Safe-driving support system

• US 9,808,463 B1
• Filed: 11/14/2016
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zaaz, Inc. (WPP PLC)
• Original Assignee: Zaaz, Inc. (WPP PLC)
• Inventors: Kawaguchi, Kentaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cuong H
• Application Number:
  US15/351,287
• Time in Patent Office: 358 Days
• Field of Search: 701 45- 46, 600300, 429515
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/522 having oxo groups directly attached to the heterocyclic ring, e.g. hypoxanthine, guanine, acyclovir
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0016 by the smell sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0077 with application of chemical or pharmacological stimulus
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 21/00 Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3553 remote, e.g. between patient's home and doctor's office
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/505 Touch-screens; Virtual keyboard or keypads; Virtual buttons; Soft keys; Mouse touches
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/26 Psychostimulants, e.g. nicotine, cocaine
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 12/02 for controlling time, or sequence, of delivery
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 17/0646 Vibrating plates, i.e. plates being directly subjected to the vibrations, e.g. having a piezoelectric transducer attached thereto
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 17/0684 Wicks or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 9/01 Spray pistols, discharge devicesB05B9/03 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/30 Map- or contour-matching
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3407 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/45 by combining measurements of signals from the satellite radio beacon positioning system with a supplementary measurement

Abstract

Providing a system that prevents decrease of attentiveness of drowsiness of a driver of a moving vehicle. A safe-driving support system is provided. The safe-driving support system comprises: a spraying device having a shape being able to be steadily placed near a driving seat of a movable body and spraying in the movable body; a mobile information processing device configured to be able to perform proximity communication with the spraying device and being able to obtain current location information via a GPS; and an information providing server providing the information processing device with information via the Internet.

Claims

1. A safe-driving support system, comprising:

a spraying device having a shape being able to be steadily placed near a driving seat of a movable body and spraying in the movable body;

a mobile information processing device configured to be able to perform proximity communication with the spraying device and being able to obtain current location information via a GPS; and

an information providing server providing the information processing device with information via the Internet; and

the spraying device, further comprising;

a liquid container containing water solution containing caffeine;

a spraying operation part spraying water solution containing caffeine contained in the liquid container; and

wherein the spraying device is configured to spray in the movable body by activating the spraying operation part in response to a spraying command from the information processing device that established proximity communication; and

the information providing server, further comprising;

a map information memory part memorizing map information;

attention requiring area memory part memorizing attention requiring area information showing areas requiring careful driving; and

wherein the information providing server is configured to send the map information and the attention requiring area information, respectively, to the information processing device in response to a request from the information processing device; and

wherein the information processing device obtains the map information and the attention requiring area information from the information providing server by requesting to the information providing server, calculates necessary time to the attention requiring area based upon the map information and the attention requiring area information obtained from the information providing service and the current location information, and generates a spraying command to the spraying device if it is judged that the necessary time is shorter than a criterion time; and

wherein the spraying device activates the spraying operation part based upon the spraying command and sprays the water solution containing caffeine in the movable body.

2. The safe-driving support system as defined in claim 1,

further comprising a watch-shaped wearable device being able to perform proximity communication with the information processing device and having a display, and

wherein an image showing spraying is displayed on the display of the wearable device if the information processing device generates the spraying command to the spraying device.

3. The safe-driving support system defined in claim 2,

wherein the proximity communication between the spraying device and the information processing device requires a paring process as an initial setting;

once the paring process is performed, the proximity communication is automatically established when the spraying device and the information processing device are in a communicable range; and

the spraying device sprays immediately after the automatic establishment.

4. The safe-driving support system defined in claim 3,

wherein the information processing device is configured to obtain configuration information including attribute information of a user or his or her company, and the spraying device controls spraying water solution containing caffeine according to the configuration information.

5. The safe-driving support system defined in claim 4,

the information providing server, further comprising:

a route searching part to search the shortest distance route or the shortest time route between a current location relating to current location information and a destination relating to destination information when the current information and the destination information are provided from the information processing device, and to provide the information processing device with route information relating to the shortest distance route or the shortest time route, and

wherein the information providing server provides the information processing device with attention requiring area information on the shortest distance route or the shortest time route,

wherein the information processing device provides a navigation function based upon the map information and the route information obtained from the information providing server and the current location information, and calculates necessary time to the attention requiring area on the shortest distance route or the shortest time route based upon the map information and the route information obtained from the information providing server, the attention requiring area information on the shortest distance route or the shortest time route and the current location information.

6. The safe-driving support system defined in claim 5,

the configuration information, further comprising concentration information of the water solution containing caffeine, and

wherein the denser the concentration of the water solution containing caffeine becomes, the shorter the spraying time of the water solution containing caffeine becomes.

7. The safe-driving support system defined in claim 6,

wherein the information processing device accumulates spraying amount of the water solution containing caffeine every time the information processing device generates the spraying command, and when the total amount of sprayed water solution containing caffeine calculated based upon the accumulation result and the concentration information is greater than a prescribed value according to the configuration information, the information processing device stops spraying the water solution containing caffeine.

8. The safe-driving support system defined in claim 7, wherein the water solution containing caffeine is odorless.