VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20160217332A1
• Filed: 12/03/2015
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2015
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: PARK, Jung Mi, LEE, Jia
• Granted Patent: US 10,289,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/02 related to ambient conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30252 Vehicle exterior; Vicinity of vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A vehicle includes an image capturer configured to acquire a driving image of surrounding environment of the vehicle, and a processor configured to acquire additional information related to the driving image and to store the driving image and the additional information.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

an image capturer configured to acquire a driving image of a surrounding environment of the vehicle; and

a processor configured to acquire additional information related to the driving image and to store the driving image and the additional information.

2. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the image capturer includes at least one of a front camera acquiring a front view image of the vehicle, a rear camera acquiring a rear view image of the vehicle, a side camera acquiring a side view image of the vehicle, and a black box camera for the vehicle.

3. The vehicle of claim 1, further comprising:

a speech recognizer configured to recognize a speech,

wherein the processor controls the acquiring of the driving image according to a result of the speech recognition of the speech recognizer.

4. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the additional information includes at least one of image capturing environment information about the surrounding environment in which the driving image is captured and vehicle state information about a state in which the driving image is captured.

5. The vehicle of claim 4, wherein the image capturing environment information includes at least one of a location in which the driving image is captured and a time in which the driving image is captured.

6. The vehicle of claim 5, wherein the processor performs tagging on the driving image by using the image capturing environment information.

7. The vehicle of claim 4, wherein the vehicle state information includes at least one of a revolutions per minute (RPM) of an engine, a state of a transmission, a vehicle speed, an on/off state of a lamp, a temperature of coolant, fuel information, travel distance information, a tire pressure, and oil state information.

8. The vehicle of claim 1, further comprising:

a speech receiver configured to receive a speech of a user,

wherein the processor stores the speech of the user received through the speech receiver together with the driving image.

9. The vehicle of claim 1, further comprising a display configured to provide a user with the driving image and the additional information.

10. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the processor monitors a sign of abnormalcy in the vehicle, and

wherein when the sign of abnormalcy is detected, the processor captures the driving image of the vehicle.

11. The vehicle of claim 10, wherein the processor transmits the driving image and the additional information to a service server.

12. The vehicle of claim 1, further comprising:

a communicator configured to transmit the driving image and the additional information to an external apparatus.

13. The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the processor edits the driving image according to a characteristic of the external apparatus and transmits the edited image.

14. A vehicle comprising:

an image capturer configured to capture a driving image of the vehicle when a sign of abnormalcy is detected; and

a processor configured to acquire additional information related to the driving image and to store the acquired additional information together with the driving image.

15. A method of controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:

acquiring a driving image of the vehicle;

acquiring additional information related to the driving image; and

storing the driving image and the additional information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of acquiring the driving image comprises at least one of:

acquiring, by using a front camera, a front view image of a surrounding environment of the vehicle;

acquiring, by using a rear camera, a rear view image of the surrounding environment;

acquiring, by using a side camera, a side view image of the surrounding environment; and

acquiring an image of the vehicle on driving by using a black box camera provided in a black box.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

recognizing a speech of a user; and

initiating the step of acquiring the driving image according to a result of the speech recognition.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of acquiring the additional information comprises at least one of:

acquiring image capturing environment information obtained when the driving image is captured; and

acquiring vehicle state information obtained when the driving image is captured.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the step of acquiring the additional information comprises receiving a speech of a user; and

the step of storing the driving image and the additional information comprises storing the received speech of the user together with the driving image.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising displaying the driving image and the additional information.

21. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

monitoring a sign of abnormalcy in the vehicle; and

initiating the step of capturing the driving image when the sign of abnormalcy is detected.

22. The method of claim 15, further comprising transmitting the driving image and the additional information to an external apparatus.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising editing the vehicle image of according to a characteristic of the external apparatus and transmits the edited image.