SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISSEMINATING CAR ACCIDENT

• US 20120146812A1
• Filed: 12/07/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: RUY, Jae Hong
• Application Number:
  US13/313,774
• Publication Number:
  US 20120146812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles

Abstract

Provided is a system and method for disseminating an accident. The accident dissemination system may include a sensor to sense the accident and to generate accident information; and a vehicle processor to open an S channel and thereby transmit the accident information to a vehicle at the rear entering an accident location where the accident has occurred, and to transmit the accident information to an oncoming vehicle, travelling in the opposite direction and being alienated from the accident location, via a first D channel opened by the oncoming vehicle.

Claims

1. A system for disseminating an accident, the system comprising:

a sensor to sense the accident and to generate accident information; and

a vehicle processor to open an S channel and thereby transmit the accident information to a vehicle at the rear entering an accident location where the accident has occurred, and to transmit the accident information to an oncoming vehicle, travelling in the opposite direction and being alienated from the accident location, via a first D channel opened by the oncoming vehicle.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a relay processor to obtain the accident information from the vehicle processor or the oncoming vehicle, and to open a second D channel, thereby retransmitting the accident information to the vehicle at the rear.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the relay processor receives the accident information via the S channel when the accident location is within a predetermined range, or receives the accident information via the first D channel opened by a vehicle processor within the oncoming vehicle when the accident location is outside the predetermined range.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the relay processor transfers the accident information to a control center server to thereby enable an emergency disposal unit to be dispatched to the accident location.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein when the accident information is received, a vehicle processor within the oncoming vehicle retransmits the accident information to the vehicle at the rear or the relay processor.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein each of the S channel, the first D channel, and the second D channel corresponds to a radio frequency channel.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor is attached to a facility or a vehicle positioned at the accident location to sense the accident.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein when a speed of an accident vehicle is less than or equal to a predetermined reference speed, the sensor senses the accident.

9. A method of disseminating an accident, the method comprising:

sensing, at a sensor, the accident to generate accident information; and

opening, at a vehicle processor, an S channel to thereby transmit the accident information to a vehicle at the rear entering an accident location where the accident has occurred, and transmitting the accident information to an oncoming vehicle, travelling in the opposite direction and being alienated from the accident location, via a first D channel opened by the oncoming vehicle.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

obtaining, at a relay processor, the accident information from the vehicle processor or the oncoming vehicle; and

opening, at the relay processor, a second D channel to thereby retransmit the accident information to the vehicle at the rear.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the obtaining comprises receiving the accident information via the S channel when the accident location is within a predetermined range, or receiving the accident information via the first D channel opened by a vehicle processor within the oncoming vehicle when the accident location is outside the predetermined range.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transferring, at the relay processor, the accident information to a control center server to thereby enable an emergency disposal unit to be dispatched to the accident location.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

retransmitting, at a vehicle processor within the oncoming vehicle, the accident information to the vehicle at the rear or the relay processor when the accident information is received.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the sensing and the generating comprises sensing the accident when a speed of an accident vehicle is less than or equal to a predetermined reference speed.