System and method of use for vehicular driving safety

• US 10,392,012 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2017
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adam B. Tannenbaum
• Original Assignee: Adam B. Tannenbaum
• Inventors: Tannenbaum, Adam Benjamin
• Primary Examiner(s): Soofi, Yazan A
• Application Number:
  US15/495,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20180304886A1
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 701 41
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/04 including control of propulsion units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/18 including control of braking systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/20 including control of steering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/143 Alarm means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2420/403 Image sensing, e.g. optical camera
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/18 Braking system
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/20 Steering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/00 Input parameters relating to objects
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/4041 Position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/801 Lateral distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/804 Relative longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/18 Braking system
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/20 Steering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2754/10 Spatial relation or speed relative to objects
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2754/30 Longitudinal distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2754/50 Relative longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2756/10 Involving external transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/09 Taking automatic action to avoid collision, e.g. braking and steering
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 : Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 : Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 : specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/51 : Relative positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 : involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 : for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/167 : Driving aids for lane monitoring, lane changing, e.g. blind spot detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 : specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

The invention and use method provides advanced warning of one or more proximate vehicle'"'"'s high likelihood of action, such as lane change, speed change, turn and exit by sharing impending navigation system directives among proximate vehicles. The shared directives are combined with real-time sensors data to provide drivers and autonomous vehicles with anticipated proximate vehicle actions so as to reduce the risk of unsafe distance and speeds among the proximate vehicles. By having advanced warning, a vehicle'"'"'s driver or autonomous vehicle control system has more time to anticipate and react to such actions. The system may warn and direct the driver or autonomous vehicle control system to decelerate and/or change lanes.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an inter-vehicle wireless information conveyance subsystem;

an inter-vehicle information distillation subsystem;

a GPS receiver and satellite signal processing subsystem;

an inter-vehicle information distillation subsystem;

a sensors subsystem comprising cameras and transducers for detection of position, distance and speeds of proximate vehicles;

a processor/memory subsystem;

at least one program that executes on said processor/memory subsystem for determining likelihood of impending proximate vehicle actions based on shared impending navigation directives;

said at least one program operative to convey accident-avoidance navigation directives to a user based on said shared impending navigation directives;

a vehicle control output subsystem;

a display output subsystem; and

an audio output subsystem.

2. The system as in claim 1 further comprising:

said inter-vehicle wireless information conveyance subsystem may be built into a vehicle'"'"'s infotainment system;

said inter-vehicle information distillation subsystem may be built into said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment system;

said GPS receiver and satellite signal processing subsystem may be built into said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment system;

said inter-vehicle information distillation subsystem may be built into said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment subsystem;

said process/memory subsystem may be built into said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment subsystem;

said at least one program may reside in said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment subsystem;

said vehicle control output subsystem may be built into said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment subsystem;

said display output subsystem may be built into said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment subsystem; and

said audio output subsystem may be built into said vehicle'"'"'s infotainment subsystem.

3. The system as in claim 1 further comprising:

said processor and memory subsystem may be integrated in an ancillary device;

said display output subsystem may be integrated in said ancillary device; and

said audio output subsystem may be integrated in said ancillary device.

4. A method comprising:

conveying inter-vehicle data wirelessly among proximate vehicles;

distilling from said inter-vehicle data shared impending navigation directives among said proximate vehicles;

collecting, continuously, sensors data;

processing said sensors data and said shared impending navigation directives;

determining a likelihood of an impending action by one or more of said proximate vehicles;

making no change to current state of said vehicle control subsystem, said display subsystem or sail audio subsystem if said likelihood is not high;

outputting control commands to steering, braking and engine-control subsystems if said likelihood is high; and

outputting alert messages to said display output subsystem and audio output subsystem if said likelihood is high.