Burglarproof and event-recording apparatus for vehicle and method for the same

• US 20030201875A1
• Filed: 04/30/2002
• Published: 10/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EJT Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Lite-On Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Kuo, Jerry
• Granted Patent: US 6,753,764 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/426.18
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/205 Mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/102 a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/305 using a camera

Abstract

A burglarproof and event-recording apparatus for a vehicle comprises at least one camera arranged on the vehicle to surveil an environmental image for the vehicle and store the image to an image-storing and logic-controlling unit until an alarm flag is set to 1 by the image-storing and logic-controlling unit. The apparatus will raise alarm and set the alarm flag to 1 once the vehicle is intruded. At this time, the image is stored in a currently-used memory block of the image-storing and logic-controlling unit and the intrusion condition is formed to the vehicle owner.

Claims

1. A burglarproof and event-recording method for a vehicle, comprising following steps:

(a) surveilling an environmental image for the vehicle and storing the image to a memory block of a image-storing unit;

(b) setting an alarm flag to 1 once the vehicle is intruded and continuing storing the image to the memory block;

(c) informing vehicle owner through a mobile communication system.

2. The burglarproof and event-recording method as in claim 1, wherein the environmental image for the vehicle in the step (a) is shot by camera.

3. The burglarproof and event-recording method as in claim 1, wherein the alarm is generated once the vehicle in the step (b) is intruded.

4. The burglarproof and event-recording method as in claim 1, wherein the mobile communication system in step (c) is one of GSM mobile communication system, GPRS mobile communication system and 3G mobile communication system.

5. A burglarproof and event-recording apparatus for a vehicle, comprising

a plurality of cameras arranged on a body of the vehicle to surveil an environmental image for the vehicle;

an image-storing and logic-controlling unit used to store image shot by the cameras and execute controlling steps for the apparatus;

a communication unit sending the stored image and informing vehicle owner once an alarm flag is set to 1 by the image-storing and logic-controlling unit.

6. The burglarproof and event-recording apparatus as in claim 5, wherein the image-storing and logic-controlling unit has two memory blocks.

7. The burglarproof and event-recording apparatus as in claim 5, wherein the communication unit is a GSM mobile phone.