JP2012118681A - Warning system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel system capable of giving a warning (information) on operation omission etc. noticed by a driver of a surrounding vehicle etc. with a low cost configuration.SOLUTION: In an information providing vehicle 1, the driver etc. finds a warning object vehicle which needs to be warned, a number identifying section 12 recognizes vehicle identification information of a warning object vehicle 2, and the driver etc. performs operation setting for necessary warning information with an information inputting section 13, therefore, a transmitting section 14 radio-transmits the information to a managing device 3. In the managing device 3, based on the radio transmission information received by a receiving section 31, a management processing section 32 determines a corresponding registration destination from a database section 33 based on the vehicle identification information of the radio transmission information, and a transmitting section 34 radio-transmits to transfer the received warning information to the registration destination.

Description

  The present invention relates to an alert received by a contact registered in a management device of an information receiving vehicle that travels around an information providing vehicle via a management device outside the vehicle, through the alert information transmitted from the information providing vehicle. About the system.

  Conventionally, various devices have been proposed for notifying passengers such as in-car drivers of forgetting to turn off their headlights or emergency lights, forgetting to wear seat belts, etc. (for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2008-137556 A

  When the vehicle is provided with the forgetting operation notification device described in Patent Document 1, the number of necessary parts such as sensors increases in proportion to the number of forgotten operations to be reported, leading to an increase in the cost of the vehicle. Therefore, the types of forgotten operations that can be reported are limited. For example, the driver of the surrounding vehicle (following vehicle or oncoming vehicle) is aware of it, but the driver of the applicable vehicle is not aware of it. Traveling in a high city without switching to low beam in a large amount of city, running without lighting due to forgetting to light or disconnection, etc. are not subject to notification. In addition, forgetting to turn off (return) the blinker is not notified because it is not easy to determine. Furthermore, it is not possible to notify a driver or the like outside the vehicle when parked or the like that he or she has forgotten to turn off the hazard lamp.

  If the trunk that was forgotten to be closed is opened or the baggage is loosely fixed, the baggage may fall and be scattered on the road, and another vehicle may step on the baggage or hit the baggage. In addition, the high-beam driving that is performed in a casual manner may be dazzling for the driver of the oncoming vehicle. Further, the blinker forgetting to turn off may distract the driver's attention to other vehicles. Also, if the hazard lamp is forgotten to be turned off and left on during parking, there is a possibility that the battery will be discharged.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a novel system capable of alerting (notifying) such as forgetting the operation as described above, which is noticed by a driver of a surrounding vehicle with an inexpensive configuration.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, the alert system according to the present invention includes an alert object registered in the management device via the management device outside the vehicle, with the alert information to the information receiving vehicle transmitted from the information providing vehicle. An alerting system received by a vehicle contact information, wherein the information providing vehicle recognizes vehicle identifying information of the vehicle to be alerted, operating means for operating and setting the alerting information, and at least the vehicle Vehicle-side transmission means for wirelessly transmitting identification information and the alert information to the management apparatus, the management apparatus storing information on the contact address corresponding to the vehicle identification information, and providing the information Receiving means for receiving wireless transmission information from the vehicle, and registration information of the contact information held in the storage means corresponding to the vehicle identification information of the received wireless transmission information. It is characterized by comprising: a discriminating means for discriminating the contact address of the vehicle to be alerted; and a management device side transmitting means for wirelessly transmitting the alert information received by the contact address discriminated by the discriminating means ( Claim 1).

  And the said management apparatus is the said alert received to the said contact address applicable from the said management apparatus side transmission means on the condition that the said vehicle identification information and the said alert information are received from the said some information provision vehicle It is preferable to wirelessly communicate information (claim 2).

  Moreover, it is preferable that the management device further includes a privilege granting unit that issues a privilege to a registered provider of the information providing vehicle based on an information evaluation of a reply from the contact that has received the alert information. (Claim 3).

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a vehicle in which a trunk is forgotten to be closed or a baggage is loosely fixed, a vehicle that is running in a high-beam area in a city with a high traffic volume, no lighting due to forgotten lighting or disconnection Vehicles that are traveling, vehicles that are parked and forgetting to turn off the hazard lamps, etc. are vehicles subject to attention. In addition, vehicles before and after that, oncoming vehicles, and the like are information providing vehicles.

  Then, in the information providing vehicle, the driver or the like finds the attention target vehicle in a state that requires attention, and the recognition means recognizes the vehicle identification information of the attention target vehicle, and the driver or the like is required by the operation means. When the alerting information is set for operation, at least the recognized vehicle identification information and alerting information are wirelessly transmitted by the vehicle-side transmission means to a management device installed at an appropriate location outside the vehicle.

  In the management device, when the reception unit receives the wireless transmission information from the vehicle side transmission unit, the determination unit determines the corresponding registration destination from the storage unit based on the vehicle identification information of the wireless transmission information, and the management device side Based on the registration information of the registration destination (such as the phone number of the mobile terminal of the driver of the vehicle to be watched), the transmission means wirelessly transmits and transmits the alert information received to the registration destination.

  As a result, even if the driver of the vehicle subject to attention forgets to perform an operation, etc. Attention (notification) is given to the driver of the vehicle subject to attention registered as a registration destination, and it is possible to reliably prevent troublesome traveling, battery exhaustion, etc. due to forgetting to operate. And it is not necessary to provide parts, such as a sensor which detects forgetting operation, in the attention object vehicle, and alerting such as forgetting operation can be performed with the cheap structure which reduced the cost.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, on the condition that the alert information having the same content about the attention target vehicle of the same vehicle identification information is provided from the plurality of information providing vehicles to the management apparatus, Since the alert information is transmitted wirelessly, erroneous alert based on so-called mischief information is prevented, and the reliability of alert is improved.

  According to this invention which concerns on Claim 3, a privilege can be issued and provided to the provision destination which provided useful alerting information, and the precision of alerting information improves.

It is explanatory drawing of the whole structure of one Embodiment of the alerting system of this invention. It is a detailed block diagram of each part of FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the alerting information transmitted of FIG.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  The alerting system according to the present embodiment shown in FIG. 1 includes an outline, an information providing vehicle 1, an attention target vehicle 2, a management device 3, and a registered contact address and provision destination described later.

  The information providing vehicle 1 is a vehicle in front of or behind the target vehicle 2 that is traveling, a vehicle in the adjacent lane, a vehicle that passes by the target vehicle 2 (an oncoming vehicle), or near or close to the vehicle 2 that is parked. In many cases, there are a plurality of parked vehicles, but in order to simplify the explanation, FIG. 1 shows a single succeeding vehicle.

  The attention target vehicle 2 is a vehicle or a parked vehicle that runs around the information providing vehicle 1 (front and rear, left and right), and at least a registration number (hereinafter referred to as a vehicle number) of the number plate 2a is used as vehicle identification information of the present invention. It is registered in the management device 3. Note that the vehicle identification information of the present invention may include information such as vehicle color and vehicle type that can identify the vehicle. Also, in practice, one vehicle becomes the information providing vehicle 1 when there is one vehicle, and becomes the vehicle to be alerted 2 when there is another vehicle.

  The management device 3 is a server device installed at a predetermined point on the road side, for example, and exchanges information with the information providing vehicle 1 and the registered contact and provision destinations by wireless communication. The wireless communication may use a communication network dedicated to this service, but in consideration of practicality and the like, in the present embodiment, the wireless communication is performed using a mobile phone network.

  In the case of the present embodiment using the mobile phone network, the recognition means, operation means, vehicle-side transmission means, etc. of the present invention provided in the information providing vehicle 1 are passengers such as drivers who are riding on the information providing vehicle 1. Mobile terminal (mobile phone). The registered contact information of the present invention is a portable terminal of an occupant such as a driver who is in the caution target vehicle 2.

  FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the information providing vehicle 1, the attention target vehicle 2, and the management device 3. The information providing vehicle 1 has a configuration surrounded by a broken line in FIG. A camera 11 that captures the vehicle number of the attention object vehicle 2 and a number recognition unit that recognizes the vehicle number of the attention object vehicle 2 by performing known number recognition image processing on the captured image of the camera 11 (recognition means of the present invention) 12) The alert information of the present invention indicating the forgetting to close the trunk of the car 2 to be warned, loosening of luggage, high beam traveling, no-light traveling, forgetting to turn off the hazard lamp, etc. An information input unit (operation means of the present invention) 13 for operating and inputting the vehicle color and vehicle type information forming the vehicle recognition information, and the vehicle number and information input unit 1 of the number recognition unit 12 And 14 (vehicle-side transmission unit of the present invention) transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting the input information to the management apparatus 3 is provided is formed. The number recognition unit 12, the information input unit 13, and the like are realized by incorporating the information providing processing software of the present system into the mobile terminal with the camera and executing it with the microcomputer.

  And when the driver of the information providing vehicle 1 while traveling or parked has forgotten to close the trunk or loosely fixed luggage, a vehicle traveling in a high-traffic area with high traffic, Software for the information provision processing of this system for mobile terminals such as vehicles that are driving without lights due to forgetting or disconnection, vehicles that are parked and forgetting to turn off hazard lamps, etc. , And the camera 11 shoots the license plate 2a of the vehicle 2 to be alerted, and further operates the information input unit 13 to input information such as the alert content message, the vehicle color of the alert vehicle 2 and the vehicle type. Then, the photographed image of the camera 11 is processed by the number identification unit 12 to recognize the vehicle number, and the vehicle number, vehicle color, vehicle type, and other information formed by the vehicle Identification information and alert information alerting the contents of messages operation input is wirelessly transmitted via the mobile telephone network to the management device 3 of the registered address from the transmission unit 14 (or phone number).

  The management device 3 is a so-called server device, and vehicle identification information and alert information from each information providing vehicle 1 arrives at the reception unit (reception means of the present invention) 31, and the management processing of the microcomputer configuration from the reception unit 31 Transferred to the unit 32. The management processing unit 32 forms the discrimination means of the present invention.

  Further, the management device 3 includes a database unit 33 formed by a large-capacity storage unit such as a hard disk device, and the database unit 33 stores contact information corresponding to the vehicle identification information (this embodiment) for each registered vehicle. In the case of a form, an address (or telephone number) is held so as to be writable.

  Then, the management processing unit 32 reads out the contact information corresponding to the received vehicle identification information from the database unit 33, and sends the address (or telephone number) of the information and the received alert information to the transmission unit (management of the present invention). Device-side transmission means) 34, and the alerting information is transferred from the transmission unit 34 to the contact by wireless transmission via the mobile phone network.

  In the case of the present embodiment, the contact information is a portable terminal of an occupant such as a driver who is driving the caution target vehicle 2, and as shown in FIG. Section 22 is formed, and alert information from the management apparatus 3 is received by the receiver 21 and displayed on the liquid crystal screen as the informing section 22 to alert the registered contact driver etc. to forget to operate, etc. It is. In this case, even if the caution target vehicle 2 is parked and the driver or the like is away from the vehicle, the driver or the like is surely alerted such as forgetting to turn off the hazard lamp.

  Therefore, in the case of the present embodiment, even if the driver of the vehicle 2 to be alerted forgets to perform an operation or the like, the driver of the information providing vehicle 1 that travels in the front / rear, left and right of the vehicle 2 or passes each other As to what is noticed, a driver is alerted (notified) to the driver or the like of the vehicle 2 to be registered registered as a registration destination in the management device 3, and it is possible to reliably prevent annoying traveling, battery exhaustion, etc. due to forgetting to operate. And, it is not necessary to provide parts such as sensors for detecting forgotten operation in the vehicle 2 to be alerted, and an entirely new alerting system that has been able to alert forgetting to operate with an inexpensive configuration with reduced cost. Can be provided.

  When the information providing vehicle 1 in FIG. 1 becomes a caution target vehicle and the caution target vehicle 2 becomes an information providing vehicle, a mobile terminal such as a driver of the caution target vehicle 2 uses a camera 23, The identification unit 24, the information input unit 25, and the transmission unit 26 are formed, and the mobile terminal such as the driver of the information providing vehicle 1 forms the reception unit 15 and the notification unit 16 in the figure, and communication of broken arrows is performed. Thus, the same effect as described above can be obtained.

  By the way, when improving the reliability of alerting by preventing erroneous alerting based on so-called mischief information, the management processing unit 32 of the management device 3 uses the same vehicle identification information and alerting information from a plurality of information providing vehicles. On the condition that the alert information received by the corresponding contact is transmitted via the transmitter 34 by radio. More specifically, the management processing unit 32 repeatedly forms, for example, a three-dimensional graph as shown in FIG. 3 based on the received contents for a predetermined time (for example, 24 hours) with a time shift. This graph shows the alert contents received on the x-axis, the y-axis the reception time (0-24 o'clock), the z-axis the number of receptions (number of notifications). For example, the x-axis Among each information, the vehicle identification information and the alert information having the same contents received from the plurality of information providing vehicles 2 as the alert information in which the number of receptions on the y-axis is equal to or greater than the threshold value within the set elapsed time of the z-axis. And wirelessly transmit the alert information of the selected content to the corresponding contact. In this way, it is possible to contact only the alert information with high reliability of the number of times received within the expected time for the alert content, and the reliability is significantly improved.

  Next, in order to increase the alert information to be reported by increasing the number of vehicles participating in this system, as shown in FIG. 1, the management device 2 includes a privilege grant unit (privilege grant means of the present invention) 35, Information that has earned points above a certain point, for example, using a point system based on the information evaluation of the reply from the contact that received the alert information (for example, a three-stage evaluation of very useful, useful, or unhelpful) Benefits are provided to registered destinations of the providing vehicle 1 (the information about the destinations is, for example, mailing destination information registered in the database unit 33 corresponding to each information providing destination address (or telephone number)). And issue a gasoline ticket (a gift certificate that can be used to purchase gasoline when refueling). If it does in this way, the information provision vehicle 1 which provides useful information will increase, and reliable alerting information can be conveyed to more contacts.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications other than those described above can be made without departing from the spirit thereof. For example, the camera 11 of the information providing vehicle 1, The number recognition unit 12, the information input unit 13, and the transmission unit 14 may be provided in the information providing vehicle 1 as a dedicated vehicle-mounted device instead of the driver's portable terminal. Further, if the contact is the attention target vehicle 2, the receiving unit 21 and the notification unit 22 of the attention target vehicle 2 have the transmission function and the screen display function of the car navigation device to which the attention target vehicle 2 is added, for example, a wireless telephone function. In this case, the alert content can be enlarged and displayed larger than when the screen is displayed on the display unit of the portable terminal. It is also possible to transmit a reply information evaluation using a transmission function of a wireless telephone function added to the car navigation device.
2 is formed by the management processing unit 32 of the management device 3, and for example, the image information of the license plate 2a photographed by the camera 11 is sent from the information providing vehicle 1 to the management device 3 to manage the management device. 3 can also recognize the vehicle number.

  Next, the wireless communication among the information providing vehicle 1, the management device 3, and the contact address is not limited to the cellular phone network, and may be performed using various communication networks.

  Next, the privilege is not limited to the issuance of a gasoline ticket, but may be a variety of issuance of gift certificates, discount of communication costs for providing information, or free of charge.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information provision vehicle 2 Target vehicle 3 Management apparatus 11, 23 Camera 12, 24 Number identification part 13, 25 Information input part 14, 26, 34 Transmission part 15, 21, 31 Reception part 16, 22 Notification part 32 Management processing part 33 Database Department 35 Bonus Grant Department

Claims (3)

The alerting system for receiving the alerting information to the attention target vehicle transmitted from the information providing vehicle by the contact information of the attention target vehicle registered in the management device via the management device outside the vehicle,
In the information providing vehicle,
Recognizing means for recognizing vehicle identification information of the vehicle subject to attention;
Operation means for operating and setting the alert information;
Vehicle-side transmission means for wirelessly transmitting at least the vehicle identification information and the alert information to the management device;
The management device
Storage means for holding the contact information corresponding to the vehicle identification information;
Receiving means for receiving wireless transmission information from the information providing vehicle;
Determining means for determining the contact information of the vehicle on the information receiving side from registration information of the contact information held in the storage means corresponding to the vehicle identification information of the wireless transmission information received;
An alerting system, comprising: a management device-side transmitting unit that wirelessly transmits the alerting information received by the contact point determined by the determining unit. In the alert system according to claim 1,
The management device receives the alert information received from the management device side transmission means to the corresponding contact on condition that the same vehicle identification information and the alert information are received from a plurality of the information providing vehicles. An alert system characterized by wireless communication. In the alert system according to claim 1 or 2,
The management device further includes a privilege granting unit that issues a privilege to a registered provider of the information providing vehicle based on information evaluation of a reply from the contact that has received the alert information. A reminder system.