Driving safety controlling system and driving safety controlling method using same

• US 9,649,934 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2015
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chen, Wei-An
• Primary Examiner(s): PENDLETON, DIONNE
• Application Number:
  US14/716,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20160189449A1
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 28/06 responsive to incapacity of driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/252 Fingerprint recognition
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2040/0872 Driver physiology
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/143 Alarm means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/043 Identity of occupants
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/221 Physiology, e.g. weight, heartbeat, health or special needs
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/12 Limiting control by the driver depending on vehicle state, e.g. interlocking means for the control input for preventing unsafe operation
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/30 not involving the use of a pass
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition

Abstract

A driving safety controlling method is provided. The controlling method is running on a wearable device, a smart key and a vehicle. The control controlling method comprises steps: obtaining sensing data stored in a first storage unit of the wearable device; obtaining a unique identifier stored in a second storage unit of the smart key and controlling a first wireless communication unit of the smart key to transmit a high-frequency signal containing the unique identifier and the sensing data to the vehicle; obtaining a predefined identifier and a range from a third storage unit of the vehicle, comparing the unique identifier with the predefined identifier, and comparing the sensing data with the range; and controlling a prompt unit to generate a prompting when the unique identifier is determined to match with the predefined identifier and the sensing data is within the range.

Claims

1. A driving safety controlling system, running on a wearable device, a smart key and a vehicle, the driving safety controlling system comprising:

a plurality of processors; and

a plurality of non-transitory computer readable mediums, coupled to the plurality of processors and configured to store instructions for execution by the plurality of processors, the instructions causing the plurality of processors to;

obtain sensing data from the wearable device, wherein the sensing data is generated by the wearable device via sensing a user'"'"'s physiological status;

submit the sensing data to the smart key;

obtain a unique identifier from the smart key and control the smart key to transmit a high-frequency signal containing the unique identifier and the sensing data to the vehicle;

obtain the unique identifier and the sensing data from the high-frequency signal;

obtain a predefined identifier and a range from the vehicle;

compare the unique identifier with the predefined identifier;

compare the sensing data with the range; and

control the vehicle to generate a prompting when the unique identifier is determined to match the predefined identifier and the sensing data is within the range.

2. The driving safety controlling system of claim 1, wherein the instructions causes the plurality of processors to prevent the vehicle from processing any sensing data when the unique identifier is not determined to match the predefined identifier.

3. The driving safety controlling system of claim 1, wherein the instructions causes the plurality of processors to prevent the vehicle from generating the prompting when the unique identifier is determined to match the predefined identifier but the sensing data is not within the range.

4. The driving safety controlling system of claim 1, wherein the prompting can be selected from a group consisting of alarm prompting, voice prompting and light prompting.

5. The driving safety controlling system of claim 1, wherein the instructions causes the plurality of processors to match the wearable device with the smart key.

6. A driving safety controlling method, running on a wearable device, a smart key and a vehicle, the driving safety controlling method comprising:

obtaining sensing data from the wearable device, wherein the sensing data is generated by the wearable device via sensing a user'"'"'s physiological status;

submitting the sensing data to the smart key;

obtaining a unique identifier from the smart key;

controlling the smart key to transmit a high-frequency signal containing the unique identifier and the sensing data to the vehicle;

obtaining the unique identifier and the sensing data from the high-frequency signal, obtaining a predefined identifier and a range from the vehicle;

comparing the unique identifier with the predefined identifier;

comparing the sensing data with the range; and

controlling the vehicle to generate a prompting when the unique identifier is determined to match with the predefined identifier and the sensing data is within the range.

7. The driving safety controlling method of claim 6, wherein the driving safety controlling method further comprises:

preventing the vehicle from processing any sensing data when the unique identifier is not determined to match the predefined identifier.

8. The driving safety controlling method of claim 6, wherein the driving safety controlling method further comprises:

preventing the vehicle from generating the prompting when the unique identifier is determined to matched the predefined identifier but the sensing data is not within the range.

9. The driving safety controlling method of claim 6, wherein the prompting can be selected from a group consisting of alarm prompting, voice prompting and light prompting.

10. The driving safety controlling method of claim 6, wherein the driving safety controlling method further comprises:

matching the wearable device with the smart key.