DRIVE EVENT CAPTURING BASED ON GEOLOCATION

• US 20130096731A1
• Filed: 10/12/2011
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
• Inventors: Botnen, Joshua Donald, Tamari, Roni
• Granted Patent: US 9,298,575 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3013 where the computing system is an embedded system, i.e. a combination of hardware and software dedicated to perform a certain function in mobile devices, printers, automotive or aircraft systems testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof G05B23/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3072 where the reporting involves data filtering, e.g. pattern matching, time or event triggered, adaptive or policy-based reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

A system for drive event capturing based on geolocation comprises an interface and a processor. The interface receives driving data from one or more onboard sensors of a vehicle, and the processor is configured to capturing a drive event based on a geolocation of the vehicle. The capturing of the drive event includes causing storage of driving data associated with the drive event.

Claims

1. A system for drive event capturing based on geolocation, comprising:

an interface for receiving driving data from one or more onboard sensors of a vehicle; and

a processor configured to capture a drive event based on a geolocation of the vehicle, wherein capturing of the drive event includes causing storage of driving data associated with the drive event; and

a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the drive event includes a vehicle collision drive event.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein capturing the drive event based on geolocation comprises capturing the drive event based on a geolocation based criterion.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the geolocation based criterion is determined using a database that associates one or more geolocation based criteria with a given geolocation.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the database comprises a digital map.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the geolocation of the vehicle is represented using a set of geographic coordinates of the vehicle.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the geolocation of the vehicle is represented using a geo-fenced area within which the vehicle is located.

8. The system of claim 3, wherein the drive event is detected based at least in part on the geolocation based criterion.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein a start of the drive event is detected based at least in part on the geolocation based criterion.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein an end of the drive event is detected based at least in part on the geolocation based criterion.

11. The system of claim 3, wherein the geolocation based criterion reflects the effect of geolocation on whether the driving data represents a true drive event of interest.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein driving data comprises sensor data.

13. The system of claim 3, wherein the geolocation based criterion includes a geolocation based sensor threshold value for detecting the drive event.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the sensor threshold comprises one or more of the following:

a vehicle speed threshold, a vehicle acceleration threshold, and a vehicle deceleration threshold.

15. The system of claim 3, wherein the geolocation based criterion includes a geolocation based drive event data profile for detecting the drive event.

16. The system of claim 3,

wherein the geolocation based criterion includes a geolocation based non-event profile;

and

wherein capturing the drive event based on geolocation based criterion includes rejecting a detected drive event as non-event based on the geolocation based non-event profile.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the non-event profile includes a geolocation based pot-hole profile experienced by a moving vehicle.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the non-event profile includes a geolocation based speed bump profile experienced by a moving vehicle.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the non-event profile includes a geolocation based bumpy road profile experienced by a moving vehicle.

20. The system of claim 1, further comprising uploading the driving data associated with the drive event from a volatile memory buffer to a persistent storage.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more onboard sensors comprises one or more of the following:

an image capturing device, a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, a vehicle operation state sensor, a speedometer, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope

22. The system of claim 1, wherein capturing the drive event includes capturing a portion of pre-event driving data, a portion of during-event driving data, and a portion of post-event driving data.

23. A method for capturing drive event based on geolocation, comprising:

receiving driving data from one or more onboard sensors of a vehicle; and

capturing a drive event based on a geolocation of the vehicle, wherein capturing of the drive event includes causing storage of driving data associated with the drive event.

24. A computer program product for assessing performance of a driver, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving driving data from one or more onboard sensors of a vehicle; and

capturing a drive event based on a geolocation of the vehicle, wherein capturing of the to drive event includes causing storage of driving data associated with the drive event.