Radar warning device with GPS wireless transmission and drive recording function

• US 20110140916A1
• Filed: 12/14/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rayee Technology Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Rayee Technology Ltd.
• Inventors: Kao, Yuei-Yi
• Application Number:
  US12/654,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20110140916A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/902
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

A radar warning device with GPS wireless transmission and drive recording functions is revealed. The radar warning device includes a host processor respectively connected with a Global Position System (GPS) module for receiving signals from GPS satellites and providing reliable positioning of vehicles to drivers, a speed-detection warning unit that detects speed detectors on roads, and a drive recorder that takes images inside and outside the car. Moreover, the drive recorder is disposed with a kinematic sensor that senses gravity value variations and data along X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis so as to determine who is responsible for the car accident. Thereby the radar warning device not only has GPS positioning, radar detection, image capture inside and outside the car and driving condition recording, but also automatically informs related people to deal with events immediately when the radar warning device detects that a car accident occurs or the car is stolen.

Claims

1. A radar warning device with GPS wireless transmission and drive recording functions comprising:

a host processor, and

a drive recorder connected with the host processor and having an image processor, an inside-car image capture device, an outside-car image capture device, a memory and a GPRS module respectively;

the image processor connected with the host processor, the inside-car image capture device, the outside-car image capture device and the memory respectively;

the inside-car image capture device and the outside-car image capture device respectively taking images inside the outside a car;

the memory saving the images captured by the inside-car image capture device and the outside-car image capture device;

the GPRS module connected with the host processor and wirelessly connected with base stations so as to contact people related by the base stations.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image processor of the drive recorder is connected with an infrared lighting unit for providing supplemental infrared illumination to the inside-car image capture device so that the inside-car image capture device takes images clearly inside the car even the light is dim and visibility is poor in the car.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image processor of the drive recorder is connected with an audio input device for recording sounds inside the car simultaneously when the inside-car image capture device takes images inside the car.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the audio input device is a microphone.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image processor of the drive recorder is connected with a kinematic sensor that senses gravity value variations and data along X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis for figuring out who is responsible for a car accident and leaving images captured by the inside-car image capture device as well as the outside-car image capture device within a time interval before and after the car accident saved in the memory, not overwritten.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the host processor is connected with a Global Position System (GPS) module and a speed-detection warning unit respectively;

the GPS module is for receiving signals from GPS satellites and providing vehicle positioning while the speed-detection warning unit includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver connected with the host processor;

the RF receiver receives signals from a RF transmitter of an outside unit of the car and the RF transmitter of the outside unit is connected with a radar detector that detects speed detectors on roads.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the speed-detection warning unit is disposed with a memory that is connected with the host processor correspondingly and is used for storage of coordinate data.

8. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the speed-detection warning unit is arranged with a driving integrated circuit (IC) that is connected with the host processor correspondingly and is used for driving a display to show various data;

the driving IC is also connected with at least one button for switching displaying mode of the display.

9. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the speed-detection warning unit is disposed with an audio IC that is connected with the host processor correspondingly and the audio IC is further connected with a speaker through an amplified so as to broadcast various warning signals by the speaker.