429 results about "Automobile Accident" patented technology

A system for monitoring a location to detect and report a vehicular incident, comprising a transducer for detecting acoustic waves at the location, and having an audio output; a processor for determining a probable occurrence or impending occurrence of a vehicular incident, based at least upon said audio output; an imaging system for capturing images of the location, and having an image output; a buffer, receiving said image output, and storing at least a portion of said images commencing at or before said determination; and a communication link, for selectively communicating said portion of said images stored in said buffer with a remote location and at least information identifying the location, wherein information stored in said buffer is preserved at least until an acknowledgement of receipt is received representing successful transmission through said communication link with the remote location.

Systems and methods for taking risk out of driving are presented. The system comprises an event capture device that records audio, video, and other information that collectively comprise an event. The event data, including the audio, video, and other related information, is provided to an evaluation server where it is stored in a database of events. Driving events can be analyzed singularly or collectively to provide counseling of fleet drivers, reconstruction and forensic analysis of automobile accidents, and driver and / or vehicle scores / ratings.

Systems and methods for taking risk out of driving are presented. The system comprises an event capture device that records audio, video, and other information that collectively comprise an event. The event data, including the audio, video, and other related information, is provided to an evaluation server where it is stored in a database of events. Driving events can be analyzed singularly or collectively to provide counseling of fleet drivers, reconstruction and forensic analysis of automobile accidents, and driver and / or vehicle scores / ratings.

A system for monitoring a location to detect and report a vehicular incident, comprising a transducer for detecting acoustic waves at the location, and having an audio output; a processor for determining a probable occurrence or impending occurrence of a vehicular incident, based at least upon said audio output; an imaging system for capturing images of the location, and having an image output; a buffer, receiving said image output, and storing at least a portion of said images commencing at or before said determination; and a communication link, for selectively communicating said portion of said images stored in said buffer with a remote location and at least information identifying the location, wherein information stored in said buffer is preserved at least until an acknowledgement of receipt is received representing successful transmission through said communication link with the remote location.

A system and method of controlling a computer network to obtain information needed to render risk evaluative decisions from vendors in real time. The information may be obtained for agents preparing insurance applications or for an automated application processing system. Agents or automated application processing systems require access to an external vendor to obtain information about a customer, such as car accident or credit records. The request for data must be formatted to be read by the vendor system, which sends the responding data in real time. This responding data is forwarded to the requesting party for further processing of the application.

The invention discloses an automobile autopilot system comprising an automobile control unit, a positioning system, an information transmit-receive unit and a steering-by-wire system; wherein the automobile control unit is used for recording driving routes by the positioning system, for exchanging information between the automobile autopilot system and urban road monitoring center by the information transmit-receive unit, for correcting road information provided by urban road monitoring center, for recording the movement of steering wheels by the steering-by-wire system, and for correcting steering data by combining the positioning function of the positioning system. When the autopilot function is activated, the automobile control unit is used for automobile automatic piloting control according to road information, traffic report and steering data of a selected section of road. Real-time data interchange between the automobile autopilot system and urban road monitoring center is provided, so that road information can be updated timely; navigation accuracy is increased; traffic violations such as speeding, running red lights are decreased; car accident rate is decreased, and the safety of drivers is ensured in a certain level.

A child booster seat is configured for use in an automobile and includes a seat portion and can also include a backrest connected to the seat. The seat includes a suspended flexible seating surface, and a crash pad mounted onto the seat below the seating surface. During normal use, the seating surface provides enhanced comfort to the occupant. In the event of a sudden deceleration (for instance during an automobile accident), the occupant travels forward and down into the pad, which limits the amount of travel of the occupant and prevents the automobile safety belt from pressing against soft tissue and causing seat belt syndrome while, at the same time, absorbing at least a portion of the shock imparted onto the occupant.

An embodiment of the invention discloses an automobile driving behavior detection method and an apparatus thereof, and an automobile. The method comprises the following steps of according to an association relation among a plurality of operation characteristic parameters of the automobile, establishing an automobile operation model; collecting values of the plurality of operation characteristic parameters to train the automobile operation model so as to acquire an automobile operation prediction model, collecting driving behavior data and acquiring a predicted value of a first operation characteristic parameter corresponding to the driving behavior data; and according to the driving behavior data and the predicted value of the first operation characteristic parameter, carrying out driving behavior detection. By using the detection method and the apparatus thereof, and the automobile, based on a neural network, the automobile operation model is established; through machine learning, the automobile operation model is trained so as to acquire the automobile operation prediction model; whether a predicted value acquired through the automobile operation prediction model matches with the driving behavior data is determined; whether an abnormal driving condition is generated is determined; driving safety is increased, automobile accident generation is reduced and a life and property safety of a driver are effectively protected.

The invention relates to an electric automobile safety prewarning protection system and a method based on a cloud service vehicle-mounted terminal. The electric automobile safety prewarning protection system comprises a vehicle-mounted terminal and a cloud service terminal, wherein the vehicle-mounted terminal and the cloud service terminal directly communicate with each other wirelessly; and the cloud service terminal comprises an encryption service, a decryption service, a data storage server, a rescue guide server, a prewarning analysis server, an overhaul plan server and a battery tracking server and is used for finishing rescue guide, prewarning analysis, overhaul plan making, battery tracking and data cloud backup according to data sent by the vehicle-mounted terminal. The electric automobile safety prewarning protection system can monitor a battery box of an electric automobile all around and perform prewarning and treatment on battery safety from multiple layers and different angles; phenomena of spontaneous combustion and loss of the battery and automobile accidents are avoided; and the safety of people and the service life of the battery are guaranteed. Due to data storage supplied by the cloud service terminal, problems of data loss, virus invasion and the like are solved; and because of complete data, powerful basis is supplied to later-stage reason analysis for electric automobile accidents and safety prewarning and analysis for the electric automobile.

The invention relates to embedded techniques. In order to solve the problem that the traditional warner or similar product is aimed at fatigue driving and can only remind drivers, the invention provides an unsafe state early-warning device and method for the drivers. The invention has the technical scheme that the unsafe state early-warning device for the drivers is characterized by comprising a control processing module, an alcohol concentration detecting module, a fatigue driving detecting module, a health state detecting module and an automatic parking module; the control processing module is connected with the alcohol concentration detecting module; the fatigue driving detecting module is connected with the control processing module; the health state detecting module is connected with the control processing module; and the automatic parking module is connected with the control processing module. The unsafe state early-warning device and method for the drivers have the beneficial effects of reducing traffic accidents caused by unsafe driving, and being suitable for vehicles.

The invention discloses a traffic accident automatic identification processing method and system based on videos. The traffic accident automatic identification processing method and system based on the videos comprises the steps of respectively setting up three-dimensional feature libraries of different vehicle types, obtaining road video image sequences, carrying out foreground vehicle separation based on background modeling, carrying out static target judgment based on target centroid displacement, recognizing the vehicle types based on a vehicle outer contour recognition algorithm of three-dimensional modeling, judging whether a traffic accident occurs or not according to whether contour deformation occurs or not, extracting improved SIFT feature points of the vehicles based on an improved SIFT feature recognition algorithm of vehicles of the three-dimensional modeling, and judging whether a traffic accident occurs or not according to comparison results of the improved SIFT feature points. The traffic accident automatic identification processing method and system based on the videos judges whether vehicles on a current road are driven safely or not by analyzing images collected by a camera, collects information of a traffic accident scene in first time of a traffic accident, and transfers the information to a commanding monitoring centre. Workers can effectively and timely work by watching the videos, and the traffic accident automatic identification processing method and system based on the videos plays a huge role in perfecting a whole intelligent traffic system.

The invention discloses thermoforming steel with tensile strength of 1,700MPa level, which consists of the following components in percentage by weight: 0.27-0.50% of C, 0.28-0.50% of Si, 1.20-1.60% of Mn, 0.32-0.60% of Cr, 0.025-0.055% of Ti, 0.002-0.005% of B, 0.010-0.06% of Als, less than or equal to 0.012% of P, 0.010-0.035% of Nb or 0.30-0.45% of Mo or less than or equal to 0.50% of the mixture of Nb and Mo, less than or equal to 0.008% of S, less than or equal to 0.005% of N and less than or equal to 0.005% of O. A production method comprises the following steps of: molten iron desulphurization, converter smelting and blank casting; heating of the cast blank; rough rolling; finish rolling; laminar cooling; reeling; acid pickling and cold rolling; annealing; flattening; finishing and shearing; heating in protective atmosphere; moulding; quenching; and low-temperature tempering for later use. According to the thermoforming steel disclosed by the invention, the tensile strength is greater than 1,700MPa, and the yield ratio is not over 0.70; when used for manufacturing structural parts and safety parts of an automobile, the thermoforming steel not only can reduce the body weight of the automobile, but also can realize yield deformation in the case of automobile accidents to absorb energy and impact force; and therefore, the thermoforming steel is not broken immediately, and the safety of a driver and passengers is effectively protected.

The invention relates to an expressway vehicle monitoring system based on a wireless network communication technology, and the system comprises three parts, namely a vehicle-mounted terminal, a relay station and a vehicle monitoring information center. The expressway vehicle monitoring system is characterized by achieving functions of management, query and storage of information such as position, speed, track, front and back distances and the like of vehicles with the vehicle-mounted terminal of the system, wherein the vehicle traveling information can be displayed on a plurality of big screens at the vehicle monitoring information center; the system transmits traffic information to an expressway management department in a wireless digital transmission mode; and whether a corresponding vehicle violates the regulation, whether the vehicle has the tends to make other vehicles in danger and other security information are judged according to related driving safety regulations, furthermore, a driving promotion or accident alarm is transmitted in wireless digital transmission mode and broadcasted in voice by the management department to a driver of the vehicle violating the regulation. According to the invention, the vehicle speed is effectively monitored and beneficial promotion information is transmitted to a driver, so that the expressway accident rate can be reduced effectively.

This invention comprises a warning device that is intended to assist in the prevention of automobile accidents that result from drivers moving into an intersection where another driver is already moving through the intersection. A sensor, that can detect the movement of other vehicles directly in front of the host vehicle is utilized, with a warning system that actuates if the host vehicle begins to move forward, while other vehicle traffic from another direction is concurrently moving in front of the host vehicle.

The provisioning of enhanced 911 service in a mobile communications network is supplemented to include the capability of identifying other mobile stations in close proximity to a mobile station placing a 911 call. This capability may then be used to aid in the identification of witnesses to a crime, car accident, and the like. Constantly updated location information for mobile stations in communication with a switching center is maintained in a database that can be accessed by PSAP agents on an “as needed” basis. In particular, a PSAP agent can submit a search request, using time / date and geographic location information to determine the identity of all mobile stations in a predetermined “radius” associated with a 911 caller.

The invention discloses an automobile anti-theft system, which comprises a first camera module, an image processing and recognizing module, a control module, a storage module, a remotely-controlled sensing module and an automobile door lock control module. Compared with the prior art, the system has the advantages that face image recognition authentication is needed after an automobile key remote control unlocking signal is detected, and an automobile door can only be opened once the authorization of an automobile is obtained; otherwise, the automobile door cannot be opened even with an automobile key. Through the technical scheme of the invention, unlocking of the automobile door is realized by means of face image recognition, and the automobile door cannot be unlocked even with the automobile key when a pre-stored face image template is unmatched, thereby effectively preventing the automobile or valuables in the automobile from being stolen after the automobile key is stolen.

The invention discloses a buffering anti-collision guardrail on an expressway. The guardrail comprises a guardrail plate, a connection vertical column, a connection buffering tray, a reinforcing vertical column, a reinforcing buffering tray and a built-in steel plate, wherein the guardrail plate consists of an outer layer pipe plate, an inner layer pipe plate body, a steel plate clamping groove pipe body and a supporting buffer column; three layers of buffering structures are formed in the guardrail, the first layer is a three-layer pressure-reducing and buffering honeycomb, the second layer is a wave-shaped built-in steel plate manufactured in the pressure-reducing and buffering honeycomb, and the third layer is a connection buffering tray or a reinforcing buffering tray arranged between the guardrail and the vertical columns. The strength, toughness and bounciness of the guardrail are enhanced; the guard rail is connected with the vertical column elastically, so that the buffering anti-collision guardrail has high buffering capacity, bounciness, elasticity and impact resistance, phenomena that automobile accidents occur, and loss is caused by the automobile accidents can be effectively avoided; and the guardrail has the advantages of long service life and low using cost.

An interactive driver's educational video game is utilized on a game system. The game comprises a game machine main body and at least one recording medium for storing program data therein. The game machine main body comprises at least one CPU, at least one bus and components connected thereto, at least one graphics data producing processor, at least one interface circuit, a main memory, a ROM, at least one expanding circuit, at least one parallel port / serial port, at least one drawing sound processor, at least one buffer, and at least one decoder. The game machine is appointed to be connected to a visual display monitor. The interactive driver's educational video game is stored on a medium. The interactive driver's educational video game comprises a player number entry means, player vehicle position means, player assignment means, variable insert means, and distance / destination means. Advantageously, the interactive driver's educational video game is used to educate drivers; especially inexperienced drivers and elderly drivers, on how to react to various driving situations in order to prevent automobile accidents and save lives.

A method for analyzing and comparing data from various sources, extracting data from the various sources, converting the data into a particular format, and using that data to generate data records, data documents, and / or reports to assist in isolating medical expenses incurred as a result of automobile accidents and further processing the data to identify whether or not potential third parties may be liable / responsible for the medical expenses incurred from the specific automobile accident.

The present invention is a safety system that prevents the use of certain Smartphone functions and replace the blocked functions with alternative ways to communicate while in a car. These functions include text, voice (manually dialing to make calls) and internet. Smartphone includes any mobile phone or portable communication device that allows software applications to be downloaded and run on its operating system. The system uses a local RF transmitter located and mounted in the car to send a signal that can be detected by one or all of the Smartphone's in the car. The Smartphone's, which have downloaded the application, will decode the RF signal and disable and / or activate certain functions of the Smartphone. Which functions to disable and / or activate are previously chosen by a user of the downloaded application. By use of this system, young drivers, but not limited to, will not be distracted while driving, and thus forced to pay attention to their surroundings. Therefore automobile accidents will be reduced.

The invention relates to a dynamic overtaking track generation system based on vehicle-to-vehicle communication. The system comprises a data storage unit, wherein the signal input end of the data storage unit is connected with a vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit, a vehicle speed acquisition unit and a vehicle-mounted GPS, the signal output end of the data storage unit is connected with the input end of an information processing unit, the output end of the information processing unit is connected with the input end of a track generation unit used for generating track information, the output end of the track generation unit is connected with the input end of a track display unit used for displaying an overtaking track, and the track generation unit is in two-way communication with the data storage unit. The invention further discloses a generation method of the dynamic overtaking track generation system based on vehicle-to-vehicle communication. According to the dynamic overtaking track generation system based on vehicle-to-vehicle communication and the generation method of the dynamic overtaking track generation system based on vehicle-to-vehicle communication, the newest track angle between every two adjacent vehicles, and the longitude and latitude coordinates and the vehicle speed information of every two adjacent vehicles can be continuously obtained through a vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit, and the system is good in real-time performance; when overtaking happens, it can be avoided that because a plurality of high-speed running vehicles overtake at the same time, vehicle accidents happen, influences caused by various environmental conditions in the vehicle running process can be avoided, and it is guaranteed that the vehicles run safely at a high speed.

The invention relates to an intelligent automobile data recorder and a CRM (customer relationship management) cloud service system. The intelligent automobile data recorder comprises a micro camera, a GPS (global positioning system) module, a mobile communication module, a storage and a CPU (central processing unit) chip. The micro camera is used for shooting videos in real time to record conditions around automobiles; the GPS module is used for recording geographic positions and driving information of the videos shot by the micro camera; the mobile communication module is used for uploading an authorized video shot by the micro camera in a certain time slot and information recorded by the GPS module in the time slot to a CRM cloud service platform through a wireless communication network. The storage is used for storing data. The CPU chip is connected with the micro camera, the GPS module, the mobile communication module and the storage, and is used for packaging the videos and the information recorded by the GPS module and storing the videos and the information into the storage. The intelligent automobile data recorder and the CRM cloud service system have the advantages that sharing of interested parties on the videos can be realized through the CRM cloud service platform, and follow-up services as needed can be also provided for the automobiles or drivers in case of automobile accidents.

The invention discloses an active anticollision device of a vehicle and a calculating method of an anticollision distance. The device comprises a vehicle-mounted radar system, a self-vehicle sensor, an executing mechanism and a central control system, wherein the self-vehicle sensor and the vehicle-mounted radar system are connected with the central control system, and the central control system is connected with the executing mechanism connected with a self-vehicle; the CPU of the central control system receives each data of the sensor to judge a safe state and give out a necessary anticollision instruction. Through the active safe anticollision device and the method thereof, the safe state to which the self-vehicle belongs can be judged through the real-time data collected by a vehicle-mounted radar and a self-vehicle sensing system, and the occurrence of a vehicle accident can be effectively avoided under the circumstance that the mind state of a driver is bad or the driver does not pay attention to driving.

A system detects whether an automobile was involved in an accident. The system receives sensor data detecting motion of the automobile, for example, acceleration or location of the automobile. The system aggregates features describing the impact event including contextual features, for example, type of roadway, speed limit, and points of interest near the location of impact and event features, for example, force of impact, distance travelled since impact, speed before the impact, and so on. The system provides the features as input to a machine-learned model. The system determines using the machine-learned model whether the automobile was involved in an accident. The system may provide sensor data describing the impact to a neural network to generate feature vectors describing the sensor data. The system uses the feature vector for determining whether an impact occurred.

The present invention is a safety system that prevents the use of certain Smartphone functions and replace the blocked functions with alternative ways to communicate while in a car. These functions include text, voice (manually dialing to make calls) and internet. Smartphone includes any mobile phone or portable communication device that allows software applications to be downloaded and run on its operating system. The system uses a local RF transmitter located and mounted in the car to send a signal that can be detected by one or all of the Smartphone's in the car. The Smartphone's, which have downloaded the application, will decode the RF signal and disable and / or activate certain functions of the Smartphone. Which functions to disable and / or activate are previously chosen by a user of the downloaded application. By use of this system, young drivers, but not limited to, will not be distracted while driving, and thus forced to pay attention to their surroundings. Therefore automobile accidents will be reduced.

The invention discloses a car accident automatic positioning and alarming system. The car accident automatic positioning and alarming system mainly comprises a central processor, a GPS module, a GSM module and an MEMS acceleration sensor, wherein the GPS module, the GSM module and the MEMS acceleration sensor are respectively connected with the central processor. The car accident automatic positioning and alarming system has the advantages that an Atmega128 single-chip microcomputer is adopted as the central processor of the whole system and is connected with the MEMS acceleration sensor, the GPS module and the GSM communication module. The car accident automatic positioning and alarming system can automatically dial an emergency call after a car accident and informs the related department of the accurate position and the time of the car accident, so that a rescue team is dispatched immediately, more time is won to rescue the wounded, and more lives are saved.

The invention discloses an anti-collision alarming type highway guardrail with an automatic restoration function. The anti-collision alarming type highway guardrail comprises a guardrail body and a base, wherein the base comprises a support seat; the guardrail body comprises a transverse anti-collision damping system; the transverse anti-collision damping system comprises an anti-collision plate, a rubber sleeve, a telescopic rod, a slide block and a transverse spring; the outer side of the guardrail body is connected with the outside anti-collision plate through a slide block and a telescopic rod; a vertical wrinkle structure is arranged at the anti-collision plate; a rubber sleeve sleeves the outer side of the anti-collision plate; a plurality of transverse springs are arranged at the inner side of the anti-collision plate and are arranged between the telescopic rods; the number of the telescopic rods is at least two. The anti-collision alarming type highway guardrail has the advantages that the guardrail can be protected, and be automatically restored to the original shape; the restoration cost is reduced, and the safety of vehicles and persons is protected; drivers of other vehicles are reminded of the occurrence of accidents, and shall pay attention, so as to avoid rear-end collision.

The invention discloses a data recording device and system for determining the responsibility of automatic-driving human-automobile accidents and an automobile. The device executes the following steps: when the whole automobile is charged, acquiring one or more of whole automobile data, sensor data and control data and video data emitted by an automatic driving controller in real time, writing theacquired data into an external RAM memory module, writing the data before and after a period of time of the moment into an external Flash memory module from the external RAM memory module when an accident signal occurs or a latch condition is triggered, and uploading the data written in the external Flash memory module to a cloud server through a data uploading module; judging whether a data reading module is authorized, if yes, allowing the data reading module to read the data in the external Flash memory module, and otherwise, forbidding the reading of the data in the external Flash memorymodule. According to the device, the system and the automobile, important operation parameters of the automobile with a high-grade automatic driving function can be recorded, and meanwhile, the key and important data can be latched.