Vehicle searching system and method for searching vehicle

• US 10,008,114 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2015
• Issued: 06/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Ali SPA (Bessemer Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Liu, Li-Bing
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US14/962,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20170092128A1
• Time in Patent Office: 931 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/127 to a central station ; Indicators in a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental

Abstract

A vehicle searching system and a method for searching a vehicle are provided. The vehicle searching system includes a vehicle electronic device, a data storage device and a mobile device. The vehicle electronic device captures images along a moving direction of the vehicle, and provides a positioning information of the vehicle and determines whether the vehicle sends a parking stall signal. The data storage device stores data. The mobile device communicates with the data storage device. The vehicle electronic device receives the parking stall signal to select a parking image from the images and obtain positioning information of the vehicle, and transmits the parking image and the positioning information to the data storage device. The mobile device obtains the parking image and the positioning information from the data storage device, and displays the parking image and presents the positioning information in a graphical interface.

Claims

1. A vehicle searching system, comprising:

a vehicle electronic device, capturing a plurality of images along a moving direction of a vehicle, and providing a positioning information of the vehicle and determining whether the vehicle sends a parking stall signal, wherein the vehicle electronic device also comprises

a driving event data record module, configured to capture the plurality of images along the moving direction of the vehicle,

a positioning module, configured to provide the positioning information of the vehicle, and

a vehicle control circuit, configured to send the parking stall signal when the vehicle is stalled;

a data storage device, communicating with the vehicle electronic device, and configured to store data, wherein the driving event data record module selects at least one parking image from the plurality of images for transmitting to the data storage device when receiving the parking stall signal, and the positioning module provides the positioning information of the vehicle to the data storage device when receiving the parking stall signal; and

a mobile device, communicating with the data storage device,

wherein the vehicle electronic device receives the parking stall signal to select the at least one parking image from the plurality of images and obtain the positioning information of the vehicle, and transmits the at least one parking image and the positioning information to the data storage device for storage, and

the mobile device obtains the at least one parking image and the positioning information from the data storage device, and displays the at least one parking image and presents the positioning information in a graphical interface.

2. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data storage device is a key of the vehicle.

3. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicle electronic device further comprises:

a stall delay circuit, coupled to the vehicle control circuit, the driving event data record module and the positioning module, and configured to receive the parking stall signal and transmit the parking stall signal to the driving event data record module and the positioning module, wherein the stall delay circuit maintains a power of the vehicle electronic device when receiving the parking stalling signal,

wherein after the driving event data record module and the positioning module respectively transmit the at least one parking image and the positioning information of the vehicle to the data storage device, the stall delay circuit stops supplying power to the vehicle electronic device.

4. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the driving event data record module is a video event data recorder (VEDR), and the positioning module is a vehicle navigation device, and the driving event data recorder and the vehicle navigation device respectively communicate with the data storage device through an inbuilt communication chip,

or the driving event data record module and the positioning module are integrated into an integral device.

5. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicle electronic device determines whether the images captured within a predetermined period counted backward from a time point for obtaining the vehicle stall signal comprise a number or text, and selects the images having the number or the text to serve as the at least one parking image.

6. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicle electronic device selects a plurality of the parking images from the images captured within a predetermined period counted backward from a time point for obtaining the vehicle stall signal in a random manner.

7. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile device presents the positioning information through a map application.

8. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicle electronic device, the data storage device and the mobile device communicate with each other through a wireless local area network protocol, and the wireless local area network protocol is one of a bluetooth communication protocol and a WiFi protocol.

9. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data storage device comprises:

a communication protocol module, communicating with the vehicle electronic device through a wireless local area network protocol; and

a memory module, coupled to the communication protocol module for storing data.

10. The vehicle searching system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a smart phone, a tablet computer or a notebook.

11. A method for searching a vehicle, comprising:

continuously capturing a plurality of images along a moving direction of the vehicle;

selecting at least one parking image from the plurality of images captured within a predetermined period counted backward from a time point for obtaining a vehicle stall signal in a random manner and obtaining positioning information of the vehicle when the vehicle is stalled, and transmitting the at least one parking image and the positioning information to a data storage device for storage; and

obtaining the at least one parking image and the positioning information from the data storage device by using a mobile device, and displaying the at least one parking image through the mobile device and presenting the positioning information in a graphical interface.

12. The method for searching the vehicle as claimed in claim 11, wherein the step of selecting the at least one parking image from the plurality of images further comprises:

determining whether the images captured within the predetermined period counted backward from the time point for obtaining the vehicle stall signal comprise a number or text; and

selecting the images having the number or the text to serve as the at least one parking image.