Cooperative Vehicle Video Sharing for Traffic Event Evidence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traffic-related mishaps often result in inaccurate or biased accounts due to the trauma experienced by involved individuals and witnesses, making it challenging to obtain reliable information for insurance claims or police reports.
Innovation Solution
A system of vehicles and intelligent roadside infrastructure elements that form a video sharing group upon detecting a trigger condition, capturing and sharing video recordings of traffic events to provide objective and accurate evidence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If video recording systems are installed in vehicles to capture objective evidence of traffic events, then the accuracy and reliability of traffic event information is improved, but the device complexity and cost of the vehicle system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines video recording capabilities, trigger condition detection, and automated evidence sharing into an integrated system that leverages existing vehicle infrastructure. Multiple vehicles and roadside infrastructure elements are merged into a cooperative video sharing network, where resources are pooled to achieve reliable traffic event documentation without requiring every vehicle to be fully independent.
Solution Approach 2:
The video recording system is designed to serve multiple functions: capturing traffic events for insurance claims, providing police reports, and enabling cooperative verification across multiple vehicles. The same infrastructure serves both safety monitoring and evidence collection purposes, reducing overall system complexity through multi-functionality.
2Reliability
If multiple vehicles and infrastructure elements form a video sharing group to capture traffic events, then the reliability of evidence is improved, but the communication and coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces standardized communication protocols and automated trigger condition detection as intermediaries that mediate between multiple vehicles and infrastructure elements. These intermediaries handle the complex coordination tasks, allowing individual components to remain relatively simple while achieving reliable cooperative evidence collection through standardized interfaces.
3Speed
If the system automatically forms video sharing groups upon detecting trigger conditions, then the response time for capturing traffic events is improved, but the automation level and system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring communication channels and establishing detection thresholds before traffic events occur. Trigger conditions are predetermined, and the automated response activates pre-prepared video sharing groups, enabling rapid response without requiring complex real-time decision-making during the actual traffic event.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods pertaining to a group of vehicles that cooperatively provide information about a traffic event. In an example embodiment, a method executed by a first processor in a first vehicle may involve detecting a trigger condition that portends a traffic event. The first vehicle may form a video sharing group with one or more other vehicles. At least one vehicle of the video sharing group may capture a video recording of the traffic event and share the video recording with members of the video sharing group. The video recording may contain information that is useable for various purposes. In an example scenario, a reporting vehicle of the video sharing group may transmit the video recording to a server computer that is configured to allow for further operations such as, for example, initiating an insurance procedure and/or filing a police report.