System, method and apparatus for automatic generation of remedial training

• US 8,506,302 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2011
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Instructional Technologies, Inc. (John F. Stafford Insurance Agency, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Instructional Technologies, Inc. (John F. Stafford Insurance Agency, Inc.)
• Inventors: Voorhees, James W., Stahlman, Nathan P., Purvis, Aaron M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu, Kang
• Application Number:
  US13/153,698
• Publication Number:
  US 20120308964A1
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 434/29, 434/350, 434/336, 434/362, 434/322, 434/323
• US Class Current: 434/62
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/167 Control of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

A system automatically generates a remedial training lesson from a plurality of frames located within the storage. Each frame has a component of training. After an incident occurs (e.g. accident, violation, citation, etc.), details of the incident are saved. The incident is associated with a person (e.g. the driver, pilot, etc. that had the incident). Software runs on a computer system and selects at least one remedial frame from the plurality of frames based upon data within the details of the incident and creates a remedial lesson. The remedial lesson, which includes the selected frame(s) from the plurality of frames, is provided to the person.

Claims

1. A remedial lesson generator comprising:

a computer system having access to storage;

a plurality of frames located within the storage, each frame having a component of training;

an incident associated with a person, the incident being a traffic citation for a moving violation or an accident, details of the incident are stored within the storage; and

software running on the computer system, the software selecting at least one remedial frame from the plurality of frames based upon the details of the incident and the software creating a remedial lesson, the remedial lesson includes the at least one remedial frame;

wherein the details of the incident includes at least one of the group consisting of a reported speed of a vehicle being operated by the person, a speed of another vehicle involved in the accident, road conditions at the time/place of the incident, climate conditions at the time/place of the incident, time of the incident, visibility at the time/place of the incident, estimate of extent of damage from the accident, and road surface at location of incident.

2. The remedial lesson generator of claim 1, further comprising a profile database, the profile database containing records for a plurality of operators, each of the records includes operator authorization data, operator training records and operator demographics of each operator.

3. The remedial lesson generator of claim 2, whereas the software further selects at least one additional frame from the plurality of frames for inclusion in the remedial lesson based upon data from a record of the profile database associated with the person.

4. The remedial lesson generator of claim 2, whereas the records of the profile database further include ages of each of the operators and the software further selects at least one additional frame from the plurality of frames for inclusion in the remedial lesson based upon the age of the person from a record of the profile database associated with the person.

5. The remedial lesson generator of claim 1, further comprising software that reads the remedial lesson from the storage area and presents the remedial lesson to a client computer-based device associated with the person.

6. The remedial lesson generator of claim 5, wherein the software records which frames are presented to the client computer-based device associated with the person in a record of a profile database, the record associated with the person.

7. A method of remedial training after an incident, the incident being a traffic citation for a moving violation or an accident, the incident associated with a person, the method comprising:

(a) storing a plurality of frames, the frames accessible by a computer system;

(b) storing a plurality of records in a profile database, the profile database accessible by the computer system, each record containing data related to an operator;

(c) receiving details of the incident and storing the details in a storage of the computer system;

(d) the computer system generating a remedial lesson for the person by assembling a subset of the plurality of frames that are related to the details of the incident into the remedial lesson;

(e) presenting the remedial lesson to the person; and

(f) recording results of the remedial lesson in a record of a profile database associated with the person;

wherein the details of the incident includes at least one of the group consisting of a reported speed of a vehicle being operated by the person, a speed of another vehicle involved in the accident, road conditions at the time/place of the incident, climate conditions at the time/place of the incident, time of the incident, visibility at the time/place of the incident, estimate of extent of damage from the accident, and road surface at location of incident.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of generating a remedial lesson further comprises assembling additional frames into the remedial lesson, the additional frames based upon data related to the person as retrieved from the record of the profile database associated with the person.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of generating a remedial lesson further comprises assembling additional frames into the remedial lesson, the additional frames based upon an age of the person retrieved from the record of the profile database associated with the person.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of generating a remedial lesson further comprises assembling additional frames into the remedial lesson, the additional frames based upon an indication of scheduled training required by the person, the indication of scheduled training retrieved from the record of the profile database associated with the person.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of presenting comprises:

for each frame of the remedial lesson;

(e1) presenting content from the frame to the person;

(e2) quizzing the person to ascertain how much of the content is understood; and

(e3) if the quizzing indicates that the content is not understood, repeating steps e1-e3.

12. A computer-based system for remedial lesson generation, the computer-base system comprising:

a computer;

storage operatively interfaced to the computer;

a plurality of frames located within the storage, each of the frames having a component of training;

an incident, the incident being a traffic citation for a moving violation or an accident, the incident stored within the storage, the incident associated with an operator of a vehicle; and

software running on the computer system, the software selecting at least one frame from the plurality of frames based upon data within the incident and the software creating a remedial lesson for the operator, the remedial lesson includes the at least one frame related to the incident;

wherein the details of the incident includes at least one of the group consisting of a reported speed of a vehicle being operated by the person, a speed of another vehicle involved in the accident, road conditions at the time/place of the incident, climate conditions at the time/place of the incident, time of the incident, visibility at the time/place of the incident, estimate of extent of damage from the accident, and road surface at location of incident.

13. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 12, further comprising a profile database, the profile database includes a plurality of profile records, each of the profile records are associated with vehicle-operators, each profile record of the profile includes authorization data, training records and demographics for the vehicle-operator to which the profile record is associated.

14. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 13, whereas the software further selects at least one additional frame from the plurality of frames for inclusion in the remedial lesson based upon data within one of the profile records that is associated with the operator.

15. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 13, whereas the profile records include ages of the vehicle-operators and the software further selects at least one frame from the plurality of frames for inclusion in the remedial lesson based upon the age of the operator that is retrieved from the profile record associated with the operator of the vehicle.

16. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 13, whereas the profile records include an eye-sight measurement of the vehicle-operators and the software further selects at least one additional frame from the plurality of frames for inclusion in the remedial lesson based upon the eye-sight measurement of the operator that is retrieved from the profile record associated with the operator of the vehicle.

17. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 12, further comprising software that reads the remedial lesson from the storage area and presents the remedial lesson to a client computer-based device associated with the operator of the vehicle.

18. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 13, further comprising software that reads the remedial lesson from the storage area and presents the remedial lesson to a client computer-based device associated with the operator of the vehicle, wherein the software records which frames are presented in the profile record associated with the operator of the vehicle.

19. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 12, wherein the vehicle is selected from the group consisting of a truck, a car, a boat, a train and an airplane.

20. The computer-based system for remedial lesson generation of claim 12, wherein the data of the incident is electronically transferred from an on-board computer of the vehicle to the computer.