TRACKING AND ANALYSIS OF DRIVERS WITHIN A FLEET OF VEHICLES

• US 20180315318A1
• Filed: 06/27/2018
• Published: 11/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digital Ally Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Digital Ally Incorporated
• Inventors: Farnham, IV, James W., Phillips, Steven L., Troxel, Jason R., Rumage, John
• Granted Patent: US 11,244,570 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/08 Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means
• 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 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/127 to a central station ; Indicators in a central station
• 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 tracking a fleet of vehicles and analyzing a driver associated with the fleet of vehicles. The system includes a monitoring engine for receiving information from a vehicle-tracking device associated with a vehicle of the fleet. A mapping engine displays, to a user, an icon indicative of an incident on a map. A video repository engine receives video data from a video camera associated with the vehicle and associates an incident video with the icon. A driver analysis engine obtains the incident information associated with a plurality of drivers and analyzes the incident information associated with the driver to generate a driver profile. The driver analysis engine compares the driver with corresponding drivers in the same and other fleets.

Claims

1. A computerized method of receiving video data, the method comprising:

tracking a first video camera,

wherein the tracking of the first video camera includes collecting a record of the first video camera'"'"'s location and orientation through time;

receiving an inquiry location and an inquiry time;

determining that the first video camera may include a view of the inquiry location at the inquiry time based upon the tracking of the first video camera;

requesting video data from the first video camera associated with the inquiry time;

receiving the video data from the first video camera.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the video data from the first video camera is received upon the first video camera returning to a vicinity of an upload location.

3. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking a second video camera,

wherein the tracking of the second video camera includes collecting a record of the second video camera'"'"'s location and orientation through time; and

determining that the first video camera does not include a view of the inquiry location at the inquiry time based upon the tracking of the first video camera.

4. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the inquiry location and the inquiry time are both received from a user.

5. The computerized method of claim 4, wherein the inquiry location is indicated by the user selecting a location on a map that is displayed to a user.

6. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the inquiry location and the inquiry time are generated based upon an incident indication.

7. The computerized method of claim 6, wherein the incident indication was received from a camera external to the fleet of cameras.

8. The computerized method of claim 7, wherein the video data is received by requesting video data from an external administrator such that the video data is not directly accessible to the user.

9. A computerized method of receiving video data, the method comprising:

tracking a first video camera and a second video camera,

wherein the tracking of the first video camera includes collecting a record of the first video camera'"'"'s location and orientation through time,

wherein the tracking of the second video camera includes collecting a record of the second video camera'"'"'s location and orientation through time,

receiving, from the first video camera, an incident indication with an associated time and location;

acquiring a first set of video data from the first video camera which includes video data of the associated time;

generating an inquiry location and an inquiry time based on the incident indication;

determining that an area visible by the second video camera may include a view of the inquiry location at the inquiry time based upon the tracking of the second video camera;

requesting video data recorded by the second video camera; and

receiving a second set of video data from the second video camera which includes video data of the inquiry time.

10. The computerized method of claim 9,

wherein the first set of video data from the first video camera is received upon the first video camera returning to a vicinity of a first upload location,

wherein the second set of video data from the second video camera is received upon the second video camera returning to a vicinity of a second upload location,

wherein only the requested video data is transferred.

11. The computerized method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the first upload location and the second upload location allows a WiFi connection.

12. The computerized method of claim 9, wherein the step of determining the area visible by the second video camera is performed in response to a user selecting an incident icon displayed on a map to the user.

13. The computerized method of claim 9, wherein the first camera belongs to a fleet that is separate than a fleet to which the second camera belongs.

14. The computerized method of claim 13, wherein the second set of video data is received by a request to an external administrator.

15. The computerized method of claim 13, wherein the incident information is indicative of a flawed driving performance.

16. A computerized method of receiving video, the method comprising:

tracking a first video camera,

wherein the tracking of the first video camera includes collecting a record of the first video camera'"'"'s location and orientation through time;

receiving, at a video repository, video data from the first video camera;

receiving, at a time later than the video data is received at the video repository, an inquiry location and an inquiry time;

determining that the video data from the first video camera may include a view of the inquiry location at the inquiry time based upon the tracking of the first video camera;

requesting video data from the video repository associated with first video camera and the inquiry time;

receiving the video data from the video repository.

17. The computerized method of claim 16, wherein the inquiry location and the inquiry time are both received from a user.

18. The computerized method of claim 16, wherein the video data from the first video camera is wirelessly uploaded to the video repository upon the first video camera returning to a vicinity of an upload location.

19. The computerized method of claim 16, wherein only the requested video data is transferred.

20. The computerized method of claim 16, further comprising:

tracking a second video camera,

wherein the tracking of the second video camera includes collecting a record of the second video camera'"'"'s location and orientation through time; and

determining that the second video camera does include a view of the inquiry location at the inquiry time based upon the tracking of the second video camera,

wherein the first camera belongs to a fleet that is separate than a fleet to which the second camera belongs.

wherein the second set of video data is received by a request to an external administrator.