Audio-video recorder for vehicles

• US 20060259218A1
• Filed: 11/14/2005
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Chiao Tung University (Government of The Republic of China)
• Original Assignee: National Chiao Tung University (Government of The Republic of China)
• Inventors: Peng, Hsin-Yuan, Chen, Chao-Jung, Wu, Bing-Fei
• Application Number:
  US11/273,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20060259218A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/35
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/16 Anti-collision systems road vehicle drive control systems for predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision otherwise than by control of a particular sub-unit B60W30/08
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/167 Driving aids for lane monitoring, lane changing, e.g. blind spot detection

Abstract

The present invention relates to an audio-video recorder for vehicles, which is capable of judging whether the vehicles are at risk or emergent situation, then, if necessary, activating the audio-video recording of the driving process, and preserving the data after encryption. If there is any traffic accident happened and some accident causes need to be judged, the data preserved by the recorder can serve as an important basis.

Claims

1. An audio-video recorder for vehicles, comprising:

a micro-controller for judging whether a vehicle enters a dangerous situation and receiving an external emergency signal;

at least an image capture device for receiving a capture-start signal and outputting image data;

at least a sound capture device for receiving a capture-start signal and outputting sound data;

a data processing core for processing the data outputted by the image capture device and the sound capture device, compressing and encrypting the data and outputting the encrypted data; and

at least a storage medium for receiving and storing the data outputted by the data processing core,

wherein the audio-video recorder is initiated when the micro-controller judges that the vehicle enters a dangerous situation and lasts a short period of time, and the data processing core starts receiving image and sound data from the image capture device and the sound capture device;

after being processed by the data processing core, the image and sound data are stored in the storage medium.

2. The audio-video recorder according to claim 1, wherein the micro-controller not only receives the external emergency signal but also judges a current emergent situation by means of its internal calculation to determine whether the audio-video recorder should be on.

3. The audio-video recorder according to claim 1, wherein the image capture device includes image-sensing modules such as CCD and CMOS.

4. The audio-video recorder according to claim 1, wherein the data processing core comprises an image processing unit, a sound processing unit, and a data encryption unit.

5. The audio-video recorder according to claim 4, wherein the image processing unit executes image processing and image compression by means of hardware and software.

6. The audio-video recorder according to claim 5, wherein the hardware is IC or FPGA.

7. The audio-video recorder according to claim 4, wherein the sound processing unit executes sound processing and sound compression by means of hardware and software.

8. The audio-video recorder according to claim 7, wherein the hardware is IC or FPGA.

9. The audio-video recorder according to claim 4, wherein the data encryption unit executes data encryption by means of hardware and software.

10. The audio-video recorder according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium is a conventional storage medium such as HD, flash memory, or CD storage module.