Vehicular telematic systems and methods for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces

• US 10,706,605 B1
• Filed: 11/30/2018
• Issued: 07/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BlueOwl, LLC (State Farm)
• Original Assignee: BlueOwl, LLC (State Farm)
• Inventors: Russo, Micah Wind, Leung, Theobolt N., Finucane, Gareth, Sanchez, Kenneth Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, King Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peren, Vincent
• Application Number:
  US16/205,587
• Time in Patent Office: 585 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/141 Activation of instrument input devices by approaching fingers or pens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/143 Touch sensitive instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/20 Optical features of instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3848 Data obtained from both position sensors and additional sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

Telematics systems and methods are described for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs). A telematics cloud platform is configured to receive vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle. A GUI value compression component determines, based on the vehicular telematics data, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values. A geospatial animation app receives the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values. The geospatial animation app implements an interactive animated GUI that renders a plurality of geospatial graphics or graphical routes on a geographic area map via a display device. The geospatial graphics or graphical routes are rendered to have different visual forms based on differences between respective GUI position values and corresponding GUI time values.

Claims

1. A vehicular telematics system for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs) operable to provide scrubbed playback rendering of geospatial graphics, the vehicular telematics system comprising:

a telematics cloud platform configured to receive vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle, each of the vehicular telematics data including a geographic position of the telematics device and a time value of the geographic position, the vehicular telematics data defining a vehicular trip of a vehicle, the vehicular telematics data defining a telematics dataset having a first data size;

a GUI value compression component implemented at the telematics cloud platform, the GUI value compression component configured to determine, based on the geographic positions and the time values of the vehicular telematics data, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values, the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values defining a GUI value dataset having a second data size, the second data size having a reduced size compared to the first data size, wherein the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values include at least (1) a first GUI position value and a first GUI time value, and (2) a second GUI position value and a second GUI time value; and

a geospatial animation application (app) configured to implement an interactive animated GUI on a display device, the interactive animated GUI configured to;

receive the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values,

render a plurality of geospatial graphics on a geographic area map via the display device, each geospatial graphic corresponding to a GUI position value of the plurality of GUI position values, and each geospatial graphic rendered at a GUI time value corresponding to the GUI position value,

wherein the interactive animated GUI renders the plurality of geospatial graphics in a chronological order,

wherein a first geospatial graphic is displayed on the geographic area map at the first GUI position value at the first GUI time value, and wherein a second geospatial graphic is displayed on the geographic area map at the second GUI position value at the second GUI time value, the first geospatial graphic rendered to have a first graphical form, and the second geospatial graphic rendered to have a second graphical form, wherein the first graphic form visually differs from the second graphical form based on differences of the first GUI position value or the first GUI position time value compared with the second GUI position value or the second GUI position time value,

wherein the interactive animated GUI rendering the plurality of geospatial graphics in the chronologic order on the geographic area map defines an animated graphical representation of the vehicular trip, and

wherein the interactive animated GUI is operable to provide scrubbed playback rendering of the geospatial graphics via user interaction with the geographic area map.

2. The vehicular telematics system of claim 1, wherein the interactive animated GUI generates the first graphical form and the second graphical form to have a same or similar graphical form where the first GUI position value and the first GUI position time value have similar values compared with the second GUI position value and the second GUI position time value.

3. The vehicular telematics system of claim 1, wherein the interactive animated GUI renders the first graphical form and the second graphical form to have a different graphical form where the first GUI position value and the first GUI position time value have divergent values compared with the second GUI position value and the second GUI position time value.

4. The vehicular telematics system of claim 1, wherein each of the telematics data comprise 15 hertz (Hz) telematics data.

5. The vehicular telematics system of claim 1 further comprising a dataset sequencing component implemented at the telematics cloud platform, the dataset sequencing component configured to determine a sequence of telematics data subsets from the plurality of the vehicular telematics data, each telematics data subset defining a range the plurality of the vehicular telematics data,

wherein a first telematics data subset defines a first range of the plurality of the vehicular telematics data, and wherein a second telematics data subset defines a second range of the plurality of the vehicular telematics data,

wherein the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values are determined based on the sequence of telematics data subsets,

wherein each of the first GUI position value and the first GUI time value is determined from the first telematics data subset, and

wherein each of the second GUI position value and the second GUI time value is determined from the first telematics data subset.

6. The vehicular telematics system of claim 5, wherein at least one of the first GUI position value or the second GUI position value corresponds to a particular geographic position of the vehicular telematics data.

7. The vehicular telematics system of claim 1 further comprising a graphic overlay component configured to annotate the geographic area map with an graphic overlay.

8. The vehicular telematics system of claim 7, wherein the telematics cloud platform is further configured to receive environment data associated with the vehicular trip, the environment data including an environment position and an environment time value of the environment position.

9. The vehicular telematics system of claim 8 further comprising an environment data correlation component configured to correlate the environment data with a particular geospatial graphic of the plurality of geospatial graphics, the environment position and the environment time value of the environment position of the environment data corresponding to the GUI position value and the GUI time value of the particular geospatial graphic.

10. The vehicular telematics system of claim 9, wherein the environment data is displayed via the graphic overlay when a user taps or hovers over the particular geospatial graphic.

11. The vehicular telematics system of claim 9, wherein the environment data is displayed via the graphic overlay when the interactive animated GUI renders the particular geospatial graphic.

12. The vehicular telematics system of claim 8, wherein the environment data is received from one or more remote platforms.

13. The vehicular telematics system of claim 7 further comprising a vehicle status analytics component implemented at the telematics cloud platform, the vehicle status analytics component configured to determine vehicle status data based on the vehicular telematics data,

wherein the vehicle status data is associated with a particular GUI position value, and

wherein the geospatial animation app is configured to receive the vehicle status data, the geospatial animation app further configured to associated the vehicle status data with a particular geospatial graphic, the particular geospatial graphic corresponding to the particular GUI position value.

14. The vehicular telematics system of claim 13, wherein the vehicle status data is displayed via the graphic overlay when a user taps or hovers over the particular geospatial graphic.

15. The vehicular telematics system of claim 14, wherein the vehicle status data is displayed via the graphic overlay when the interactive animated GUI renders the particular geospatial graphic.

16. The vehicular telematics system of claim 1, wherein scrubbed playback rendering of the geospatial graphics is initiated by a user selecting a GUI map position value from the geographic area map, and

wherein the interactive animated GUI performs playback rendering of the geospatial graphics in the chronological order starting from a playback geospatial graphic of the plurality of geospatial graphics, the playback geospatial graphic having a playback GUI position value selected from the plurality of GUI position values, the playback GUI position value corresponding to the GUI map position value.

17. The vehicular telematics system of claim 1, wherein the interactive animated GUI is configured to render a time bar corresponding to the plurality of corresponding GUI time values, the time bar operable to scrub playback of the geospatial graphics on the geographic area map.

18. The vehicular telematics system of claim 17, wherein scrubbed playback rendering of the geospatial graphics via interaction with the geographic area map causes the time bar to be updated to represent a current GUI time selected from the plurality of corresponding GUI time values.

19. A vehicular telematics method of generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs) operable to provide scrubbed playback rendering of geospatial graphics, the vehicular telematics method comprising:

receiving, at a telematics cloud platform, vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle, each of the vehicular telematics data including a geographic position of the telematics device and a time value of the geographic position, the vehicular telematics data defining a vehicular trip of a vehicle, the vehicular telematics data defining a telematics dataset having a first data size;

determining, via a GUI value compression component implemented at the telematics cloud platform, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values based on the geographic positions and the time values of the vehicular telematics data, the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values defining a GUI value dataset having a second data size, the second data size having a reduced size compared to the first data size, wherein the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values include at least (1) a first GUI position value and a first GUI time value, and (2) a second GUI position value and a second GUI time value;

receiving, via a geospatial animation application (app) implementing an interactive animated GUI on a display device, the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values; and

rendering, via the geospatial animation app implementing the interactive animated GUI, a plurality of geospatial graphics on a geographic area map via the display device, each geospatial graphic corresponding to a GUI position value of the plurality of GUI position values, and each geospatial graphic rendered at a GUI time value corresponding to the GUI position value,

wherein the interactive animated GUI renders the plurality of geospatial graphics in a chronological order,

wherein a first geospatial graphic is displayed on the geographic area map at the first GUI position value at the first GUI time value, and wherein a second geospatial graphic is displayed on the geographic area map at the second GUI position value at the second GUI time value, the first geospatial graphic rendered to have a first graphical form, and the second geospatial graphic rendered to have a second graphical form, wherein the first graphic form visually differs from the second graphical form based on differences of the first GUI position value or the first GUI position time value compared with the second GUI position value or the second GUI position time value,

wherein the interactive animated GUI rendering the plurality of geospatial graphics in the chronologic order on the geographic area map defines an animated graphical representation of the vehicular trip, and

wherein the interactive animated GUI is operable to provide scrubbed playback rendering of the geospatial graphics via user interaction with the geographic area map.

20. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs) operable to provide scrubbed playback rendering of geospatial graphics, that when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, the computing device including one or more memories, cause the computing device to:

receive, at a telematics cloud platform, vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle, each of the vehicular telematics data including a geographic position of the telematics device and a time value of the geographic position, the vehicular telematics data defining a vehicular trip of a vehicle, the vehicular telematics data defining a telematics dataset having a first data size;

determine, via a GUI value compression component implemented at the telematics cloud platform, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values based on the geographic positions and the time values of the vehicular telematics data, the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values defining a GUI value dataset having a second data size, the second data size having a reduced size compared to the first data size, wherein the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values include at least (1) a first GUI position value and a first GUI time value, and (2) a second GUI position value and a second GUI time value;

receive, via a geospatial animation application (app) implementing an interactive animated GUI on a display device, the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values; and

render, via the geospatial animation app implementing the interactive animated GUI, a plurality of geospatial graphics on a geographic area map via the display device, each geospatial graphic corresponding to a GUI position value of the plurality of GUI position values, and each geospatial graphic rendered at a GUI time value corresponding to the GUI position value,

wherein the interactive animated GUI renders the plurality of geospatial graphics in a chronological order,

wherein a first geospatial graphic is displayed on the geographic area map at the first GUI position value at the first GUI time value, and wherein a second geospatial graphic is displayed on the geographic area map at the second GUI position value at the second GUI time value, the first geospatial graphic rendered to have a first graphical form, and the second geospatial graphic rendered to have a second graphical form, wherein the first graphic form visually differs from the second graphical form based on differences of the first GUI position value or the first GUI position time value compared with the second GUI position value or the second GUI position time value,

wherein the interactive animated GUI rendering the plurality of geospatial graphics in the chronologic order on the geographic area map defines an animated graphical representation of the vehicular trip, and

wherein the interactive animated GUI is operable to provide scrubbed playback rendering of the geospatial graphics via user interaction with the geographic area map.