Vehicle data storage system, vehicle data storage apparatus, vehicle data storage server, and vehicle data storage method

• US 8,825,280 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2009
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Keiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): PAIGE, TYLER D
• Application Number:
  US13/055,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20110131666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• Field of Search: 701/33.4
• US Class Current: 701/33.4
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

A vehicle data storage system, in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, includes a vehicle data storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored; a country determination portion that determines a country in which a vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle; a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with country data; a data determination portion that determines the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the country determined by the country determination portion, by referring to the selection table storage portion; and a data processing portion that stores, in the vehicle data storage portion, the vehicle data determined by the data determination portion.

Claims

1. A vehicle data storage system in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, comprising:

a vehicle data-storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored;

a country determination portion that determines a country in which a vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle;

a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with country data;

a data determination portion that determines the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the country determined by the country determination portion, by referring to the selection table storage portion, so that the vehicle data is stored according to a law of the country determined by the country determination portion;

a data processing portion that stores, in the vehicle data storage portion, the vehicle data determined by the data determination portion; and

a readout prohibition portion that, when the vehicle has moved from a first country in which first vehicle data that is the vehicle data stored in the vehicle data storage portion is legally permitted to be stored, to a second country in which the first vehicle data is not legally permitted to be stored, prohibits readout of the first vehicle data in the second country.

2. The vehicle data storage system according to claim 1, further comprising

an abnormality data storage portion in which the vehicle data is stored if an abnormality occurs in the vehicle or the vehicle-mounted device.

3. A vehicle data storage server that includes the vehicle data storage system according to claim 1, further comprising

a receiving portion that receives the position data of the vehicle and the vehicle data.

4. A vehicle data storage system according to claim 1, further comprising a vehicle data storage apparatus which is provided in the vehicle, and in which vehicle data obtained from the vehicle-mounted device is stored, the vehicle data storage apparatus comprising:

the vehicle data storage portion;

the country determination portion;

a transmission portion that transmits, to a server, country data concerning the country determined by the country determination portion;

a receiving portion that receives identification data used to identify the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, wherein the server determines the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion by referring to a selection table storage portion in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with the country data concerning each country; and

a data processing portion that changes the type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on the identification data received by the receiving portion.

5. A vehicle data storage system according to claim 1, further comprising a vehicle data storage server which receives, from the vehicle, vehicle data obtained from the vehicle-mounted device, and in which the vehicle data is stored, the vehicle data storage server comprising:

a receiving portion that receives the vehicle data transmitted to the server from the vehicle; and

the vehicle data storage portion, wherein

the vehicle determines the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion, based on country data concerning a country determined based on position data of the vehicle, by referring to a selection table in which a type of the vehicle data that should be stored in the vehicle data storage portion is stored in association with the country data concerning each country, and transmits the determined vehicle data.

6. A vehicle data storage system according to claim 1, further comprising a vehicle data storage apparatus which is provided in the vehicle, and in which vehicle data obtained from the vehicle-mounted device is transmitted to a server, the vehicle data storage apparatus comprising:

the country determination portion;

the selection table storage portion;

the data determination portion; and

a transmission portion that transmits the vehicle data determined by the data determination portion, to the server that includes the vehicle data storage portion.

7. A vehicle data storage method in which vehicle data obtained from a vehicle-mounted device is stored, comprising:

determining a country in which a vehicle exists, based on position data of the vehicle;

determining the vehicle data that should be stored, based on the determined country, by referring to a selection table in which the vehicle data that should be stored is stored in association with country data, so that the vehicle data is stored according to a law of the determined country;

storing the determined vehicle data; and

when the vehicle has moved from a first country in which first vehicle data that is the vehicle data stored in the vehicle data storage portion is legally permitted to be stored, to a second country in which the first vehicle data is not legally permitted to be stored, prohibiting the readout of the first vehicle data in the second country.