System, Method, and Apparatus for Automatic Generation of Training based upon Operator-Related Data

• US 20130302755A1
• Filed: 07/11/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Instructional Technologies, Inc. (John F. Stafford Insurance Agency, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Instructional Technologies, Inc. (John F. Stafford Insurance Agency, Inc.)
• Inventors: Voorhees, James W., Stahlman, Nathan P., Purvis, Aaron M., Schwendiman, Chad E.
• Application Number:
  US13/939,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20130302755A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/30
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/16 Control of vehicles or other craft simulators G09B9/02
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/162 Control of ships, boats, or other waterborne vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/165 Control of aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/167 Control of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

A system automatically generates a training lesson from a plurality of frames located within the storage. Each frame has a component of training. After operator-related data is collected from one or more vehicles, details of the operator-related data are saved. In some examples, the operator-related data correlates to a single operator (e.g. the driver, pilot, etc. that operated a known vehicle) while in other examples, the operator-related data correlates to several operators. Software selects at least one frame from the plurality of frames based upon the operator-related data and creates a lesson. The lesson, which includes the selected frame(s) from the plurality of frames, is provided to the operator or operators.

Claims

1. A lesson generator comprising:

a computer system having access to storage;

a plurality of frames located within the storage, each frame having a component of training;

a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles having means for collecting operator-related data;

software running on the computer system reads the operator-related data, selects at least one lesson frame from the plurality of frames based upon the operator-related data, and creates a lesson, the lesson includes the at least one lesson frame; and

the software stores the lesson in the storage.

2. The lesson generator of claim 1, wherein the operator-related data consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of distance maintained from other vehicles, position within a driving lane, date regarding turning from/into the wrong lane, data regarding sudden lane changes, and GPS coordinates.

3. The lesson generator of claim 1, wherein the operator-related data consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of audio system levels, braking forces, acceleration forces, turn radius, speeds, excessive speed, horn operation, and parking data.

4. The lesson generator of claim 1, further comprising software that reads the lesson from the storage and presents the lesson to one or more operators of the plurality of vehicles.

5. The lesson generator of claim 4, wherein the software records in the storage a record of which frames are presented to each operator of the one or more operators.

6. A method of training comprising:

(a) storing a plurality of frames, the frames accessible by a computer system;

(b) receiving operator-related data from one or more vehicles and storing the operator-related data in a storage of the computer system;

(c) the computer system generating a lesson for one or more operators of the one or more vehicles by assembling a subset of the plurality of frames that are related to operating issues detected in the operator-related data;

(d) presenting the lesson to each of the one or more operators; and

(e) recording results of the lesson for each of the one or more operators in a record of a profile database associated with the each of the one or more operators.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the operator-related data consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of distance maintained from other vehicles, position within a driving lane, date regarding turning from/into the wrong lane, data regarding sudden lane changes, and GPS coordinates.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the operator-related data consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of audio system levels, braking forces, acceleration forces, turn radius, speeds, excessive speed, horn operation, and parking data.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising the computer system reading the lesson from the storage and presenting the lesson simultaneously to one or more operators of the one or more vehicles.

10. The lesson generator of claim 9, further comprising the computer system recording in the storage a record of which frames are presented to each operator of the one or more operators.

11. The lesson generator of claim 6, wherein the one or more vehicles is one vehicle and the one or more operators is one operator.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of presenting comprises:

for each frame of the lesson;

(d1) presenting content from the frame to the one or more operators;

(d2) quizzing each operator of the one or more operators to ascertain how much of the content is understood; and

(d3) if the quizzing indicates that the content is not understood, repeating steps d1-d3.

13. A computer-based system for lesson generation, the computer-base system comprising:

a computer;

storage operatively interfaced to the computer;

a plurality of frames located within the storage, each of the frames having a component of training;

a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles having means for collecting operator-related data; and

software running on the computer system, the software selects at least one frame from the plurality of frames based upon the operator-related data and the software creates a lesson, the lesson includes the at least one frame related to the operator-related data.

14. The computer-based system for lesson generation of claim 13, further comprising a profile database, the profile database includes a plurality of profile records, each of the profile records are associated with operators of the plurality of vehicles, each profile record of the profile includes authorization data, training records and demographics for the operator to which the profile record is associated.

15. The computer-based system for lesson generation of claim 14, whereas the software further selects at least one additional frame from the plurality of frames for inclusion in the lesson based upon data within one of the profile records that is associated with the operator.

16. The computer-based system for lesson generation of claim 13, wherein the software reads the lesson from the storage and presents the lesson to one or more operators of the plurality of vehicles.

17. The computer-based system for lesson generation of claim 13, wherein the operator-related data correlates to one particular operator of one of the plurality of vehicles and the software reads the lesson from the storage and presents the lesson to the one particular operator

18. The computer-based system for lesson generation of claim 13, wherein the vehicle is selected from the group consisting of a truck, a car, a boat, a train and an airplane.

19. The computer-based system for lesson generation of claim 13, wherein the operator-related data consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of distance maintained from other vehicles, position within a driving lane, date regarding turning from/into the wrong lane, data regarding sudden lane changes, and GPS coordinates.

20. The computer-based system for lesson generation of claim 13, wherein the operator-related data consists of at least one element selected from the group consisting of audio system levels, braking forces, acceleration forces, turn radius, speeds, excessive speed, horn operation, and parking data.