Reporting system, information-processing system, server device, terminal device, and non-transitory storage medium

• US 10,388,165 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2015
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Sogabe, Haruhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Refai, Ramsey
• Application Number:
  US15/325,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20170162052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/00 Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks safety belts or body harnesses in vehicles B60R22/00; devices, apparatus or methods for life-saving in general A62B; safety devices for propulsion unit control specially adapted for, or arranged in, vehicles B60K28/00; seats constructed to protect the occupant from the effect of abnormal g-forces, e.g. crash or safety seats, B60N2/42; energy-absorbing arrangements for hand wheels for steering vehicles B62D1/11; energy-absorbing arrangements for vehicle steering columns B62D1/19; harnessing in aircraft B64D25/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/42 Determining position
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/063 using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station identification of vehicles G08G
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/091 Traffic information broadcasting broadcasting communication H04H
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles

Abstract

An information processing system acquires traveling area information, and transmits an entry signal to a server device when determined that a vehicle has entered a specific range. The entry signal includes traveling area information and specifying information for specifying the information processing system. When detecting a stop of traveling of the vehicle, the system transmits a first stop signal including the traveling area information to the server device. The server device stores the traveling area information and the specifying information, included in the entry signal, in association with each other when receiving the entry signal. The server device generates a second stop signal based on the first stop signal. The server device specifies the information processing system based on the travelling area information in the first stop signal, the stored traveling area information and the stored specifying information, and transmits the second stop signal to the specified information processing system.

Claims

1. A reporting system comprising:

an information processing system arranged on a vehicle; and

a server device that wirelessly communicates with the information processing system, wherein;

the information processing system includes;

an information acquisition unit that acquires traveling area information corresponding to information on an area where the vehicle travels;

an entry determination unit that determines whether the vehicle has entered a specific range;

an entry signal transmission unit that transmits, to the server device, an entry signal as a signal including the traveling area information acquired by the information acquisition unit and specifying information for specifying the information processing system when the entry determination unit determines that the vehicle has entered the specific range;

a stop detection unit that detects a signal associated with a stop of traveling of the vehicle;

a first transmission unit that transmits a first stop signal, as a signal including the traveling area information, to the server device when the stop detection unit detects the signal associated with the stop; and

a processing execution unit that executes a predetermined process when receiving a second stop signal as a signal including information on a stop position of a different vehicle different from the vehicle on which the information processing system is arranged, the second stop signal being transmitted from the server device when the server device receives the first stop signal transmitted from the information processing system arranged on the different vehicle;

the server device includes;

a vehicle information storage unit that stores the traveling area information and the specifying information in association with each other when receiving the entry signal, which includes the traveling area information and the specifying information and is transmitted from the entry signal transmission unit;

a signal generation unit that generates the second stop signal based on the first stop signal transmitted from the first transmission unit;

a transmission destination specifying unit that specifies the information processing system when receiving the first stop signal transmitted from the first transmission unit, based on the traveling area information and the specifying information stored in the vehicle information storage unit, the information processing system being disposed in a range defined based on the traveling area information included in the first stop signal; and

a second transmission unit that transmits the second stop signal, generated by the signal generation unit, to the information processing system specified by the transmission destination specifying unit,

wherein the vehicle information storage unit of the server device stores the specifying information with priority defined in a predetermined standard;

the second transmission unit transmits the second stop signal to the information processing system according to the priority; and

wherein the priority is lower as the specifying information is newly stored in the vehicle information storage unit of the server device.

2. The reporting system according to claim 1, wherein:

the information processing system further includes;

an exit determination unit that determines whether the vehicle has exited from the specific range; and

an exit signal transmission unit that transmits, to the server device, an exit signal as a signal including the specifying information for specifying the information processing system when the exit determination unit determines that the vehicle has exited from the specific range; and

the server device further includes;

a deletion control unit that deletes, from the vehicle information storage unit, the traveling area information associated with the specifying information included in the exit signal when receiving the exit signal transmitted from the exit signal transmission unit.

3. The reporting system according to claim 1, wherein:

the information processing system further includes a position detection unit that detects a position of the vehicle;

the first stop signal includes information indicating a current position of the vehicle detected by the position detection unit;

the signal generation unit sets one or more road areas, according to a distance from a start point located at the current position of the vehicle, based on information indicating the current position included in the first stop signal, and generates the second stop signal including information indicating the road areas as information on a stop position of the vehicle; and

the processing execution unit determines whether the vehicle is located within the road areas included in the second stop signal received by the information processing system, and executes a predetermined process in accordance with a result of determination.

4. A reporting system comprising:

an information processing system arranged on a vehicle; and

a server device that wirelessly communicates with the information processing system, wherein;

the information processing system includes;

a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires position information on the vehicle and information indicating a state of the vehicle including information on steering rotation;

an entry determination unit that determines whether the vehicle has entered a specific range;

an entry transmission unit that transmits an entry signal to the server device when the entry determination unit determines that the vehicle has entered the specific range, the entry signal including the information indicating the state of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit and specifying information for specifying the information processing system;

an area information storage unit that stores traveling area information transmitted from the server device as information on an area where the vehicle travels;

a stop detection unit that detects a signal associated with a stop of travelling of the vehicle;

a first transmission unit that transmits, to the server device, a first stop signal as a signal including the traveling area information stored in the area information storage unit when the stop detection unit detects the signal associated with the stop; and

a processing execution unit that executes a predetermined process when receiving a second stop signal as a signal including information on a stop position of a different vehicle different from the vehicle on which the information processing system is arranged, the second stop signal being transmitted from the server device when the server device receives the first stop signal transmitted from the information processing system arranged on the different vehicle, and

the server device includes;

an area information generation unit that generates the traveling area information based on the information on the state of the vehicle included in the entry signal transmitted from the entry transmission unit;

an area information transmission unit that transmits the traveling area information, generated by the area information generation unit, to the information processing system which is a transmission source of the information indicating the state of the vehicle, the information processing system specified by the specifying information included in the entry signal;

a signal generation unit that generates the second stop signal based on the first stop signal transmitted from the first transmission unit;

a signal transmission destination setting unit that sets a transmission destination, to which the second stop signal is transmitted, based on at least the traveling area information included in the first stop signal when receiving the first stop signal transmitted from the first transmission unit; and

a second transmission unit that transmits the second stop signal, generated by the signal generation unit, to the transmission destination set by the signal transmission destination setting unit;

wherein the area information generation unit generates the traveling area information based on the information on the state of the vehicle with priority defined in a predetermined standard;

the second transmission unit transmits the second stop signal to the transmission destination according to the priority; and

wherein the priority is lower as the entry signal is newly transmitted from the entry transmission unit.

5. A server device that wirelessly communicates with an information processing system arranged on a vehicle, the server device comprising:

a vehicle information storage unit that stores traveling area information in an entry signal and specifying information in the entry signal in association with each other when receiving the entry signal including the traveling area information on an area where the vehicle travels and the specifying information for specifying the information processing system, the entry signal being transmitted from the information processing system in a case where the vehicle mounting the information processing system enters a specific range;

a signal generation unit that generates a second stop signal based on a first stop signal including the traveling area information, the first stop signal being transmitted from the information processing system when the vehicle mounting the information processing system stops traveling or is in a state difficult to continue normally traveling;

a transmission destination specifying unit that specifies the information processing system, disposed within a range defined based on the traveling area information included in the first stop signal, according to the traveling area information and the specifying information stored in the vehicle information storage unit when receiving the first stop signal; and

a second transmission unit that transmits the second stop signal, generated by the signal generation unit, to the information processing system specified by the transmission destination specifying unit;

wherein the vehicle information storage unit stores the specifying information with priority defined in a predetermined standard;

the second transmission unit transmits the second stop signal to the information processing system according to the priority; and

wherein the priority is lower as the specifying information is newly stored in the vehicle information storage unit.