Automatic time adjusting device for GPS of car safety control system

• US 20100262339A1
• Filed: 10/26/2007
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ADC Telecommunications Incorporated (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Original Assignee: ADC Telecommunications Incorporated (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Inventors: Chang, Ching-Shan
• Application Number:
  US11/976,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20100262339A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/45
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0891 Video recorder in combination with video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

An automatic time adjusting device of a GPS of car safety control systems is disclosed. The car safety control system includes at least a car DVR, a GPS receiver and some other components such as a plurality of image sensors, a speaker and a car display monitor so as to achieve monitoring for vehicular safety. The GPS receiver receives the location information, clock signals of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and standard second signal from a GPS satellite. By means of a time zone setting unit, the value of the time difference between the GMT and each of 24 the time zones on earth is provided according to the GPS location information. Then a microprocessor calculates the value of the time difference and determines the current time data such as the values of year/month/day/hour/minute/second in accordance with the car location. Due to connections between the car DVR, the GPS receiver, the time zone setting unit and the microprocessor, the current time data and/or location information such as the latitude and longitude of vehicles are/is recorded and displayed synchronously in the digital image data of the car DVR or displayed on a display unit of the car DVR. Therefore, performance of the car safety control system is improved.

Claims

1. An automatic time adjusting device for global positioning systems (GPS) of car safety control systems comprising at least one car digital video recorder (DVR), a GPS receiver, a time zone setting unit and a microprocessor while the car safety control system comprising at least one car digital video recorder (DVR) and at least one GPS receiver;

wherein

the car DVR disposed with a plurality of data storage units is used to record dynamic image and/or voice data in digital manner and save recorded real-time image and/or voice data into the data storage unit;

the GPS receiver that includes a receiving unit, a receiving end and an output end, receives location information of vehicles, clock signals of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and standard second signal from GPS satellite signal by the receiving unit and the receiving end and sends the information to the microprocessor by the output end;

the time zone setting unit is used to set values of time difference between GMT time and each of 24 time zones on earth by vehicle positioning information from GPS and is connected with the microprocessor;

the microprocessor is connected with the output end of the GPS receiver as well as the time zone setting unit and is for processing values of time difference provided by the time zone setting unit so as to determine current time data and send the current time data to the car DVR;

in accordance with the DVR, the GPS receiver, the time zone setting unit and the microprocessor connected with one another, the current time data is recorded in digital image data of the car DVR synchronously.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GPS receiver is operated in reference location relative to global WGS-84 coordinate system with C/A code.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the location information of vehicles is recorded and displayed in digital image data of the car DVR synchronously as the current time data.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GPS automatic time adjusting device of car safety control systems further comprising a display unit disposed in the car DVR for showing the current time data.