Video system as method ensuring the safe driving of cars

• US 20040233285A1
• Filed: 05/22/2003
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Katie Seleznev, Stanislav Vitruk
• Original Assignee: Katie Seleznev, Stanislav Vitruk
• Inventors: Seleznev, Katie, Vitruk, Stanislav
• Application Number:
  US10/443,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20040233285A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/00 Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/27 providing all-round vision, e.g. using omnidirectional cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/30 providing vision in the non-visible spectrum, e.g. night or infrared vision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/04 Mounting of cameras operative during drive; Arrangement of controls thereof relative to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0026 Windows, e.g. windscreen
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/004 outside the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0052 using screws, bolts, rivets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/105 using multiple cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/106 using night vision cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/802 for monitoring and displaying vehicle exterior blind spot views
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8053 for bad weather conditions or night vision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/8066 for monitoring rearward traffic

Abstract

The present invention relates to means of ensuring a safety of the driving of automobiles and includes Video System, enabling for a driver, without changing his posture at the steering wheel, to have the sheer view of an area. Video System is the new method in the achievement of an observation of a locality and also of the analysis with a driver all, what has taken place around the car. A locality from the front the driver watches visually, all situated on the car'"'"'s right and left sides and from behind he observes on screen picture. The sheer visibility around a car allows a driver completely check a situation and in case of a need to maneuver to avert accidents.

Claims

1. The present invention includes:

Video System as a new method, first enabling for a car'"'"'s driver to achieve the sheer, without blind spots, lateral and rear view of an area;

for the first time attained the sheer view of an area in the immediate nearness and remote for a car, and in the combination with the front visual observation, a creation of the view on 360 degrees;

first allows for the driver, without turning his head and body, to see all that is going around his car;

thanks to a reaching of a complete view of a locality, the decision of the practical problem of radical improvement of safe driving; and

the substitution with this new method of an existent now, but imperfect system of mirrors, accompanied by blind spots in a viewing with driver locality.

2. The invention Video System as a new method of ensuring the sheer view of an area around a car and the safety of driving includes:

the installation of video cameras outside of a car as the most important condition for the sheer, without blind spots, view of a locality;

the establishment in the video camera one or two wide angle lenses, reaching together the angle of a survey 190-200 degrees to widen the observation of a locality;

the installation in the video camera Night Vision Light-Emitting Diodes for an automatic adjustment of an even visibility in the night time;

the transmission from the video camera on the video screen, installed on an instrument panel in front of the car'"'"'s steering wheel, the crystal clear color image of an area'"'"'s relief and situated on it objects.

3. The invention Video System as a new method of ensuring the sheer view of an area around a car and the safety of driving, as defined in claim 2, wherein said about the video screen, includes:

the singling out on the video screen of a range-finder emergency zone, which enables a driver to form a correct estimate of the situation near the car and realize a maneuvering with it without the accidents.