FAILURE DETECTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE

• US 20160379350A1
• Filed: 04/07/2015
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: MATSUI, Ryohei, KOIE, Yoshio, OGAWA, Hiroaki, YAMASHIRO, Takahisa
• Granted Patent: US 10,121,240 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 11/005 with cap and base layers
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/44 for indicating braking action or preparation for braking, e.g. by detection of the foot approaching the brake pedal
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 11/005 for lighting devices, e.g. indicating if lamps are burning or not
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 1/4228 arrangements with two or more detectors, e.g. for sensitivity compensation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30252 Vehicle exterior; Vicinity of vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/001 using an image reference approach
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/584 of vehicle lights or traffic lights
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

A failure detection system includes: an information processing device mounted in a vehicle or installed on a road; and a vehicle-mounted device mounted in another vehicle. The information processing device includes: a lighting determination device of a rear lamp of a periphery vehicle; an acquisition device of vehicle identification information of the periphery vehicle; and a transmission control device transmitting result information of lighting determination and the vehicle identification information to the vehicle-mounted device. The vehicle-mounted device includes: a vehicle determination device determining whether the periphery vehicle is the another vehicle; and an output device producing an output in accordance with the result information when the periphery vehicle is the another vehicle.

Claims

1. A failure detection system comprising:

an information processing device mounted in a vehicle or installed on a road; and

a vehicle-mounted device mounted in another vehicle different from the vehicle, wherein;

the information processing device and the vehicle-mounted device are communicable with each other by wireless communication;

the information processing device includes;

a lighting determination device that performs a lighting determination for determining whether a lamp turns on, based on a captured image captured by an imaging device for capturing an image of a periphery of the information processing device, the lamp being arranged at a rear of further another vehicle on the periphery of the information processing device;

an acquisition device that acquires vehicle identification information for identifying the further another vehicle as a target for the lighting determination of the lighting determination device; and

a transmission control device that transmits result information and the vehicle identification information acquired by the acquisition device to the vehicle-mounted device, the result information showing a result of the lighting determination of the lighting determination device; and

the vehicle-mounted device includes;

a vehicle determination device that determines whether the further another vehicle, identified by the vehicle identification information transmitted by the transmission control device, is the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device; and

an output device that produces an output in accordance with the result shown in the result information when the vehicle determination device determines that the further another vehicle identified by the vehicle identification information is the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device.

2. The failure detection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the information processing device further includes a stop determination device that determines whether the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device is at a stop; and

the lighting determination device performs the lighting determination when the stop determination device determines that the vehicle is at a stop.

3. The failure detection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the information processing device further includes a traveling determination device that determines whether the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device is traveling at a speed equal to or higher than a predetermined speed; and

the lighting determination device performs the lighting determination when the traveling determination device determines that the another vehicle is traveling at a speed equal to or higher than the predetermined speed.

4. The failure detection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle-mounted device further includes a second transmission control device that transmits mounting vehicle information, for identifying the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device, to the information processing device;

the information processing device further includes a second vehicle determination device that determines whether furthermore another vehicle on the periphery of the another vehicle mounting the information processing device or the furthermore another vehicle on a periphery of a region in which the information processing device is installed is the another vehicle identified by the mounting vehicle information transmitted from the second transmission control device; and

when the second vehicle determination device determined that the furthermore another vehicle as a target for determination is the another vehicle identified by the mounting vehicle information, the lighting determination device performs the lighting determination of the furthermore another vehicle determined as the target.

5. The failure detection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle-mounted device further includes a third transmission control device that transmits a signal, as a trigger for starting the lighting determination of the lighting determination device, to the information processing device; and

the lighting determination device performs the lighting determination when the information processing device receives the signal from the vehicle-mounted device.

6. The failure detection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle identification information is a vehicle identification number; and

the acquisition device acquires the vehicle identification number of the vehicle as the target for the lighting determination of the lighting determination device from the captured image captured by the imaging device.

7. The failure detection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle identification information is a vehicle identification number;

the vehicle-mounted device includes a fourth transmission control device that transmits the vehicle identification number of the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device to the information processing device; and

the acquisition device acquires the vehicle identification number transmitted from the fourth transmission control device as the vehicle identification information.

8. The failure detection system according to claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle-mounted device further includes;

an information extraction device that extracts feature information, showing a feature of a vehicle traveling behind the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device, from a captured image captured by a rear imaging device for capturing a scene behind the vehicle; and

a fifth transmission control device that transmits the feature information, extracted by the information extraction device, to the information processing device;

the information processing device is a device mounted in the vehicle;

the information processing device includes;

an execution determination device that determines whether the lighting determination device executes the lighting determination based on the feature information transmitted by the fifth transmission control device and a feature of the another vehicle mounting the information extraction device; and

the lighting determination device executes the lighting determination when the execution determination device determines to execute the lighting determination.

9. The failure detection system according to claim 8, wherein:

the feature information is a vehicle identification number or a vehicle body color.

10. An information processing device for providing the failure detection system according to claim 1.

11. A vehicle-mounted device for providing the failure detection system according to claim 1.

12. An information processing device, which is mounted in a vehicle or installed on a road, and provides a failure detection system with a vehicle-mounted device mounted in another vehicle different from the vehicle, the information processing device and the vehicle-mounted device being communicable with each other by wireless communication, the information processing device comprising:

a lighting determination device that performs a lighting determination for determining whether a lamp turns on, based on a captured image captured by an imaging device for capturing an image of a periphery of the information processing device, the lamp being arranged at a rear of further another vehicle on the periphery of the information processing device;

an acquisition device that acquires vehicle identification information for identifying the further another vehicle as a target for the lighting determination of the lighting determination device; and

a transmission control device that transmits result information and the vehicle identification information acquired by the acquisition device to the vehicle-mounted device, the result information showing a result of the lighting determination of the lighting determination device, wherein;

the vehicle-mounted device includes;

a vehicle determination device that determines whether the further another vehicle, identified by the vehicle identification information transmitted by the transmission control device, is the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device; and

an output device that produces an output in accordance with the result shown in the result information when the vehicle determination device determines that the further another vehicle identified by the vehicle identification information is the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device.

13. A vehicle-mounted device, which provides a failure detection system with an information processing device mounted in a vehicle or installed on a road, and is mounted in another vehicle different from the vehicle,

the information processing device and the vehicle-mounted device being communicable with each other by wireless communication,

the information processing device including:

a lighting determination device that performs a lighting determination for determining whether a lamp turns on, based on a captured image captured by an imaging device for capturing an image of a periphery of the information processing device, the lamp being arranged at a rear of further another vehicle on the periphery of the information processing device;

an acquisition device that acquires vehicle identification information for identifying the further another vehicle as a target for the lighting determination of the lighting determination device; and

a transmission control device that transmits result information and the vehicle identification information acquired by the acquisition device to the vehicle-mounted device, the result information showing a result of the lighting determination of the lighting determination device,

the vehicle-mounted device comprising;

a vehicle determination device that determines whether the further another vehicle, identified by the vehicle identification information transmitted by the transmission control device, is the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device; and

an output device that produces an output in accordance with the result shown by the result information when the vehicle determination device determines that the further another vehicle identified by the vehicle identification information is the another vehicle mounting the vehicle-mounted device.