488 申请日期 2014.06.26
申请人 Alpine Electronics, Inc. 发明人 Nakagawa Atsushi
分类号 G07B15/06 主分类号 G07B15/06
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A method of communicating information regarding a number of occupants in a vehicle for an electronic toll collection system comprising at least one antenna at a toll lane entrance, the vehicle and a transponder in the vehicle, comprising: detecting occupancy in the vehicle by at least one sensor in the vehicle; computing a number of one or more occupants based on the detected occupancy by the at least one sensor; setting one of a plurality of toll configurations based on the number of one or more occupants; transmitting the one of the plurality of toll configurations and account information associated with the transponder to the antenna; receiving the one of the plurality of toll configurations and the account information from the transponder, and charging a predetermined toll amount on an account corresponding to the received account information based on the one of the plurality of toll configurations from the transponder.
地址 Tokyo JP