US 12,380,752 B2
System, method and computer program product for automatically opening a gate of a public transport station
Satoru Harada, London (GB); Shuichiro Sakikawa, London (GB); and Yutaka Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/279,244
Filed by Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 17, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/057072
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 29, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/200185, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 21164341 (EP), filed on Mar. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0153330 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. G07C 9/10 (2020.01); G07C 9/27 (2020.01); G07C 9/28 (2020.01)
CPC G07C 9/10 (2020.01) [G07C 9/27 (2020.01); G07C 9/28 (2020.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gate system comprising a plurality of gates of a public transport station configured to open a gate automatically, the gate system comprising:
a plurality of transmitters, each transmitter being installed at one of a plurality of gates and configured to send a transmitter signal including a gate identifier identifying the respective gate;
a plurality of gate control devices, each gate control device configured to
receive a validation signal from a passenger's mobile device, the validation signal including a gate identifier from a transmitter signal selected by the mobile device based on signal frequencies of a plurality of transmitter signals,
compare the gate identifier included in the received validation signal with a gate identifier of the gate controlled by the gate control device, and
open the gate if the gate identifier included in the received validation signal corresponds to the gate identifier of the gate controlled by the gate control device.