Vehicle event recorders with integrated web server

• US 10,404,951 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2018
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc. (Solera Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: SmartDrive Systems, Inc. (Solera Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Plante, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeanglaude, Gertrude Arthur
• Application Number:
  US15/881,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20180152676A1
• Time in Patent Office: 585 Days
• Field of Search: 701 35
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

Vehicle event recorders are arranged with integrated web servers to provide a simple user interface and control mechanism which may be address with commonly available hardware and software. A vehicle event recorder of these inventions couples to a network having a workstation node. The workstation having either of the many available web browsers can be used to view, address, control, perform data transfer, et cetera, by way of data exchange in accordance with simple IP protocols. A vehicle equipped with these systems returns to a household to make a network connection, A local server is used to see all exposed system controls as provided by predefined web pages provided by a web server integrated as part of the vehicle event recorder unit.

Claims

1. A system configured to detect vehicle events and adjust one or more sensitivity levels for vehicle event detection, wherein the system is further configured to couple with a vehicle, the system comprising:

one or more sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to one or both of a vehicle environment and operation of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle environment of the vehicle includes one or both of spaces in and around an interior of the vehicle and spaces exterior of the vehicle;

one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

detect a vehicle event based on the generated output signals, wherein detection uses an adjustable sensitivity level;

responsive to detection of the vehicle event, effectuate storage of information associated with the vehicle event in electronic memory;

facilitate communication of the information to a remotely located computing device; and

adjust the adjustable sensitivity level based on adjustment information received from the remotely located computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication of the information to the remotely located computing device includes Internet Protocol (IP)-based communication.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors include a video camera, and wherein the generated output signals include visual information of the vehicle environment.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to cause communication of the visual information to the remotely located computing device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the remotely located computing device:

determines an adjustment to the adjustable sensitivity level, wherein the adjustment is based on one or more previously detected vehicle events; and

communicates the adjustment information to the system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the adjustment information is received from a user via the remotely located computing device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions such that facilitating communication includes generating one or more web pages for presentation to the user via a web browser on the remotely located computing device, and wherein the one or more web pages are configured to receive entry and/or selection of the adjustment information from the user.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions such that the one or more web pages comprise one or more fields configured to receive entry and/or selection of the adjustment information from the user.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions such that the adjustable sensitivity level is adjusted by an increase and/or decrease in an event trigger threshold level, and wherein detection of the vehicle event is based on a comparison using the event trigger threshold level.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an output port configured to facilitate the communication between the system and the remotely located computing device.

11. A computer implemented method for detecting vehicle events of a vehicle and adjusting one or more sensitivity levels for vehicle event detection, the method comprising:

generating, by one or more sensors, output signals conveying information related to one or both of a vehicle environment and operation of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle environment of the vehicle includes one or both of spaces in and around an interior of the vehicle and spaces exterior of the vehicle;

detecting a vehicle event based on the generated output signals, wherein detection uses an adjustable sensitivity level;

responsive to detecting the vehicle event, effectuate, storage of information associated with the vehicle event in the electronic memory;

facilitating communication of the information to a remotely located computing device; and

adjusting the adjustable sensitivity level based on adjustment information received from the remotely located computing device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the communication of the information to the remotely located computing device includes Internet Protocol (IP)-based communication.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more sensors include a video camera, and wherein the generated output signals include visual information of the vehicle environment.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising causing communication of the visual information associated to the remotely located computing device.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining an adjustment to the adjustable sensitivity level, wherein the adjustment is based on one or more previously detected vehicle events.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the adjustment information is received from a user via the remotely located computing device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein facilitating communication includes generating one or more web pages for presentation to the user via a web browser on the remotely located computing device, wherein the one or more web pages receive entry and/or selection of the adjustment information from the user.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the one or more web pages comprise one or more fields that receive entry and/or selection of the adjustment information from the user.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein adjusting the adjustable sensitivity level is accomplished by an increase and/or decrease in an event trigger threshold level, and wherein detecting the vehicle event is based on a comparison using the event trigger threshold level.