510 results about "Driver safety" patented technology

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.

A method for enhancing driver safety through body position monitoring with remote sensors, and furnishing feedback in response to vehicle motion, driver activities, and external driving conditions, wherein the method includes: monitoring and characterizing signals from at least one sensor mounted on the body of a driver; monitoring and characterizing signals from at least one vehicle mounted sensor; determining driver activity based on disambiguating the signals from the driver and vehicle mounted sensors; providing feedback to the driver based on the determined driver activity, vehicle motion, and external driving conditions; and wherein the feedback is employed to modify driver behavior and enhance driver safety.

Systems and methods are disclosed for establishing a mobile network in which each mobile unit, such as a car, becomes a node able to receive and transmit a wide variety of information, including for example, traffic conditions, vehicle mechanical/electrical status, interactive game playing information, streaming audio and video, email, and voice mail. In one aspect, multi-sensor fusion technology is used to determine the best value of a monitored variable, for example, the real time locations of each mobile unit, that may be communicated to others via the network. In addition, a new method of traffic control using real time traffic positioning and density data is disclosed. Further, methods and systems for enhancing driver safety are disclosed. In another aspect, the system may use a unique secure dynamic link allocation system to improve the information transfer from one node (mobile unit) to another and to other networks, such as the Internet.

A safety system determines a correspondence between a vehicle and an upcoming traffic signal, and predicts a state of the traffic signal when the vehicle is expected to reach the signal's location. Based on proximity to the signal and speed of the vehicle, the system provides a warning if it determines that the vehicle is likely to proceed contrary to the signal (e.g., a driver is likely to run a red light). The warning is issued to the vehicle about to illegally enter the intersection, to other nearby vehicles and pedestrians, and to the traffic signal itself.

An integrated vehicle computer system is provided. The features of the integrated vehicle computer system include a video based vehicle/driver security system that delivers immediate incident notification, turn-by-turn GPS navigation, live visual traffic grids with links to live freeway cameras, internet access and mobile wireless hub capability, email, internet music service navigation, internet radio station navigation, and MP3 or digital file library selection. One of potential application of the integrated vehicle computer system is to passage vehicles.

Rideshare cars operate within a network and each includes a car-camera device which allows each car driver to communicate with each other. The car-camera device uses object and facial recognition software to locate objects, people, sounds, QR codes and gestures, inside and outside the car and responds accordingly, providing a corrective action. The car-camera devices perform functions to ensure that both riders and drivers of rideshare services and drivers of car-share services are safe and can communicate with each other, before, during, and after a ride or drive.

A system of increasing the safety of motor sports drivers and safety crews including a driver's safety suit having bodily function monitoring capability and the ability to transmit monitored information to an information processing station. A helmet, to be worn by safety crew members, the helmet having communications capability for communication with an information processing station. The helmet having various safety, comfort, communication and protection elements. A driver's helmet having features that provide safety, comfort, protection and communication capabilities. The system also having triage capability in the event of a track incident to further protect and enhance the safety and well being of a driver involved in an incident.

The invention discloses a monocular vision vehicle distance measuring method based on road and vehicle information. The method can be adopted by a running vehicle on road to automatically measure the distance to the front vehicle according to the device equipped on the running vehicle, so as to realize the purposes of preventing vehicle rear-end collision and reminding drivers of driving safety. Specifically, a camera facing forward is mounted on the front part of the vehicle for collecting the front road and vehicle images; the lane marking line and the front vehicle are detected, and the vehicle license plate is also positioned; the vehicle distance is obtained through the transformation relationship of the lane width and the vehicle distance of the vehicle in the road image, or the vehicle distance is obtained through the transformation relationship of the size information of the license plate and the vehicle distance in the road image, or through the transformation relationship of the character height of the license plate and the vehicle distance in the road image. The invention can accurately measure the distance to the front vehicle, has high instantaneity, high robustness, low hardware cost, is applicable to various types of vehicles and is easy for popularization.

The invention provides a test system of a stimulus information cognition ability value, comprising a stimulus information providing device, a sight tracking device, a feedback data acquisition device, a cognition index value analysis device, a cognition accuracy degree analysis device and a cognition ability value computing device. The stimulus information providing device shows vision and audition stimulus information for a tester; the sight tracking device tracks and records the motion state of eyes of a tester in the process of acquiring and processing the vision stimulus information; the feedback data acquisition device is used for acquiring feedback data input by the tester responding to the stimulus information; the cognition index value analysis device acquires a cognition index value of the tester in the process of processing the vision stimulus information according to the record of the sight tracking device through a visual motion analysis method; the cognition accuracy degree analysis device computes the cognition accuracy degree of the tester according to the content of the feedback data; and the cognition ability value computing device computes obtained standard scores for representing the comprehensive cognition ability of the tester according to the cognition index value and the cognition accuracy degree through a statistic method. The test system can more accurately record the cognition process of the tester and the difference of the cognition ability among testers and can also be widely applied in the fields of talent selection, job placement, learning ability diagnosis, advertising effect, safety training of drivers, and the like.

The invention discloses a driving safety monitoring system based on face orientation and visual focus, which comprises a vision sensor and an intelligent processor. The intelligent processor comprises an image acquisition module, a complexion area detection module, an edge extraction module, an eye detection module, a face orientation analysis module and a driver safety driving judgment module, wherein the complexion area detection module is used for converting an RGB color space into a YCrCb color space and detecting a complexion area; the edge extraction module is used for adopting a Canny operator to carry out edge extraction so as to acquire a head image outline; the eye detection module is used for carrying out Hough conversion for the marginalized face and positioning eyes; the face orientation analysis module is used for determining a mouth area, positioning the mouth, calculating left and right areas of the face respectively by using the eyes and the mouth as reference, and calculating the ratio of the left and right areas of the face; and the driver safety driving judgment module is used for judging an unsafe driving state if the calculated ratio of the left and right areas of the current face is out of a preset interval according to the preset interval of the ratio of the left and right areas of the face, and sending out an alarm command. The driving safety monitoring system has strong capacity of resisting disturbance and high accuracy.

A system for warning a driver based on the road curvature consisting of multiple integrated cameras to acquire the images of different scales simultaneously, a camera controller to configure the cameras based on the vehicle speed and visibility criteria, a processor to analyze the multi-scale images to construct the mosaic, and warning generation subsystem to warn the driver about the safety speed based on the comparison of the mosaic with the curvature templates.

The invention discloses a remote vehicle driving control device which comprises a driving operation unit and a remote console. The driving operation unit comprises an execution mechanism and an execution control unit, wherein the execution control unit is used for controlling the execution mechanism installed in the controlled vehicle, and operating the vehicle through the execution unit. The controlled vehicle acquires the front video and position information during running; the execution control unit sends the information to the remote console; an operator can operate a driving simulation operation mechanism according to the video and position information; the operation information of the driving simulation operation mechanism is acquired by the acquisition unit and sent to the execution control unit by a simulation control unit; and the execution control unit controls the execution mechanism to perform corresponding operation on the controlled vehicle so as to realize remote control on the vehicle driving. According to the invention, a driver does not need to directly drive the vehicle in the cab, and the controlled vehicle can finish task in dangerous environment, thereby effectively guaranteeing the driver safety, improving the working efficiency and reducing the working strength.

Disclosed is a vehicle driver safety device that serves the purpose of helping and encouraging drivers to drive attentively and with alertness with a degree of vehicle control that adapts to driver experience, vehicle speed and road conditions. Should the unsafe habits persist the system warns nearby cars and officials and records the incidents for review by a parent or mentor to serve as a deterrent. The new and unique wheel watcher utilizes a steering wheel with sensor arrays that determine the number and position of the drivers hands on the wheel, a vehicle speed and road condition sensor to judge the degree of control that is appropriate, a clock/timer to determine the length a unsafe practice persists and a driver identification device that affects the degree of safety practices that are encouraged by the system. An internal alarm is provided to alert the driver to an unsafe condition and indicators such as lights grouped with the sensors alert the driver to the safe positions for their hands that will satisfy the system that the vehicle is under adequate control.

The invention relates to the field of vehicle safety driving control, and particularly relates to a driving behavior analysis system and analysis method. The system comprises a driver fatigue tester which acquires the current fatigue value of a driver, a vehicle driving state tester which acquires the current driving behavior value of a driving vehicle, a vehicle acceleration tester which acquires an acceleration value in the vehicle driving process, a calculator which calculates the driving behavior score of the driver according to the current fatigue value, the current driving behavior value and the acceleration value, and a remote server which receives and stores the driving behavior score, and reminds the driver to avoid fatigue driving or violation driving when the driving behavior score is low. The remote server receives and stores the driving behavior score, and stores each time of driving behavior score record of the driver. The analysis system and the analysis method are conducive to safe driving of the driver.

There is provided an impact protection structure for providing impact energy absorption at a region substantially between a first transverse strengthening member and a second substantially upright strengthening member of a road vehicle. In operation, the first and second members are disposed substantially mutually perpendicularly. The impact protection structure comprises an energy absorbing block arrangement and a cover arrangement for maintaining the absorbing block arrangement substantially in position during impact. In operation, the impact protection structure is susceptible to reducing lateral damage to the road vehicle in crash or impact situations, thereby potentially increasing passenger and driver safety.

The invention discloses a method for testing driver fatigue based on monocular vision. The method achieves the purpose reminding the driver of safe driving through monitoring the working state of a driver by means of detection and tracking of a human face, detection and positioning of human eyes and identification of eye states. The method is specially characterized in that a camera facing towards the face of the driver is installed above a dashboard in a cab, the lens of the camera is peripherally provided with infrared LED illuminating light sources; the facial images of the driver are acquired by using the camera, every acquired frame image is subjected to the detection and tracking of human faces, and the detection and positioning of human eyes are performed in a human face area resulting from the detection, the opening and closing states of human eyes are identified by means of left/right eye areas, and finally, fatigue detection is accomplished through the detection state of continuous frames. The method disclosed in the invention can achieve the accurate prompt of driver fatigue, and has the advantages of no disturbance to driver, high real-time property, high robustness, low hardware cost and easiness in popularization.

A driver safety system includes traffic signals communicating with a municipal controller via a first network and user devices communicating with a third party controller via a second network. Communications from the first network are provided to the second network via a repeater server providing one-way communications to avoid the possibility of hacking devices on the first network.

The invention provides a robot intelligent coach assisted driving method and a system thereof. According to the method, the technology of vehicle detection, vehicle positioning and voice broadcast is introduced, through collecting the contour model and tire model of a driving vehicle and the geometric model of a driving field, the position relation among the models is analyzed in real time, a driver is reminded to make appropriate action at an appropriate time, and an intelligent auxiliary effect is achieved. The robot intelligent coach assisted driving system has universality and is widely applied to various vehicle driving situations, the driver is intelligent assisted operate safely, and the driving skill of the driver is rapidly improved.