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Digital traffic news evaluation method
Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
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Filing: 1989-12-07
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Granted: 1991-11-12
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Expires: 2009-12-07
Abstract
Abstract In a method for evaluating traffic announcements received in digitally encoded form in a data packet, the data packet is decoded, and after the evaluation the traffic announcements are stored in memory. Under poor broadcasting conditions, it may be uncertain whether all the traffic announcements transmitted have actually been correctly received and evaluated. For confirmation of completeness, data words that, in encoded form, include the nominal number of reports transmitted in one cycle are broadcast within each complete cycle of traffic announcements. The decoded and evaluated reports counted within one cycle are compared with this nominal number.
Inventors
- 👤 Ralf Duckeck
- 👤 Peter Bragas
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 17:37
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L1/00; H04L1/0078; H04L1/0083; H04H; H04H20/00; H04H20/16; H04H20/28; H04H20/33; H04H20/34; H04H20/53; H04H20/55; H04H40/00; H04H40/18; H04H40/27; H04H60/00; H04H60/09; H04H60/11; H04H60/27; H04H2201/00; H04H2201/10; H04H2201/13
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
149 words
A method for evaluating traffic announcements received in digitally encoded form in a data packet forming part of a broadcast radio signal a complete cycle of reports and data being repeated periodically, comprising the steps of decoding said data packet from said broadcast signal; evaluating said data packet to generate elements of traffic announcements; storing said traffic announcements in a memory (14); said evaluating step including identification and storage of a variable-value check number, contained in a predesignated portion of said data packet, which indicates a total number of reports which are being broadcast during a current cycle of data, and maintenance of a running count of reports actually received in said cycle; and comparing, at an end of each cycle, said stored variable-value check number with said running count of reports actually received, thereby permitting checking, of traffic announcement data received, for omissions due to poor transmission conditions.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
149 words
A method for evaluating traffic announcements received in digitally encoded form in a data packet forming part of a broadcast radio signal a complete cycle of reports and data being repeated periodically, comprising the steps of decoding said data packet from said broadcast signal; evaluating said data packet to generate elements of traffic announcements; storing said traffic announcements in a memory (14); said evaluating step including identification and storage of a variable-value check number, contained in a predesignated portion of said data packet, which indicates a total number of reports which are being broadcast during a current cycle of data, and maintenance of a running count of reports actually received in said cycle; and comparing, at an end of each cycle, said stored variable-value check number with said running count of reports actually received, thereby permitting checking, of traffic announcement data received, for omissions due to poor transmission conditions.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said predesignated portion of said data packet is adjacent the end of the cycle, thereby facilitating immediate execution of said comparing step upon conclusion of each cycle.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
173 words
A method for evaluating traffic announcements received in digitally encoded form in a data packet forming part of a broadcast radio signal, a complete cycle of reports and data being repeated periodically, comprising the steps of decoding said data packet from said broadcast signal; evaluating said data packet to generate elements of traffic announcements; storing said traffic announcements in a memory (14); said evaluating step including identification of a check number, contained in a predesignated portion of said data packet, which indicates a total number of reports which are being broadcast during a current cycle of data, and maintenance of a running count of reports actually received in said cycle; and comparing, at an end of each cycle, said stored check number with said running count of reports actually received, thereby permitting checking, of traffic announcement data received, for omissions due to poor transmission conditions; and wherein said predesignated portion of said data packet contains not only said check number but also indications as to the length of respective ones of said reports.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
173 words
A method for evaluating traffic announcements received in digitally encoded form in a data packet forming part of a broadcast radio signal, a complete cycle of reports and data being repeated periodically, comprising the steps of decoding said data packet from said broadcast signal; evaluating said data packet to generate elements of traffic announcements; storing said traffic announcements in a memory (14); said evaluating step including identification of a check number, contained in a predesignated portion of said data packet, which indicates a total number of reports which are being broadcast during a current cycle of data, and maintenance of a running count of reports actually received in said cycle; and comparing, at an end of each cycle, said stored check number with said running count of reports actually received, thereby permitting checking, of traffic announcement data received, for omissions due to poor transmission conditions; and wherein said predesignated portion of said data packet contains not only said check number but also indications as to the length of respective ones of said reports.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method of claim 3, wherein the indication as to the length of the reports includes the number of sequences of one group of the data packet that one report, in order to be completely represented, occupies.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
76 words
The method of claim 4, wherein a cycle of data includes traffic report sequences which may be separated from one another by other types of data, and said evaluating step includes distinguishing between four types of length indications, namely a first type including the one-sequence reports, a second type including the two-sequence reports, a third type including the reports of more than two sequences and a fourth type including the special announcements not pertaining to traffic.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
31 words
The method of claim 4, further comprising ascertaining a nominal number of sequences contained in one complete cycle comparing, with said nominal number, the sequences decoded and evaluated within one cycle.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
52 words
The method of claim 5, wherein said data packet is coded according to EBU-3244-E and the data words having the nominal number of the reports broadcast in one cycle are broadcast in block 4 of the RDS-TMC (Traffic Message Channel) group, as soon as the offset word in block 3 is C'.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
48 words
The method of claim 5, wherein the data words having the nominal number of reports broadcast in one cycle are broadcast in two sequences, wherein the first and second type, on the one hand, and the third and fourth type, on the other, each form one data word.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method of claim 8, wherein the data words having the nominal number of the first and second type are distinguished from those of the third and fourth type by the state of a preceding distinguishing bit.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method of claim 9, characterized in that the nominal numbers of the first and third type occupy eight bits, and the nominal numbers of the second and fourth type occupy seven bits.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
126 words
A vehicle radio receiver having a decoder (18) decoding traffic announcements received in digitally encoded form, having a computer (12), having an input connected to an output of said decoder (18), for evaluating a received data packet and a memory (14), bidirectionally coupled to said computer (12), for storing the traffic announcements, wherein the computer (12) includes a program memory (16) having a control program, by means of which said computer is controlled in such a way that data words within each complete cycle of traffic announcements, which in encoded form include a variable-value nominal number of reports broadcast in the current cycle, are decoded and evaluated, and that the reports decoded and evaluated within this same cycle are counted and compared with the nominal number.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
126 words
A vehicle radio receiver having a decoder (18) decoding traffic announcements received in digitally encoded form, having a computer (12), having an input connected to an output of said decoder (18), for evaluating a received data packet and a memory (14), bidirectionally coupled to said computer (12), for storing the traffic announcements, wherein the computer (12) includes a program memory (16) having a control program, by means of which said computer is controlled in such a way that data words within each complete cycle of traffic announcements, which in encoded form include a variable-value nominal number of reports broadcast in the current cycle, are decoded and evaluated, and that the reports decoded and evaluated within this same cycle are counted and compared with the nominal number.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
80 words
The radio receiver of claim 11, wherein a second control program is present in the program memory (16), by means of which program additional indications as to the length of the reports, in particular of the sequences of the data packet that are occupied by the reports, are ascertained and, from them, the nominal number of sequences contained in one complete cycle is calculated, and that the sequences decoded and evaluated within one cycle are compared with the nominal number.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
72 words
The radio receiver of claim 11, wherein a third control program is present in the program memory (16), which program determines, based upon the nominal number, the required size of a memory zone to be reserved for storage and which evaluates whether the nominal number matches the decoded and evaluated reports or sequences, and on that basis decides whether to write, into the reserved zone of the memory (14), the traffic announcements.
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