RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20180268626A1
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Published: 09/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: ARASHIMA, KENJI, OKADA, HIROSHI, KOBAYASHI, YUKIHIRO
• Granted Patent: US 10,825,271 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0858 wherein the data carrier is removable
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

[Object] To provide a recording device capable of acquiring information on behavior of a moving body with high accuracy by using a simple configuration. [Solution] Provided is the recording device including: a sensing unit configured to output data obtained through sensing; a reception unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in a moving body; a recording control unit configured to control start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, in response to the wireless signal received by the reception unit from the signal transmission device; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data recorded under the control of the recoding control unit, to an external device.

Claims

1. A recording device comprising:

a sensing unit configured to output data obtained through sensing;

a reception unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in a moving body;

a recording control unit configured to control start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, in response to the wireless signal received by the reception unit from the signal transmission device; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the data recorded under the control of the recoding control unit, to an external device.

2. The recording device according to claim 1, wherein

the sensing unit includes at least an acceleration sensor, and

the recording device is placed in the moving body, and the sensing unit outputs data corresponding to behavior of the moving body.

3. The recording device according to claim 1,

wherein the recording control unit starts recording of the data when a condition that identification information recorded in the recording device is identical to identification information included in the wireless signal is satisfied.

4. The recording device according to claim 1,

wherein the recording control unit starts recording of the data when the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit satisfies a predetermined condition.

5. The recording device according to claim 4,

wherein the recording control unit starts recording of the data when a condition that a still state is detected from the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit is satisfied.

6. The recording device according to claim 4,

wherein the recording control unit stops recording of the data when a condition that operation performed by a user on the recording device is detected from the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit is satisfied.

7. The recording device according to claim 4,

wherein the recording control unit starts recording of the data when a condition that a predetermined change in barometric pressure is detected from the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit is satisfied.

8. The recording device according to claim 4,

wherein the recording control unit starts recording of the data when a condition that movement from a predetermined position is detected from the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit is satisfied.

9. The recording device according to claim 1, further comprising

a determination unit configured to determine whether the recording device is in a still state in the moving body by using the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit.

10. The recording device according to claim 9,

wherein, in the case where it is determined that the recording device is not in the still state in the moving body, the determination unit determines a state in the moving body in the recording device from difference between data obtained through sensing performed by the moving body and data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit.

11. The recording device according to claim 1,

wherein the recording control unit controls start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, on the basis of a state of the recording device determined on the basis of the wireless signal from the signal transmission device and the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit.

12. The recording device according to claim 1, further comprising

an event detection unit configured to detect whether a predetermined event has occurred, through sensing performed by the sensing unit.

13. The recording device according to claim 12,

wherein the event detection unit detects whether the moving body has hit an object, through sensing performed by the sensing unit.

14. The recording device according to claim 12, comprising

a display control unit configured to display a screen corresponding to an event detected by the event detection unit.

15. The recording device according to claim 1, comprising

a display control unit configured to display a screen through which information on a traveling distance of the moving body is input, at a predetermined timing.

16. The recording device according to claim 1, comprising

a display control unit configured to display information on traveling of the moving body, on the basis of the data obtained through sensing performed by the sensing unit in a predetermined time period.

17. The recording device according to claim 16,

wherein the display control unit displays information on driving of the moving body that has been generated by the external device on the basis of data transmitted from the transmission unit to the external device and that has been transmitted from the external device.

18. The recording device according to claim 1, comprising

a display control unit configured to display information on a facility around the moving body on the basis of sensing performed by the sensing unit.

19. A recording method comprising:

performing sensing;

recording data on behavior of a moving body obtained through the sensing;

transmitting the recorded data to an external device; and

controlling start and stop of recording of the data obtained through the sensing, in response to a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in the moving body.

20. A computer program causing a computer to execute:

performing sensing;

recording data on behavior of a moving body obtained through the sensing;

transmitting the recorded data to an external device; and

controlling start and stop of recording of the data obtained through the sensing, in response to a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in the moving body.