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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1981

Filed:

Feb. 13, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yoshiro Hayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Akira Sugihara, Tokyo, JP;

Takaki Shimura, Tokyo, JP;

Kozo Ishikawa, Yokohama, JP;

Kiyoshi Wada, Tokyo, JP;

Eiji Yamanaka, Tokyo, JP;

Shunsuke Senba, Yokohama, JP;

Assignees:

Japanese National Railways, all of, JP;

Fujitsu Limited, all of, JP;

Fujitsu Kiden Ltd., all of, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61L / ; G08G / ; G08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
246124 ; 246 / ; 246107 ; 340 23 ; 340 / ; 360 12 ; 364424 ;
Abstract

An automatic message announcement system for trains in the railroad station premises, including a train tracking circuit which tracks the location of approaching train, a trains information memory which stores information concerning each train, an edition circuit which combines the train information read out from said train information memory and a series of message patterns which include portions to be completed and which edits the message patterns to produce a series of short messages arranged sequentially according of their priority order to the content, an announcement message selection circuit which determines up to which short message among those arranged sequentially according to said priority order should be announced, in accordance with the location of the train at the time the announcement starts, and an automatic announcement system which includes a voice memory containing addressable voice segments for annoucing the message determined above.


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