Device and method for detecting and preprocessing vehicle, traffic and/or driver related data

• US 20030137407A1
• Filed: 11/04/2002
• Published: 07/24/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Kersken, Ulrich, Hessling, Matthias, Hahlweg, Cornelius, Draeger, Gerd, Petzold, Bernd
• Granted Patent: US 7,606,657 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/425.5
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/34038 Web, http, ftp, internet, intranet server
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/45031 Manufacturing semiconductor wafers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0968 Systems involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096888 where input information is obtained using learning systems, e.g. history databases

Abstract

A device and a method of detecting and preprocessing vehicle data, traffic data, and/or driver data, such as the speed, direction of travel, engine condition, weather conditions, heart rate, etc., is described, in which the time and location of recording the data are also recorded in addition to the data mentioned. The position determination may be accomplished in particular by a positioning system such as GPS. The position may be adjusted using a digital map. The recorded data is preferably preprocessed in real time (4), coded, and/or compressed and/or subjected to a statistical analysis (5), linked mathematically/logically (6) and recorded and/or transmitted (7).

Claims

1. A method of detecting and preprocessing vehicle data, traffic data, and/or driver data, in which data pertaining to the vehicle, the traffic situation, and the driver is compiled during a trip, preprocessed and made available for further analysis,

wherein the time and location of recording the data are also recorded along with the recorded data.

2. The method as recited in claim 1,

wherein the data processing is performed by developing long-term statistics, short-term statistics and/or by data compression.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 or 2,

wherein data acquisition is performed in a person-specific, in particular driver-specific, manner.

4. The method as recited in one of claims 1 through 3,

wherein the data detected is correlated with a digital map, preferably by linking the data acquisition with a navigation system.

5. A device for acquisition and preprocessing of vehicle data, traffic data, and/or driver data, containing sensors (1, 2) for sampling data based on the vehicle, traffic, and/or driver, as well as containing processing units (4, 5, 6) and memory units (7) for the data recorded, wherein it contains a clock as well as a position sensor for recording the time and location along with the other data.