Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
  • G07C5/08—Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
  • G07C5/0841—Registering performance data
  • G07C5/085—Registering performance data using electronic data carriers
  • G07C5/0858—Registering performance data using electronic data carriers wherein the data carrier is removable
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
  • G07C5/008—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles communicating information to a remotely located station
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C5/00—Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
  • G07C5/08—Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
  • G07C5/0841—Registering performance data
  • G07C5/0875—Registering performance data using magnetic data carriers
  • G07C5/0883—Registering performance data using magnetic data carriers wherein the data carrier is removable

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for assisting the driving with registration of the speed of road vehicles on their course, by associating a slideshow or video type of imagery; the present invention extends its functionality in the field of speed regulation.
• the device according to the invention is intended in priority to provide proof by the driver, the speed of his vehicle when all his movements and therefore more particularly to a place where the subject of a dispute.
• the device bringing the images of completed routes, with dates and times, finds the most variety.
• the invention relates to the field of transport and security. It is intended for road professionals and private individuals, Light and Heavy Vehicles, new drivers and more experienced wishing to move with confidence.
• the device is intended to be produced industrially to equip the vehicles original, or as a complementary accessory.
• the device according to the invention will make it possible to memorize for visualization on demand, journeys made with information speed relative to its position.
• the localization is done by imagery; the device controls the keying in the captured image facing the road, following essential information: date, hour-minute-second, total or partial mileage, instantaneous speed, sense sounds ie if the speed is increasing or decreasing, and the threshold level crossed.
• the threshold level Even if digital stores can record a non-stop road week with a capacity of 120 gigabytes, or about ten thousand kilometers, for reasons of cost of realization it is better to save memory capacity for video, and one can be satisfied with images established at different thresholds programmable; these are initially in the number of sixteen, and positioned at the following speeds in km / h: 0, 30, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, x ..
• the user is informed according to the operating parameters chosen, stealthily or permanently, on the one hand visually a head-high projection of the instantaneous speed, the last threshold crossed and its meaning, on the other hand audibly by beeps programmable in frequency and volume according to the bearings; the crossing warning of characteristic thresholds constitutes a new aid to driving by allowing to engage manually or automatically the existing cruise control vehicle or automatically if it is associated with the device.
• the crossing of the threshold 50 km / h controls the regulation at this speed, regulation immediately inhibited by an action on the brake, accelerator or manual recovery of the device; another example: the vehicle reaching the speed and threshold of 130 km / h, the device tells the driver as described above, he wishes and controls the regulation except excessive pressure on the accelerator or other inhibitory parameter.
• the device is equipped with a control keypad that allows the user to ban temporarily and instantly, automaticity programmed on a threshold; example: the vehicle is driving 130 and finds a zone limited to 90, an action on the key 90, allows to regulate to 90 km / h as soon as this speed will be reached.
• the user can manually request the device at any time by forcing the image capture command, single or in burst mode,
• the image capture can also be ordered by any accessory embedded air-bag system, change-over detector, alarm volumetric or when soliciting a multimedia embedded.
• the device integrates its information permanently.
• the positioning of the cameras on the vehicle and their number are independent of the device itself.
• the device can use several infrared or no..
• the device can be partially or totally integrated with the on-board computer or one of its peripherals.
• the number of settable stages can change according to the needs at the down for greater autonomy with the same storage capacity, or up for better accuracy.
• the device in a given version can only analyze a number of levels.
• the video storage stage is external to the device and / or it is equipped several cameras.
• the storage of the imagery is done according to economically most suitable media available on the market: mass memory, DVDRW .
• the threshold keypad allows to directly display the speed at which the user wishes to roll, the regulator then making it possible to reach and maintain that speed.
• the image quality of the imagery is directly and easily adjustable by the user who can thus pass from the standard quality, fixed to the setting voltage, to a photo quality.
• the device is connected to the embedded multimedia.
• the device puts at its provision information and triggers his order.
• Images are sent in automatic mode by embedded devices or in remote polling mode.
• the image capture can then be entrusted alternately asymmetrically to a second cockpit camera and the images made, for example every second (facing the road - cabin) sent via a network mobile telephony conference to back it up on a server and have them live on a selected and adapted terminal. It is thus possible to follow the route made with a vehicle stolen without action at the time of the flight, it is sufficient to interrogate the device to visualize the chosen route.
• Remote control actions can also be sent (vehicle stop for example).
• the device is adaptable in the maritime and aeronautical fields.

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