VEHICLE DATA STORAGE SYSTEM, VEHICLE DATA STORAGE APPARATUS, VEHICLE DATA STORAGE SERVER, AND VEHICLE DATA STORAGE METHOD

• US 20110131666A1
• Filed: 07/24/2009
• Published: 06/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Keiichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,825,280 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/30
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

A vehicle data storage system, in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, includes a vehicle data storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored; a country determination portion that determines a country in which a vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle; a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with country data; a data determination portion that determines the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the country determined by the country determination portion, by referring to the selection table storage portion; and a data processing portion that stores, in the vehicle data storage portion, the vehicle data determined by the data determination portion.

Claims

1. A vehicle data storage system in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, characterized by comprising:

a vehicle data storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored;

a country determination portion that determines a country in which a vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle;

a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with country data;

a data determination portion that determines the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the country determined by the country determination portion, by referring to the selection table storage portion; and

a data processing portion that stores, in the vehicle data storage portion, the vehicle data determined by the data determination portion.

2. The vehicle data storage system according to claim 1, further comprising

an abnormality data storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored if an abnormality occurs in the vehicle or the vehicle-mounted device.

3. The vehicle data storage system according to claim 1, further comprising

a readout prohibition portion that prohibits readout of the vehicle data that is not the vehicle data that should be stored in the country, among all the vehicle data stored in the vehicle data storage portion, or erases the vehicle data that is not the vehicle data that should be stored in the country.

4. The vehicle data storage system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein

the vehicle data storage system is provided in the vehicle.

5. A vehicle data storage server that includes the vehicle data storage system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising

a receiving portion that receives the position data of the vehicle and the vehicle data.

6. A vehicle data storage apparatus which is provided in a vehicle, and in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, characterized by comprising:

a vehicle data storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored;

a country determination portion that determines a country in which the vehicle exists, based on a position data of the vehicle;

a transmission portion that transmits, to a server, country data concerning the country determined by the country determination portion;

a receiving portion that receives identification data used to identify the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, wherein the server determines the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion by referring to a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with the country data concerning each country; and

a data processing portion that changes the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the identification data received by the receiving portion.

7. A vehicle data storage server which receives, from a vehicle, vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device, and in which the vehicle data is stored, characterized by comprising:

a receiving portion that receives the vehicle data transmitted to the server from the vehicle; and

a vehicle data storage portion in which the received vehicle data is stored, wherein

the vehicle determines the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on country data concerning a country determined based on position data of the vehicle, by referring to a selection table in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with the country data concerning each country, and transmits the determined vehicle data.

8. A vehicle data storage apparatus which is provided in a vehicle, and in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is transmitted to a server, characterized by comprising:

a country determination portion that determines a country in which the vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle;

a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in a vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with country data;

a data determination portion that determines the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the country determined by the country determination portion, by referring to the selection table storage portion; and

a transmission portion that transmits the vehicle data determined by the data determination portion, to the server that includes the vehicle data storage portion.

9. A vehicle data storage method in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, characterized by comprising:

determining a country in which a vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle;

determining the vehicle data that should be stored, based on the determined country, by referring to a selection table in which the vehicle data that should be stored is stored in association with country data; and

storing the determined vehicle data.