Driver information and dialog system

• US 20100127843A1
• Filed: 09/05/2007
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Koenig, Winfried
• Granted Patent: US 8,223,005 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/439
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/09 Driving style or behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention

Abstract

A driver information and dialog system disposed in a vehicle and relating to driver behavior data and driver condition data, having a data acquisition device and an input/output device, the output device informing the driver about a collecting, storage, use, processing, and or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data, and the input device allowing the driver to transmit his decision consenting to or denying the collecting, storage, use, processing, and/or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data. Furthermore, a method for informing the driver and for dialog with the driver regarding driver behavior data and driver condition data collected in a vehicle, the driver being informed about the collecting, storage, use, processing, and/or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data, and the driver making decisions about the collecting, storage, use, processing, and/or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A driver information and dialog system that is situated in a vehicle, comprising:

a data acquisition device;

an output device informing a driver of the vehicle about a collecting, storage, use, processing and/or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data; and

an input device allowing the driver to transmit a decision of the driver consenting to or denying the collecting, storage, use, processing, and/or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the data acquisition device acquires data from at least one of (a) a navigation system, (b) at least one driving condition sensor, (c) at least one driver assistance system, (d) a driver monitoring sensor system, and (e) a driver condition sensor system.

9. The system according to claim 8, further comprising an evaluation system for receiving the acquired data.

10. The system according to claim 7, further comprising a data transmission system for exchanging data with at least one stationary device.

11. The system according to claim 9, wherein the output device at least one of (a) provides driver behavior information, (b) provides driver condition information, and (c) makes suggestions to the driver, as a function of at least one evaluation result of the evaluation system.

12. A method for informing a driver of a vehicle and for having a dialog with the driver regarding driver behavior data and driver condition data, the method comprising:

informing the driver about a collecting, storage, use, processing, and/or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data in the vehicle; and

receiving a decision of the driver about the collecting, storage, use, processing, and/or transmission of driver behavior data and driver condition data.