IN-VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM AND IN-VEHICLE MONITORING METHOD

• US 20150281652A1
• Filed: 01/10/2013
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Morimoto, Kazunari
• Granted Patent: US 9,794,524 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0081 On-board diagnosis or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 23/00 Control, warning or like safety means along the route or between vehicles or trains
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0806 the signals being two or more video signals H04N7/0803, H04N7/081 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks

Abstract

An in-vehicle monitoring system including monitoring cameras and emergency call devices, a display unit, and an information control device, and monitoring inside of a vehicle by using images taken by the monitoring cameras, wherein a table, in which IP addresses of the emergency call devices and IP addresses of the monitoring cameras are stored in association with each other in a one-to-one relationship or a one-to-many relationship, is set in the information control device, and upon receiving a call signal from an operated emergency call device, the information control device specifies an IP address of a monitoring camera corresponding to the operated emergency call device from the IP addresses of the monitoring cameras based on the table, selects imaging data from the specified monitoring camera from pieces of imaging data from the monitoring cameras, and transmits it to the display unit.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle monitoring system that comprises:

a plurality of monitoring cameras and a plurality of emergency call devices mounted on a vehicle of a train;

a display unit that displays information transferred within the vehicle; and

an information control device that transmits imaging data from the monitoring cameras to the display unit, and that monitors inside of the vehicle by using images taken by the monitoring cameras, wherein

a table, in which an IP address of a same monitoring camera is stored in association with IP addresses of two or more emergency call devices and an IP address of a same emergency call device is stored in association with IP addresses of two or more monitoring cameras, is set in the information control device, and

upon receiving a call signal from an operated emergency call device, the information control device specifies IP addresses of two or more monitoring cameras corresponding to an IP address of an emergency call device included in the call signal from IP addresses of the monitoring cameras by referring to the table, selects imaging data from monitoring cameras having specified IP addresses from pieces of imaging data from the monitoring cameras, and transmits selected imaging data to the display unit.

3. The in-vehicle monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein

graphic data schematically expressing an installation state of emergency call devices and monitoring cameras in a vehicle is set in the information control device for each vehicle,

upon receiving the call signal, the information control device outputs the graphic data corresponding to a vehicle in which an emergency call device as a source of the call signal is installed to the display unit, and

the display unit displays emergency call devices and monitoring cameras in the vehicle on a basis of the graphic data, and when a monitoring camera displayed on a screen is operated, displays an image taken by the monitoring camera.

4. The in-vehicle monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the information control device attaches a flag indicating not to delete imaging data taken during a certain period before and after a start point when the emergency call device is operated to imaging data from specified monitoring cameras and causes a data recording device mounted on a train to record the imaging data.

2. An in-vehicle monitoring system that comprises:

a plurality of monitoring cameras and a plurality of emergency call devices mounted on a vehicle of a train;

a display unit that displays information transferred within the vehicle; and

an information control device that transmits imaging data from the monitoring cameras to the display unit, and that monitors inside of the vehicle by using images taken by the monitoring cameras, wherein

a first table, in which an IP address of one emergency call device is stored in association with two or more multicast addresses and a multicast address associated with an IP address of one emergency call device is also stored in association with another emergency call device, is set in the information control device,

a second table, in which multicast addresses in the first table are stored in association with IP addresses of the monitoring cameras, respectively, is set in the monitoring camera,

the monitoring camera transmits imaging data to a multicast address corresponding to an IP address in the second table, and

upon receiving a call signal from an operated emergency call device, the information control device specifies two or more multicast addresses corresponding to an IP address of an emergency call device as a source of the call signal from a plurality of multicast addresses by referring to the first table and transmits imaging data in a multicast packet transmitted from specified multicast addresses to the display unit.

5. The in-vehicle monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein the information control device attaches a flag indicating not to delete imaging data taken during a certain period before and after a start point when the emergency call device is operated to the imaging data in a multicast packet transmitted from specified multicast addresses and causes a data recording device mounted on a train to record the imaging data.

8. The in-vehicle monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein

graphic data schematically expressing an installation state of emergency call devices and monitoring cameras in a vehicle is set in the information control device for each vehicle,

upon receiving the call signal, the information control device outputs the graphic data corresponding to a vehicle in which an emergency call device as a source of the call signal is installed to the display unit, and

the display unit displays emergency call devices and monitoring cameras in the vehicle on a basis of the graphic data, and when a monitoring camera displayed on a screen is operated, displays an image taken by the monitoring camera.

6. An in-vehicle monitoring method executed in an in-vehicle monitoring system that comprises a plurality of monitoring cameras and a plurality of emergency call devices mounted on a vehicle of a train and a display unit that displays information transferred within the vehicle, and that monitors inside of the vehicle by using images taken by the monitoring cameras, the method comprising:

specifying, upon receiving a call signal from an operated emergency call device, IP addresses of two or more monitoring cameras corresponding to an IP address of an emergency call device included in the call signal from IP addresses of the monitoring cameras by referring to a table in which an IP address of a same monitoring camera is stored in association with IP addresses of two or more emergency call devices and an IP address of a same emergency call device is stored in association with IP addresses of two or more monitoring cameras;

selecting, from pieces of imaging data from the monitoring cameras, imaging data transmitted from monitoring cameras having IP addresses specified at the specifying; and

transmitting imaging data selected at the selecting to the display unit.

7. An in-vehicle monitoring method executed in an in-vehicle monitoring system that comprises a plurality of monitoring cameras and a plurality of emergency call devices mounted on a vehicle of a train and a display unit that displays information transferred within the vehicle, and that monitors inside of the vehicle by using images taken by the monitoring cameras, the method comprising:

transmitting imaging data to a multicast address corresponding to an IP address in a table, in which IP addresses of the monitoring cameras and multicast addresses are stored in association with each other, on a basis of the table;

specifying, upon receiving a call signal from an operated emergency call device, a multicast address corresponding to an IP address of an emergency call device as a source of the call signal from a plurality of multicast addresses on a basis of a table in which an IP address of one emergency call device is stored in association with two or more multicast addresses and a multicast address associated with an IP address of one emergency call device is stored in association with another emergency call device; and

transmitting imaging data in a multicast packet transmitted from a multicast address-specified at the specifying to the display unit.