Systems and methods for vehicle monitoring

• US 9,000,903 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2012
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC), Nitto Denko Corporation
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Bowers, Jeffrey A., Deane, Geoffrey F., Hyde, Roderick A., Kundtz, Nathan, Myhrvold, Nathan P., Smith, David R., Tegreene, Clarence T., Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hung T
• Application Number:
  US13/544,799
• Publication Number:
  US 20140009275A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: 340/436, 340/435, 340/438, 340/902, 340/903, 701/4, 701/29, 701/35, 701/301, 701/300, 705/4, 705/34, 705/39, 711/154
• US Class Current: 340/436
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/00 Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor for lighting vehicle interior B60Q3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• 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: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking

Abstract

A monitoring service is configured to receive monitoring data from one or more collision detection systems. The monitoring data may comprise collision detection information, such as a collision detection model, sensor data, data pertaining to potential collisions, data pertaining to collisions, vehicle identifier(s), and so on. The monitoring service may extract and/or derive indexing criteria from the monitoring data, and may store and/or index the monitoring data on a persistent storage. An entity may request monitoring data pertaining to a specified time, location, and/or vehicle. The monitoring service may respond to the request by identifying monitoring data that conforms with the request, and providing the identified monitoring data to the requesting entity. The monitoring service may issue collision notifications to emergency service entities and/or may provide collision alerts to vehicles in the vicinity of a collision.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an intake module configured to receive monitoring data from collision detection systems of respective land vehicles and to store the received monitoring data on a persistent store, wherein the intake module is configured to receive monitoring data from a first land vehicle, the monitoring data comprising an identifier of a second land vehicle captured by use of a sensing system of the first land vehicle, and wherein the intake module derives indexing criteria from the monitoring data received from the first land vehicle, the indexing criteria comprising the identifier of the second land vehicle; and

a query module configured to respond to a request to access the stored monitoring data.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a notification module configured to transmit a collision alert in response to determining that the received monitoring data indicates that a collision has occurred and/or is predicted to occur.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the notification module is configured to transmit the collision alert to one or more of a land vehicle, pedestrian, and a mobile communication device.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the collision alert comprises a location of the collision.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the collision alert comprises a time of the collision.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the collision alert comprises an identifier of an object involved in the collision.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein the notification module is configured to identify a vehicle within a proximity threshold of the collision, and to transmit the collision alert to the identified vehicle.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the request specifies a location, and wherein the query module is configured to identify stored monitoring data pertaining to the specified location.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the query module is configured to compare the location specified in the request with a location associated with the stored monitoring data.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the request specifies a time, and wherein the query module is configured to identify stored monitoring data pertaining to the specified time.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the query module is configured to compare the time specified in the request with a time associated with the stored monitoring data.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the request comprises a vehicle identifier, and wherein the query module is configured to identify stored monitoring data associated with the vehicle identifier.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the query module is configured to compare the vehicle identifier specified in the request with a vehicle identifier associated with the stored monitoring data.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the intake module is configured to combine monitoring data of two or more different vehicles and to store the combined monitoring data on the persistent storage.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein combining the received monitoring data comprises identifying received monitoring data pertaining to the same location and time.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the intake module is configured to index the received monitoring data.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the intake module is configured to index the received monitoring data based on a time associated with the received monitoring data.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the intake module is configured to index the received monitoring data based on a location associated with the received monitoring data.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the intake module is configured to index the received monitoring data based on a vehicle identifier associated with the received monitoring data.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the intake module is configured to issue a request for monitoring data of a first land vehicle.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the issued request for monitoring data of the first land vehicle specifies a time and location of interest.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the issued request for monitoring data of the first land vehicle comprises an offer that includes one or more of a payment, a bid, and reciprocal monitoring data access.

23. The system of claim 1, wherein the received monitoring data comprises sensor data acquired by use of a sensing system of a first land vehicle, and wherein the intake module is configured to translate the sensor data from a frame of reference of the first land vehicle.

24. The system of claim 1, wherein the intake module is configured to receive the monitoring data from a land vehicle over a network.

25. The system of claim 1, wherein the query module is configured receive the request for access to the stored monitoring data over a network.