VEHICULAR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SHARING DATA USING THE SAME

• US 20140324247A1
• Filed: 04/28/2014
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd., Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd., Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Inventors: JUN, Dong Sok
• Granted Patent: US 9,324,201 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0866 the electronic data carrier being a digital video recorder in combination with video camera

Abstract

Provided are a vehicular image processing apparatus and a method of sharing data using the same that may verify a driving route of a vehicle or detect and share a location of a vehicle by analyzing recorded images of the image processing apparatus, for example, a black box, thereby increasing data usage and utilization.

Claims

1. A vehicular image processing apparatus mountable in a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

an impact detector to detect an accident event occurring with respect to the vehicle;

a controller to generate a request signal to request a peripheral vehicle near a location at which the detected accident event occurs to transmit recorded data associated with the accident event to an external server; and

a communication unit to transmit the request signal to the peripheral vehicle.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication unit broadcasts the request signal to the peripheral vehicle.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication unit transmits the request signal to the peripheral vehicle via the external server.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication unit receives the recorded data from the external server based on an access authority set for the recorded data.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the access authority is set in phases for at least one data type included in the recorded data.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the access authority is set for an entity that accesses the recorded data.

7. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the access authority comprises information regarding whether a retrieval of the recorded data is allowed.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the recorded data comprises at least one of driving information corresponding to the accident event, location information corresponding to the accident event, and an external image corresponding to the accident event.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a camera module to acquire an external image corresponding to the accident event,

wherein the controller sets an access authority by generating recorded data comprising the external image, and

the communication unit transmits recorded data for which the access authority is set to the external server.

10. A vehicular image processing apparatus mountable in a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

a camera module to acquire an external image of the vehicle;

a controller to generate recorded data comprising an external image corresponding to an accident event and set an access authority for the generated recorded data when the accident event occurs in a vicinity of the vehicle; and

a communication unit to transmit the recorded data for which the access authority is set to an external server.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein, when a request signal is received from a peripheral vehicle near a location at which the accident event occurs, the communication unit transmits recorded data corresponding to the request signal to the external server.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the controller analyzes the acquired external image, and generates recorded data corresponding to the accident event when an occurrence of the accident event is verified.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

a microphone to acquire an external sound of the vehicle,

wherein the controller analyzes the acquired external sound, and generates recorded data corresponding to the accident event when an occurrence of the accident event is verified.

14. A data sharing method of a vehicular image processing apparatus mountable in a vehicle, the method comprising:

detecting an accident event occurring with respect to the vehicle;

generating a request signal to request a peripheral vehicle near a location at which the detected accident event occurs to transmit recorded data associated with the accident event to an external server; and

transmitting the request signal to the peripheral vehicle.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the transmitting comprises broadcasting the request signal to the peripheral vehicle.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the request signal to the peripheral vehicle via the external server.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

communicating with the external server to receive the recorded data.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the communicating comprises receiving the recorded data from the external server based on an access authority set for the recorded data.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the access authority is set in phases for at least one data type included in the recorded data.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the access authority is set for an entity that accesses the recorded data.