Driving Analysis Server Event Data Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current telematics systems lack an effective method to analyze driving events and calculate driver scores based on comprehensive data, including image, video, and object proximity data, which is necessary for identifying high-risk or unsafe driving behaviors and external factors contributing to these events.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising computing devices within vehicles and a driving analysis server that collects and analyzes vehicle operational data, image data, video data, and object proximity data to identify driving events and determine their causes, adjusting driver scores accordingly by comparing data metrics to thresholds and considering external factors such as road conditions and vehicle malfunctions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If telematics systems collect and analyze multiple data sources (image, video, proximity data) to improve driving event analysis accuracy, then the measurement precision and reliability of driver behavior assessment is improved, but the device complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving event analysis accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments driving event analysis into multiple independent data sources (image data from cameras, video data from recording devices, object proximity data from sensors) that are collected and processed separately before being integrated for comprehensive analysis. This segmentation allows each data type to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The telematics system is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle diverse data types (image, video, proximity) through a unified analysis framework. The system can perform multiple functions including real-time monitoring, historical analysis, and various types of driving event detection using the same core processing architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If comprehensive data collection from multiple sources is implemented to identify external factors contributing to driving events, then the reliability of cause determination is improved, but the loss of time for data processing and analysis increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecause determination accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously collecting and pre-processing data from multiple sources (cameras, sensors, video recorders) before driving events occur. Data is organized, validated, and prepared in advance so that when a driving event is detected, the analysis can quickly access pre-processed information from relevant time windows, reducing actual event analysis time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs self-service mechanisms through automated data correlation and analysis algorithms that independently process multiple data sources without requiring manual intervention. The system automatically identifies relevant data, correlates timestamps, determines causality, and generates analysis results, minimizing human time investment while maintaining high reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10636291B1Driving event data analysis
Publication Date: 2020.04.28 ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
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AI summary

A driving analysis server may be configured to receive vehicle operation data from vehicle sensors, and may use the data to identify a potentially high-risk or unsafe driving event by the vehicle. The driving analysis server also may receive corresponding image data, video, or object proximity data from the vehicle or one or more other data sources, and may use the image, video, or proximity data to analyze the potentially high-risk or unsafe driving event. A driver score for the vehicle or driver may be calculated or adjusted based on the analysis of the data and the determination of one or more causes of the driving event.