Navigation system and method for controlling vehicle navigation

• US 9,163,947 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2011
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Heungwon, Woo, Seungwan, Lee, Wonkeun, Lee, Haeil
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, John Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): KERRIGAN, MICHAEL V
• Application Number:
  US13/519,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20130218460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,743 Days
• Field of Search: 701/213, 701/200, 701/201, 348/148
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 41/00 Fittings for identifying vehicles in case of collision; Fittings for marking or recording collision areas
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09626 where the origin of the information is within the own vehicle, e.g. a local storage device, digital map

Abstract

The present invention relates to a navigation system and to a method for controlling vehicle navigation. The vehicle navigation includes a storage that saves map data, a communication part that receives, from a vehicle black box installed in the vehicle, visual data captured by the black box, and a control part that acquires location data from the map data and saves the data after mapping the captured visual data with the location data.

Claims

1. A vehicle navigation system apparatus for a vehicle comprising:

a box in the vehicle including;

a camera for capturing image data;

an information location module for providing current location data, wherein the image data is obtained for a predetermined time or has a predetermined size, and wherein the image data includes a plurality of video frames, including intra(I) frames, predicted(P) frames, and bidirectional(B) frames;

a first controller configured to associate image data with current location data; and

a first communication unit configured to transmit image data with associated current location data, and

a navigation apparatus in the vehicle including;

a storage configured to store map data;

a second communication unit configured to receive, from the first communication unit, image data captured by the box having associated current location data; and

a second controller configured to obtain place data from the map data in the storage using the associated current location data, map the received image data with the place data from the storage and store the mapped image data,

wherein the second controller is configured to map the place data to the intra video frames of the image data.

2. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, wherein the place data includes at least one of address data, road data and POI (point of interest) data.

3. The vehicle navigation system of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to store the mapped image data in the storage as a separate file,

wherein the place data in the mapped image includes time data and is synchronized with the received image data with associated current location data using the time data.

4. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, wherein, when the place data obtained using the associated current location data is different from previous place data obtained using previous location data of the vehicle, the second controller is configured to map the received image data with the place data using the associated current location data of the received image data.

5. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to map the place data with the received image data at a predetermined interval.

6. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, the navigation apparatus further including:

an input unit,

wherein the second controller is further configured to search the storage for a video frame mapped with place data input through the input unit.

7. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, wherein the second controller is further configured to classify the received image data on the basis of the place data and store the classified image data.

8. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, the navigation apparatus further including;

a sensor for detecting an operation of a user,

wherein the second controller is further configured to classify the received image data on the basis of at least one predetermined image data type and store the classified image data,

wherein the at least one image data type includes at least one of image data obtained according to a signal of the sensor installed in the vehicle and image data obtained according to an operation of a user.

9. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, the navigation apparatus further including:

an input unit; and

a display,

wherein the second controller is further configured to display a part of all images corresponding to the received image data, which correspond to a predetermined time determined on the basis of information on a location, input through the input unit, through the display.

10. The vehicle navigation system of claim 1, wherein the location data is obtained using a GNSS signal received from an artificial satellite.

11. A method for controlling a vehicle navigation system, comprising:

obtaining current location data of a vehicle with an information location module in a box installed in a vehicle;

capturing image data with a camera in the box, wherein the image data includes a plurality of video frames including intra(I) frames, predicted(P) frames, and bidirectional(B) frames;

associating the image data with the current location data;

transmitting image data having associated current location data from the box;

receiving the image data having associated current location data from the box into a navigation apparatus;

acquiring place data from map data stored in the navigation apparatus using the associated current location data; and

mapping the place data acquired from map data stored in the navigation apparatus into the intra video frames of the image data;

storing the mapped image data;

the storing of the mapped data comprises mapping the place data to the intra video frames;

inputting place data into an input unit; and

searching for intra video frames mapped with the input place data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the place data includes at least one of address data, road data and POI (point of interest) data.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the storing of the mapped data comprises storing the place data mapped with the received image data as a separate file,

wherein the place data includes time data and is synchronized with the received image data using the time data.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying some of all images corresponding to the image data, which correspond to a predetermined time determined on the basis of information on a location, input through the input unit.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for executing the method of claim 11.