Method and device for simultaneous enhancing safety of driving and security of drivers
First Claim
1. A method of avoidance of traffic accidents and violations through significant enhancing safety and convenience of driving by providing a better observation including under limited visibility conditions comprising:
- a) positioning aboard a vehicle at least one digital camera with facile attaching and detaching, said digital camera having at least one photoreceiver, one lens for forward view, and one lens for rear view, whereby an user can employ the camera separately from said vehicle for regular manually operated applications;
b) continuously shooting at a predetermined frequency by the camera, unless turned off manually, surroundings of said vehicle;
c) filtering out by said camera under limited visibility conditions the visible part of received light flow including dazzling headlights to give significantly distinct vision of said surroundings to a driver under low light or fog, rain, snowfall or smoky conditions;
d) showing images captured in front and on the sides of, and behind said vehicle by said digital camera on at least one onboard screen so that said driver can see forward, left and right, and rear views of a full real-time picture of said surroundings at a glance, including under low light or fog, rain, snowfall or smoky conditions.
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Abstract
The method and device help avoid traffic accidents and violations through significant enhancing safety and convenience of driving by providing a far better rear and side observation including in darkness, and reliably prevent, if an accident/violation occurs, from misjudging, owing to an unbeatable legal evidence through recording the objective pattern of the accident/violation . It is accomplished by positioning into a vehicle an onboard digital camera having at least one lens with a photo-receiver, shooting permanently the surroundings at an predetermined frequency, showing images captured on at least one onboard screen, and making the running sequence of images through digital memory so that a latest image captured is recorded and stored in digital memory expelling an oldest one and the overall amount of the images and, hence, duration of time recorded does not change. When responding to an accident/violation, at the instant of occurrence plus a predetermined delay, shooting stops (either automatically by an impact of a collision, or manually), and digital memory retains the congealed sequence of images just before, during, and shortly after the event.
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1. A method of avoidance of traffic accidents and violations through significant enhancing safety and convenience of driving by providing a better observation including under limited visibility conditions comprising:
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a) positioning aboard a vehicle at least one digital camera with facile attaching and detaching, said digital camera having at least one photoreceiver, one lens for forward view, and one lens for rear view, whereby an user can employ the camera separately from said vehicle for regular manually operated applications;
b) continuously shooting at a predetermined frequency by the camera, unless turned off manually, surroundings of said vehicle;
c) filtering out by said camera under limited visibility conditions the visible part of received light flow including dazzling headlights to give significantly distinct vision of said surroundings to a driver under low light or fog, rain, snowfall or smoky conditions;
d) showing images captured in front and on the sides of, and behind said vehicle by said digital camera on at least one onboard screen so that said driver can see forward, left and right, and rear views of a full real-time picture of said surroundings at a glance, including under low light or fog, rain, snowfall or smoky conditions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method of reliable prevention, if an accident/violation occurs, from misjudging, owing to an unbeatable legal evidence through recording the fill objective pattern of the accident/violation comprising:
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a) positioning aboard a vehicle at least one digital camera with facile attaching and detaching, said digital camera having at least one photoreceiver, one lens for forward view, one lens for rear view, means for selectively reading out said photoreceiver to get image signals, solid state digital memory to store said image signals, a data processor, a terminating manually operated switch, and a terminating automatic impactresponsive circuit;
b) continuously shooting at a predetermined frequency and recording by the camera, unless turned off manually, surroundings of said vehicle, therewith filtering out under limited visibility conditions the visible part of received light flow including dazzling headlights in front of and from behind said vehicle to give significantly distinct pictures of said surroundings just before, during, and shortly after the accident/violation;
c) making a running sequence of images captured through the digital memory by said data processor so that a latest image captured is recorded and stored in said memory therewith expelling an oldest image after said memory is full, whereby the overall amount of images in said memory and thus duration of time recorded does not change;
d) responding to an accident/violation, at the instant of occurrence plus a predetermined delay, the shooting is stopped by at least one of terminating the impactresponsive automatic circuit and the manually operated switch, whichever is earlier, and said memory retains the congealed sequence of images just before, during, and shortly after the occurrence;
e) reviewing by persons interested from said memory the sequence of images captured in front and on the sides of and behind said vehicle by said digital camera to get the full objective pattern of an accident/violation. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7)
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8. A vehicle vision system for avoidance of traffic accidentt/violations through significant enhancing safety and convenience of driving by providing a better observation including under limited visibility conditions and reliable prevention, if an accident/violation occurs, from misjudging, owing to an unbeatable legal evidence through recording the objective pattern of the accident/violation comprising:
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a) aboard a vehicle, at least one readily attaching and detaching digital camera for shooting continuously at a predetermined frequency surroundings by the camera, unless turned off manually, having;
at least one lens with a photoreceiver;
means for selectively reading out said photoreceiver to get image signals;
solid state digital memory to store said image signals;
a data processor making a running sequence of images captured through the memory so that a latest image captured is recorded and stored in said memory, therewith expelling an oldest image after said memory is full, and the overall amount of the images in said memory and thus duration of time recorded does not change;
a terminating automatic impactresponsive circuit and a terminating manually operated switch to stop said shooting responding to an accident/violation at the instant of occurrence plus a predetermined delay, and to provide that said memory retains the congealed sequence of images just before, during, and shortly after the occurrence;
means for selectively filtering out under limited visibility conditions the visible part of received light flow including dazzling headlights in front of and from behind said vehicle to give significantly distinct pictures of said surroundings under low light or fog, rain, snowfall, or smoky conditions;
b) at least one onboard screen for showing images captured by said camera so that a driver of said vehicle can see forward left and right, and rear views of a full real-time picture of said surroundings at a glance. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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