EP0947963A1 - Système automatique pour enregistrer les évènements précédant et/ou suivant un évènement typique dans lequel un véhicule est impliqué - Google Patents

Système automatique pour enregistrer les évènements précédant et/ou suivant un évènement typique dans lequel un véhicule est impliqué Download PDF

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EP0947963A1
EP0947963A1 EP99201011A EP99201011A EP0947963A1 EP 0947963 A1 EP0947963 A1 EP 0947963A1 EP 99201011 A EP99201011 A EP 99201011A EP 99201011 A EP99201011 A EP 99201011A EP 0947963 A1 EP0947963 A1 EP 0947963A1
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Marzia Sarti
Arianna Sarti
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Cuccuru Emanuele
Cuccuru Massimo
Cuccuru Vittorio
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  • the present invention relates to an automatic recording system of events that precede or follow a certain event selected among a number of events definable as typical, usually an auto vehicle impact or collision or the triggering of the car alarm, and having altogether a "black box" function.
  • Compulsory car insurance policies represent a huge market, though insurance companies lament it being a "sufferent" one and annually seek premium increments significantly higher than the general nation rate.
  • the expert has clear limits in contrasting the offered representation of the accident and of its effects in terms of damages to vehicles and goods and/or of injuries to people.
  • the system of the invention involves the installation on the vehicle of a relatively small and self contained apparatus, that may be easily mounted on board, in a functionally strategic position.
  • the apparatus contains functional parts of a video camcorder and optionally also of audio recorder and may be seen as constituting a sort of a "black-box".
  • the recorded information may be downloaded, duplicated, decrypted and eventually played-back only through appropriate decoding, decompressing and processing means of the recorded data that are strictly proprietary and securely held only by an authorized system operator (for a pool of insurance companies, if not by the insurance company itself), in order to check and/or verify the testified accounts of the accident.
  • the system allows for a real and certified verification of the dynamics of the accident or of any other predefined typical event, thus contrasting effectively any attempt to represent the accident or the particular event differently for deceitfully alter the responsibilities of the parties involved in order to obtain an undue or a more substantial refund from the insurance company.
  • the device of the invention is installable on the vehicle and may be produced at an acceptable cost, which could be born by both the insured client and the insurance company.
  • the client could be motivated by a discount on the premium that otherwise would have to pay in full in case he refuses installation of the device, whereas the insurance company would benefit from the expected savings deriving from a diffused adoption of such a system which, besides its indubitable effectiveness represents also a daunting deterrent against the temptations of making deceitful claims.
  • the device installed on board of the vehicle comprises at least an analog or preferably a digital (CCD) micro video camera, permanently mounted on the vehicle, outputting a digital data stream of pixels corresponding to a sequence of images, gathered at a certain frame rate; a compressor/encoder circuit of the digital pixel stream into a digital data stream; a memory buffer of said compressed and encoded data, for a temporal sequence composed of a certain number of images scanned in succession, functioning in a FIFO mode (first picture-in-first picture-out), according to which the data relative to an older image are overwritten by the data of a new image; a circuit generating command pulses to start the system to a first frame rate upon starting the engine; and a second circuit generating command pulses to trigger a stop-and-block routine of the image recording system upon the occurrence of a collision; means for unblocking and resetting the recording system through a code or password; a system microprocessor interfaced through a control bus to the circuits and to the means for un
  • the system may be started automatically upon activating an alarm system installed on the vehicle. If the system is started by activating an alarm, the system will record images at a reduced frame rate compared to the frame rate of when the system is started by starting the engine.
  • the start-up of the recording system may be manually commanded by the driver or the conductor in case of need.
  • the self contained module installed on the vehicle contains into an antitamper enclosure the functional sensors and circuits and one or more buffer batteries capable to preserve the recorded data in the memory buffer, which may be a common RAM memory.
  • the module has a transparent window through which the video camera of the module captures the images.
  • the module is preferably installed inside the passenger compartment, for example near the rear window, with the camera objective aimed through the windscreen, thus capturing images of the front part of the passenger compartment and of the space in front of the vehicle through the windscreen.
  • the module may have a normal serial port (rs232) to download the recorded data when it becomes necessary or opportune.
  • rs232 normal serial port
  • the permanent block of any further recording and thereby the preservation of data in an encrypted form relative to a sequence of images immediately preceding an event that has triggered the stop-and-block routine and immediately following such an instant may be determined by the triggering of a collision sensor, for example by the triggering of the same collision sensor that causes the airbag inflation, or by any similar sensor or by one of several sensors whose triggering threshold may be adjusted so to be even lower than the threshold that causes the inflation of the airbag.
  • the system of crypted recording of the images captured by the videocamera at certain frame rate uses as a password or cryptation code an individual code of the module installed on the vehicle. This individual code identifies to the system operator decoding means the insured party and the vehicle on which the apparatus is installed.
  • the system may also include a microphone and a relative circuitry of amplification, analog/digital conversion, compression and coding, to implement a simultaneous recording on a RAM buffer also of an audio sequence, lasting the entire period covered by the stored sequence of images.
  • the video RAM buffer and optionally also the audio RAM buffer have a capacity that allows for the recording of compressed data relative to an adequate number of successive images and of compressed data of a corresponding audio sequence, that follow a specific event that causes the stop-and-block routine of the automatic recording system.
  • the writing of data relative to images and eventually relative to a corresponding audio sequence, in respective buffers organised in the RAM memory, is controlled by a microprocessor and implemented in a First-in-First-out (FIFO) mode for images and audio sequences; when all the locations in the respective buffers are filled (immediately after the system start-up) the incoming new blocks of data are recorded in the position of the relatively "older" blocks of image data and of audio data, overwriting the content with the new data.
  • FIFO First-in-First-out
  • the RAM except during the first start-up instants, eventually following a reset that may be automatically performed upon starting the system, will contain a sequence of a predefined number of images and eventually also a corresponding audio sequence, covering an interval of time that includes a period immediately preceding and a period immediately following the instant of the occurred impact or of any other triggering event.
  • a predefined typical event such as the triggering of a impact sensor-that may be included inside the system's module (eventually in integrated form) or external, or even pre-existing on the vehicle (for example, with eventual adjustments of the trigging threshold, it may be possible to use the signal generated by the impact sensor that is commonly installed on the vehicle for releasing the airbag), the automatic recording system continues to record few more images and eventually also a similarly protracted audio sequence for a correspondingly predefined interval of time and then sets itself in a blocked state, retaining in its memory a series of images and eventually also a corresponding audio sequence covering instants immediately preceding and immediately following the impact.
  • the data so recorded in a nonvolatile manner by virtue of the buffer battery that supplies the system's RAM, may be read and/or downloaded at any subsequent time, by establishing a serial data link to a service computer of the operator (e.g. the insurance company), which, through a dedicated software decrypts, decompresses and eventually displays the stored images and eventually decrypts, decompresses and reproduces the recorded audio sequence.
  • a service computer of the operator e.g. the insurance company
  • the proprietary decrypting software of the operator remains the only means that may unblock the system and render it operative again.
  • the unblocking of the system is effected by the operator, following to the signing of a document that waives any retrospective claim at the date of requesting the unblocking and resetting of the system by the owner of the vehicle.
  • the downloading, decrypting and/or unblocking of the automatic recording system installed on the vehicle by means of a specific command that can be issued exclusively by the operator's computer may be organised through a serial cable connection, by disassembling or extracting the module from its location on board of the vehicle and by bringing it physically to any of the operator's premises equipped with a computer for reading, decrypting and eventually unblocking the system.
  • the installation of the module on board of the vehicle may be organized in a way of including a docking platform fixedly mounted on the vehicle and having adequate connectors, on which a module containing the functional parts of the automatic recording system will be easily installed and disinstalled as needed.
  • the module may be physically retained by the operator (insurance company) as a source of objectively primary proof, and a new module, properly programmed with the identification data, may be given to the client in substitution of the module retained, and so forth according to convenience and practicability.
  • the automatic recording system module may be permanently installed on the vehicle and include a duplicated data storage support in form of an extractable support, for example a Flash-EPROM card or similar nonvolatile mass storage support, which will be written in parallel with the same data that are written on a fixed RAM equipped with a buffer battery to retain the data activated, as a conclusive operation of the blocking routine of the system.
  • a duplicated data storage support in form of an extractable support, for example a Flash-EPROM card or similar nonvolatile mass storage support, which will be written in parallel with the same data that are written on a fixed RAM equipped with a buffer battery to retain the data activated, as a conclusive operation of the blocking routine of the system.
  • the module may contain even a second buffer battery for ensuring the operation of the system during the instants following the predefined trigging event, should the event (collision) interrupt the normal power supply provided by the vehicles battery.
  • the Flash-EPROM card or alternatively a self-supplied SRAM-card with a speed comparable to that of the fixed RAM, or any other equivalent mass storage support constitutes a handy and mobile data storage support (a duplicate of the data stored in the fixed RAM of the module), that may be extracted from the module and easily despatched to the operator for decrypting and inspection of the recorded data (a copy of which remains safely stored in the fixed RAM inside the automatic recording system installed on the vehicle until its eventual unblocking and resetting). Even in this case, it will be possible to obtain a new Flash-EPROM card or SRAM-card in exchange of the one retained by the operator.
  • such a mobile data storage support may also constitute a handy carrier of the unblocking command code for the system when, written by the operator, is reinserted in the specific module on board of the vehicle.
  • Figure 1 schematically shows an architecture of the automatic recording system of the invention.
  • the means for decrypting, reading, decoding and unblocking of the module may be represented by a normal PC equipped with a specific software.
  • Figure 2 shows an alternative embodiment that considers a substantially fixed on board module (black box) furnished with means for writing and reading an extractable Flash-EPROM card (or alternatively a self-powered SRAM-card) usable as a carrier of information (and/or of unblocking commands) to and from the operator's premises.
  • an extractable Flash-EPROM card or alternatively a self-powered SRAM-card
  • Figure 2 shows an alternative embodiment that considers a substantially fixed on board module (black box) furnished with means for writing and reading an extractable Flash-EPROM card (or alternatively a self-powered SRAM-card) usable as a carrier of information (and/or of unblocking commands) to and from the operator's premises.
  • FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the system of invention.
  • an optional audio recording system including a microphone, an audio amplifier, analog/digital conversion circuits and compression and crypting circuitry (i. e. the functional blocks traced inside the dash-line box.)
  • the upper part of the diagram includes the sensors and circuitry that generate reset and start-up commands for the automatic recording system as well as the sensors and circuitry that trigger the routine that stops the recording system after a certain prefixed period of time upon the occurrence of a certain event.
  • Such sensors and circuitry, or parts of them, may be external to the module containing the picture and optionally sound sequences acquisition and recording system, and command signals may reach the functional circuits contained inside the module through connectors that may be organised in a customary way in the docking platform of the module, in case it is of a removable type.
  • a microprocessor commanding the acquisition of images at an appropriate rate and optionally the acquisition of corresponding audio sequences interfaces with a control bus of the system and provides the compression and coding circuitry with the data streams relative to the images produced by a digital micro video-camera (CCD) and the data streams relative to the audio sequences, the code (password) for crypting the digital before recording them in respective memory buffers.
  • CCD digital micro video-camera
  • password for crypting the digital before recording them in respective memory buffers.
  • the individual passwords and/or codes are resident in a ROM (they univocally identify the unit to the operator), while the different scanning and blocking modes for a given typical event are permanently programmed in the EPROM.
  • the compressed and encrypted data may be accessed through a data bus and a download serial port RS232.
  • the functional circuits of the video-camera for pixels data compression and coding and optionally also for converting the audio signals originating from an ambient microphone installed in the module to digital audio data and for effecting a compression and coding to store them in the memory, may be of any type known or commercially available and normally used for these functions.
  • Figure 4 is a flow sheet of the automatic recording system of the invention relative to an embodiment that contemplates the possibility to exploit the functions of the automatic system of the invention also when the vehicle is left parked with an alarm system activated.
  • the rate at which the system acquires the pictures is reduced in respect to the frame rate set when the automatic system is activated by starting the engine.
  • the automatic recording system of the invention may reasonably set the frame rate to about 5 photograms per second, when resetting and starting the system by starting the engine, thus considering an interval of about 4/100 of a second, between successive pictures, whereas if the system is started by activating the car alarm, the frame rate may be adequately reduced to about one picture per second.
  • a video memory buffer of a reasonably low cost may have a capacity of a total number of about 60 pictures. This corresponds to a coverage of about 12 second, if the system is functioning at high frame rate and of about 60 seconds if the system is functioning at the reduced frame rate.
  • the system may be programmed so that the recording will continue, from the instant of sensing an event triggering the blocking of the system, for several seconds, for example for at least two seconds, if the system is in a high frame rate mode or for little less than sixty seconds if the system is in a low frame rate mode.
  • the informative content that is permanently and securely recorded in the data storage support following the blocking of the system will comprise a certain sequence of pictures preceding and following the event that stopped the system.
  • a link established by way of a common cellular telephone, using DTFM coding techniques, may be used to simplify the unblocking of a recording system accidentally jammed and eventually to download the recorded data from the memory buffer of the on-board module to the computer in the premises of the operator.
  • More than one videocamera may be installed in the on board module. Infared cameras and/or orientable mirrors may be also installed.
  • the automatic recording system with "black-box" functions of the invention may also have secondary or different applications.
  • applications like in taxis, buses and trams, on subway carriages, etc.
  • the system may be started and blocked manually by the driver or conductor when the situation may call for it.
  • system may be used to store a complete sequence before blocking it manually or to acquire and permanently store single pictures that may be useful for the identification of individuals.
  • the programming of the system contained in the module installed on board of the vehicle may contemplate that, in the case of a manually commanded acquisition and storage of single pictures, the stored data relative to such images may not be overwritten by the system until a partial unblocking of the relative sectors of the RAM is effected.
  • the normal sequential overwriting of picture data will occur cyclically with the same modality for the remaining sectors of the RAM, marginally reducing the temporal interval covered by the video sequence which will no longer be of a complete number of pictures, but of a reduced number because of the partial block of the sectors containing the data of the single pictures acquired by manual command.
  • the automatic recording system of the invention contained in the on board module may also comprise acquisition circuits of other data useful to the interpretation of the video and optionally also audio recorded event.
  • the system may sample and record digital instantaneous values of the speed of the vehicle, of the state of light switches, of directional light switches, of stop lights, etc.
  • the relevant signals may be coupled to the sampling and acquisition circuitry of the module through multiconductor connectors.
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