DRIVING CONDITIONS MONITORING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100102988A1
• Filed: 07/30/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHEN, CHIU-HAO
• Application Number:
  US12/512,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20100102988A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 28/066 actuating a signalling device B60K28/063 takes precedence

Abstract

A driving conditions monitoring device includes an image capturing unit, a data processing unit, a control unit, and an abnormality processing unit electronically connected in series. The image capturing unit includes at least two image capturing devices to respectively obtain the image of the expression of the drive and the driving road condition. The data processing unit obtains the image information form the image capturing unit, and then sends it to the control unit after processed. The control unit judges whether the states of the driver is normal or abnormal according to the image information of the expression of the drive and the driving road condition, and activates the abnormality processing unit to deal with the abnormality when the state of the driver is abnormal.

Claims

1. A driving conditions monitoring device, comprising:

an image capturing unit including at least two image capturing devices to respectively obtain the images of the expression of the driver and the driving road conditions,

a data processing unit;

a control unit; and

an abnormality processing unit;

wherein the image capturing unit, the data processing unit, the control unit, and the abnormality processing unit are electronically connected in series, the data processing unit obtains the image information from the image capturing unit, and then sends it to the control unit after processed, the control unit judges whether the states of the driver is normal or abnormal according to the image information of the expression of the drive and the driving road condition, and activates the abnormality processing unit to deal with the abnormality when the state of the driver is abnormal.

2. The driving conditions monitoring device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the abnormality processing unit includes an alarming module and a timing module both connected to the control unit, the alarming module generates an alarm for the driver when the control unit judges the driver is in an abnormal state, the timing module has preset a time therein to control an alarming time of the alarming module.

3. The driving conditions monitoring device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the abnormality processing unit further includes an emergency processing module connected to the control unit to switch the vehicle to an automatic drive mode when the control unit judges the driver is in an abnormal state after the preset time.

4. The driving conditions monitoring device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the abnormality processing unit further includes a wireless communication module having predetermined phone numbers of the communication terminals therein, the wireless communication module is connected to the control unit to communicate with the predetermined communication terminals for help when the control unit judges the driver is in an abnormal state after the preset time.

5. A driving conditions monitoring method, comprising:

obtaining an image of the expression of the driver and the driving road condition;

processing the image information;

judging whether the state of the driver is normal or abnormal according to the processed image information of the expression of the drivers and the driving road; and

if the state of the driver is abnormal, generating an alarm signal for the driver.

6. The driving conditions monitoring method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising controlling the alarming time within a preset time when generating an alarm for the driver.

7. The driving conditions monitoring method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising obtaining the image of the expression of the driver and the driving road condition, processing the image information, judging whether the state of the driver is normal during the preset time according to the image information of the expression of the driver and the driving road, and stopping alarming when the state of the driver is normal.

8. The driving conditions monitoring method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising communicating with predetermined communication terminals for help when the state of the driver is abnormal after the preset time.

9. The driving conditions monitoring method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising switching the vehicle to an automatic drive mode when the control unit judges the driver is in an abnormal state after the preset time.