Application for vehicle-to-vehicle communication

• US 9,936,025 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2014
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Cai, Danqing, Lu, Haiyun, Tew, Kar Leong
• Primary Examiner(s): Chou, Alan S
• Application Number:
  US14/316,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20150381551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,377 Days
• Field of Search: 709206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Described herein is a framework for vehicle-to-vehicle communication. In accordance with one aspect, a send message to a receiving driver of a receiving vehicle is generated from a sending end-user device in response to a user event from a sending driver. The send message may be generated to include an image of the receiving vehicle of the receiving driver, and a voice message created by the sending driver. The send message may be sent to a server using the sending end-user device. The send message may further be processed by the server, in which the processing may include identifying the receiving vehicle, searching to find information of a receiving end-user device, and sending the send message to the receiving end-user device if information of the receiving end-user device is found.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for vehicle-to-vehicle communication comprising:

in response to a user event from a sending driver, initiating a voice command by the sending driver for generating a send message to a receiving driver of a receiving vehicle from a sending end-user device, wherein generating the send message comprises providing an image of the receiving vehicle of the receiving driver, creating a voice message by the sending driver, and determining geographical identification derived from a global positioning system of the sending end-user device and including a time stamp, wherein the image is created immediately preceding or succeeding the initiation of the generation of the send message;

sending the send message encapsulating the image, the voice message, and the geographical identification to a server using the sending end-user device; and

processing the send message by the server, wherein processing comprises identifying the receiving vehicle based on the encapsulated image and the geographical identification, searching to find information of a receiving end-user device, and sending the send message to the receiving end-user device if information of the receiving end-user device is found.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 comprising:

saving the send message in the server after sending to the receiving end-user device; and

saving the send message in the server if the receiving end-user information is not found.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein providing the image comprises:

capturing the image with the receiving vehicle; and

processing the image to extract an image portion of the registration number of the receiving vehicle.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein providing the image comprises:

continuously capturing images of a road in front of the sending driver;

providing the image with the receiving vehicle which is captured just before the user event.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein providing the image comprises:

continuously processing an image as it is captured to extract at least an image portion of the registration number of the receiving vehicle; and

providing the processed image.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising processing the image to extract at least an image portion of the registration number of the receiving vehicle.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein creating the voice message comprises the sending driver speaking the vehicle registration number of the receiving vehicle, a voice message to the receiving driver and a driver rating of the receiving driver.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 wherein processing the send message by the server comprises:

processing the voice message using voice recognition to determine the vehicle registration number of the receiving driver from the voice message;

processing the image using image recognition to determine the vehicle registration number of the receiving driver from the image;

determining if the vehicle registration number of the receiving driver from the image matches that from the voice message; and

searching to find information of the receiving end-user device if the vehicle registration number from the image matches that from the voice message.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 comprises:

saving the send message in the server after sending to the receiving end-user device;

saving the send message in the server if the receiving end-user information is not found.

10. A vehicle-to-vehicle communication system comprising:

a frontend subsystem on a sending end-user device for receiving an initiate send message voice command to generate a send message, wherein the send message comprises and encapsulates a voice component to a receiving vehicle, an image of the receiving vehicle, and geographical identification derived from a global positioning system of the sending end-user device and including a time stamp, wherein the image is created immediately preceding or succeeding the initiation of the generation of the send message; and

a backend subsystem for processing the send message to send to the receiving vehicle, the backend subsystem comprises a server with

a voice recognition module, the voice recognition module processes the voice component of the received send message from the frontend subsystem to recognize a vehicle registration number,

a database module containing vehicle registration numbers, vehicle contact information, and saved send messages,

an identification module for searching the database module for the vehicle registration number and vehicle contact information in the voice component, and

a communication module for pushing the send message to a receiving end-user device associated with the receiving vehicle.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein:

the send message comprises an image component, the image component includes the vehicle registration number of the receiving vehicle; and

the backend subsystem further comprises an image processing module, the image processing module processes an image of the send message to recognize a registration number of a vehicle in the image.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the identification module searches the database module if the vehicle registration number in the image and voice components match.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the backend subsystem further comprises a message interface module for receiving and sending send messages.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the receiving end-user device comprises the frontend subsystem.

15. The system of claim 10 wherein the database module comprises an in-memory database module.

16. The system of claim 10 wherein the frontend subsystem comprises:

a controller module for detecting the initiate send message voice command;

a voice module for generating the voice component of the send message in response to the initiate send message voice command; and

an interface module for sending and receiving send messages.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the frontend subsystem comprises an image module for generating an image component of the send message.

18. A computer-implemented method for vehicle-to-vehicle communication comprising:

continuously capturing images of a road in front of a sending driver;

in response to a user event from the sending driver, initiating a voice command by the sending driver for generating a send message to a receiving driver of a receiving vehicle from a sending end-user device, wherein generating the send message comprises creating a voice message by the sending driver, providing an image of the receiving vehicle which is captured just before the user event, and determining geographical identification derived from a global positioning system of the sending end-user device and including a time stamp, wherein the image is created immediately preceding or succeeding the initiation of the generation of the send message; and

sending the send message encapsulating the image, the voice message, and the geographical identification to a server using the sending end-user device for processing to identify, using the image and the geographical identification, a receiving end-user device in the receiving vehicle and to send the send message to the receiving end-user device.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 wherein generating the send message further comprises processing the image of the receiving vehicle to extract an image portion of the registration number of the receiving vehicle.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 18 wherein creating the voice message comprises the sending driver speaking the vehicle registration number of the receiving vehicle, a voice message to the receiving driver and a driver rating of the receiving driver.