JP5106225B2 - Vehicle monitoring system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a vehicle monitoring system, and more particularly to a vehicle monitoring system that monitors a vehicle parked in a parking lot from a remote central monitoring center.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a vehicle monitoring system that uses a monitoring camera installed in a parking lot and monitors a vehicle stopped in the parking lot from a remote central monitoring center is known.

  An example of a conventional vehicle monitoring system will be described with reference to FIG. The vehicle monitoring system 110 includes a parking lot monitoring device 120 provided in the parking lot 112 and a central monitoring center 130 that remotely monitors the parking lot 112. The parking lot monitoring device 120 and the central monitoring center 130 are connected by a communication network 116.

  The parking lot monitoring device 120 has a monitoring camera 122 that takes a picture of the vehicle 114 that is parked at the parking lot 112 and the vicinity of the vehicle 114, and image data that is sent to the central monitoring center 130 image data taken by the monitoring camera 122. The transmission means 126 is comprised.

  The central monitoring center 130 includes a display screen 132 that displays the image data sent from the parking lot monitoring device 120, and a storage unit 134 that stores the image data. A supervisor is stationed at the central monitoring center 130, and the supervisor monitors the parking lot 112 through the display screen 132. If the vehicle 114 parked at the parking lot 112 is damaged by theft or mischief, or if there is a risk of such damage, the supervisor will notify the crime prevention / security organization or be provided in the parking lot 112. It is possible to take crime prevention measures such as generating a warning sound from the alarm.

  Patent Document 1 below describes a security monitoring camera system that automatically monitors image data captured by a local monitoring camera using a remote central monitoring control device. In this security monitoring camera system, the central monitoring control device has an image recognition unit that recognizes an image in image data and determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred. With this configuration, when an abnormality occurs on site, the central monitoring and control apparatus can automatically determine that an abnormality has occurred and take measures for crime prevention, thereby reducing the burden of remote monitoring work by the supervisor.

JP 2005-11162 A

  In a conventional vehicle monitoring system, if a vehicle is damaged, such as theft or mischief, or if there is a risk of such damage, the above-mentioned crime prevention measures, that is, reporting to the crime prevention / security organization, A warning sound can be generated from the alarm device in the parking lot. However, in a conventional vehicle monitoring system, the observer must determine whether the vehicle has been damaged, such as theft or mischief, or that the vehicle may be damaged, and the subsequent crime prevention measures. , The monitoring work of the monitor was overloaded. In addition, since information on the vehicle owner is not stored in the central monitoring center, the central monitoring center cannot notify the vehicle owner that the vehicle is damaged or that there is a risk of such damage. On the other hand, there was no means for the vehicle owner to know the safety of his vehicle.

  An object of the present invention is a vehicle monitoring system that monitors a vehicle parked in a parking lot from a remote central monitoring center, and that the vehicle has suffered damage such as theft or mischief, or may be damaged. It is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle monitoring system in which the owner of a vehicle can easily know without taking the trouble of a supervisor.

The present invention relates to a vehicle monitoring system for monitoring a vehicle parked in a parking lot by a remote central monitoring center, a photographing means for photographing a vehicle and the vicinity of the vehicle, and an image displayed on image data photographed by the photographing means. abnormality determination means determines that the vehicles of the abnormality in accordance with the amount of change, and the image data abnormality determination means determines an abnormality, the image data transmitting means for transmitting to the central control center, a parking monitoring system comprising And a central monitoring center having a database preliminarily storing a terminal owned by the owner of the vehicle, identification information for identifying the owner of the vehicle, and a notification destination of the owner's terminal. The central monitoring center searches the database for the owner of the vehicle in which the abnormality occurred based on the abnormality determined by the abnormality occurrence determination means, and the terminal of the owner Transmits signal an alarm, abnormality determination means may detects determines that abnormality of the vehicle to be a suspicious person from the size of the motion of a person approaching the vehicle, within a predetermined time after detecting the suspicious person When the movement of the vehicle is detected, it is determined that the vehicle has been stolen and it is determined that the vehicle is abnormal .

  The central monitoring center also includes edit data creating means for creating edit data obtained by editing data relating to occurrence of abnormality from image data sent from the image data sending means, and edit data for storing edit data created by the edit data creating means. The terminal of the owner of the vehicle in which an abnormality has occurred acquires the editing data stored in the editing data storage means.

  The edit data is a plurality of still images extracted from the image data sent from the image data sending means.

  The central monitoring center includes a history storage unit that stores a history of the date and time that the abnormality occurrence determination unit determines to be abnormal, and an image storage unit that stores image data sent from the image data transmission unit, The data creation means creates edit data by associating the date and time history saved by the history saving means with the image data accumulated by the image accumulation means.

  The central monitoring center further collates the personal identification information input from the terminal and the identification information of the owner stored in the database, and permits access to the edited data from the terminal only when they match. It has an authentication means.

  Further, the image data included in the editing data is thumbnail data.

  According to the vehicle monitoring system of the present invention, a vehicle abnormality such as that a vehicle parked in a parking lot has suffered damage such as theft or mischief or is likely to be damaged is automatically determined. And since the contact information of the vehicle owner's terminal is stored in the central monitoring center, the contact information of the vehicle owner where the abnormality occurred is searched and an alarm is automatically issued to that terminal device. can do. Therefore, the owner of the vehicle can easily know that an abnormality has occurred in his / her vehicle without taking the trouble of the monitoring staff.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a vehicle monitoring system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As an example, a single parking lot will be described, and a vehicle monitoring system for remotely monitoring this parking lot will be described. In addition, this invention is applicable not only to one parking lot but the vehicle monitoring system which monitors several parking lots collectively from a distant place.

  First, the configuration of the vehicle monitoring system 10 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The vehicle monitoring system 10 includes a parking lot monitoring device 20 provided in the parking lot 12, a central monitoring center 30 that remotely monitors the parking lot 12, and a terminal possessed by the owner of the vehicle 14 parked at the parking lot 12. Machine 50. The parking lot monitoring device 20, the central monitoring center 30, and the terminal device 50 are connected by a communication network 16. The vehicle 14 is a vehicle to be monitored in the present embodiment among a plurality of vehicles that stop at the parking lot 12.

  The communication network 16 is configured by a wired system or a wireless system. Moreover, it is also possible to mix both. The communication network 16 may be a shared communication network provided for public flights or an original dedicated communication network. Moreover, it is also possible to mix both. As the shared communication network, a normal telephone line is used, but not limited to this, an ISDN line, a mobile phone, or a PHS can be used.

  The terminal device 50 is a communication device capable of communicating voice information, character information, image data information, or a combination thereof, and is, for example, a mobile phone, a PHS, a personal computer, or the like.

  The parking lot monitoring device 20 includes a monitoring camera 22 (corresponding to the photographing means of the present invention) for photographing the vehicle 14 stopped at the parking lot 12 and the vicinity of the vehicle 14, and image data photographed by the surveillance camera 22. An abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 that determines an abnormality of the vehicle 14 based on the image data, and an image data transmission unit 26 that transmits image data that the abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 has determined to be abnormal to the central monitoring center 30.

  The monitoring camera 22 captures a predetermined monitoring area to be monitored and outputs the captured image to the abnormality occurrence determination unit 24. The monitoring area in the present embodiment is the vehicle 14 and the vicinity of the vehicle 14. Note that the monitoring area may include a parking space where the vehicle 14 is parked and a plurality of parking spaces around the parking space. Accordingly, a plurality of stopped vehicles including the vehicle 14 can be simultaneously monitored by one monitoring camera 22. When a plurality of vehicles are monitored by one monitoring camera 22, the abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 described below performs a process of dividing the monitoring area for each vehicle.

  The abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 recognizes an image to be monitored from the image data captured by the monitoring camera 22. The image is a vehicle 14 and a person parked in the parking space. The abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 calculates the movement of the image in the image from two images taken by the monitoring camera 22 at different shooting times by a predetermined time. Then, it is determined whether or not the vehicle 14 is abnormal according to the amount of change in the image between the two images. Specifically, a person approaching the vehicle 14 is recognized, and the person 14 is detected as being suspicious from the magnitude of the movement of the person, and is determined to be abnormal. Alternatively, the vehicle 14 is authorized, and the movement of the vehicle 14 is detected from the magnitude of the movement of the vehicle 14, and it is determined that the vehicle 14 is abnormal. When the abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 determines that there is an abnormality, the image data serving as the basis is output to the image data transmission unit 26, and the image data transmission unit 26 transmits the data to the central monitoring center 30.

  The central monitoring center 30 includes a monitoring control device 32 that receives image data from the parking lot monitoring device 20 and a database 34 that stores in advance the notification destination of the terminal 50 of the owner of the vehicle 14. In addition to the notification destination of the terminal 50 of the owner of the vehicle 14, the database 34 includes the owners of other vehicles that use the parking lot 12, and the owners of vehicles that use other parking lots to be monitored. The contact information of the terminal is stored in advance. Further, the database 34 stores in advance identification information of the owner of the vehicle 14. The identification information consists of a user ID and a password. This identification information is used by the authentication means 44 described later. In addition to the identification information of the owner of the vehicle 14, the database 34 stores in advance identification information of the owner of another vehicle that uses the parking lot 12, or the owner of the vehicle that uses another parking lot to be monitored. I remember it.

  The monitoring control device 32 in the present embodiment can issue an alarm to the terminal of the owner of the vehicle based on the abnormality of the vehicle. For example, when the abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 determines that an abnormality has occurred in the vehicle 14 and the monitoring control device 32 receives the image data from the parking lot monitoring device 20, the monitoring control device 32 is the terminal of the owner of the vehicle 14. The contact information of the machine 50 can be retrieved from the database 34 and an alarm can be issued to the contact information. The alarm may be voice, text, image data, or a combination thereof.

  In addition, the central monitoring center 30 includes a history storage unit 36 that stores the history of the date and time that the abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 determined to be abnormal, and the image storage unit 38 that stores the image data sent from the parking lot monitoring device 20. Have.

  The history storage unit 36 stores the history of the date and time when it is determined that the vehicle is abnormal, separately for each vehicle or each vehicle owner. The date and time history stored in the history storage means 36 is used by the edit data creation means 40 described later. The date and time may be the date and time taken by the monitoring camera 22 or the date and time when the central monitoring center 30 received the image data.

  The image storage means 38 stores the image data sent from the parking lot monitoring device 20 separately for each vehicle or for each owner of the vehicle. The image data stored in the image storage means 38 is used by the edit data creation means 40 described later.

  Further, the central monitoring center 30 includes edit data creation means 40 that creates edit data related to occurrence of abnormality from image data, and edit data storage means 42 that stores edit data created by the edit data creation means 40.

  The edit data creation means 40 creates edit data by associating the date and time history saved by the history save means 36 with the image data accumulated by the image accumulation means 38. That is, the date and time and the image data corresponding to the date and time are combined, and the combination is arranged in order of history to create editing data. The edit data is a plurality of still images extracted from the image data. This still image can be a reduced image, that is, thumbnail data.

  The edit data storage means 42 stores the edit data created by the edit data creation means 40 separately for each vehicle or vehicle owner. The editing data stored in the editing data storage means 42 can be accessed from a terminal owned by the owner of each vehicle. That is, the editing data related to the vehicle 14 can be accessed from the terminal 50 owned by the owner of the vehicle 14.

  Further, the central monitoring center 30 has an authentication means 44 that permits access to the edited data from a terminal owned by the owner of each vehicle. The authentication means 44 collates the personal identification information input from each terminal and the owner identification information stored in the database 34, and permits access to the edited data from the terminal only when they match. The personal identification information consists of a user ID and a password. When accessing the editing data from the terminal device 50, the user ID and password of the owner of the vehicle 14 are input to the terminal device 50, and the authentication means 44 performs a collation operation of the user ID and password. If the user ID and password of the owner of the vehicle 14 match the identification information stored in the database 34, the authentication unit 44 permits access from the terminal 50 to the editing data related to the vehicle 14.

  Next, the operation of the vehicle monitoring system 10 will be described.

  First, the operation of the parking lot monitoring apparatus 20 when a suspicious person approaches the vehicle 14 will be described. The surveillance camera 22 captures a situation where a suspicious person approaches the vehicle 14. Image data captured by the monitoring camera 22 is sent to the abnormality occurrence determination means 24. The abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 recognizes the image from the image data. The image is the vehicle 14 and a person approaching the vehicle 14 (suspicious person). The abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 detects that the person is a suspicious person based on the movement of the authorized person. Then, the abnormality occurrence determination unit 42 determines that the vehicle 14 may be damaged or stolen, that is, the vehicle 14 is abnormal. Then, the abnormality generation unit 24 outputs the image data determined to be abnormal to the image data transmission unit 26, and the image data transmission unit 26 transmits the data to the central monitoring center 30.

  Next, operation | movement of the parking lot monitoring apparatus 20 when a suspicious person moves the vehicle 14 is demonstrated. The monitoring camera 22 captures the situation in the vicinity of the vehicle 14. Image data photographed by the monitoring camera 22 is sent to the abnormality occurrence determination means 24. The abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 recognizes the image from the image data. The image is a vehicle 14. The abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 determines that the vehicle 14 has been stolen when the movement of the vehicle is detected within a certain time after the suspicious person is detected. Then, the abnormality occurrence determination unit 24 outputs the image data determined to be stolen to the image data transmission unit 26, and the image data transmission unit 26 transmits the data to the central monitoring center 30.

  Next, the operation of the central monitoring center 30 will be described. In the central monitoring center 30, the monitoring control device 32 receives the image data sent by the image data transmitting means 26. The monitoring control device 32 searches the database 34 for the contact information of the terminal 50 possessed by the owner of the vehicle 14 in which the abnormality has occurred, and issues an alarm to the terminal 50.

  The monitoring control device 32 outputs the date and time recorded in the image data sent from the image data transmission unit 26 to the history storage unit 36 and outputs the image data to the image data storage unit 38. The history storage unit 36 stores the date and time as belonging to the vehicle 14, and the image data storage unit 38 stores the image data as belonging to the vehicle 14.

  The edit data creation means 40 creates edit data by combining the date and time of the history storage means 36 and the image data of the image data storage means 38. At this time, the image data is converted into thumbnail data. Then, the edit data storage means 42 stores the edit data.

  The owner who has confirmed the alarm at the terminal 50 can access the central monitoring center 30 from the terminal 50. At this time, the authentication unit 44 determines whether or not the person who has accessed is a person having access authority by collating the personal identification information. When access is permitted by the authentication means 44, the owner of the vehicle 14 can acquire and confirm the edit data on the situation of the vehicle 14 in which an abnormality has occurred.

  According to the vehicle monitoring system 10 according to the present embodiment, the abnormality of the vehicle 14 such as that the vehicle 14 stopped in the parking lot 12 has suffered damage such as theft or mischief or may be damaged automatically. Therefore, the alarm is issued to the terminal 50 of the owner of the vehicle 14, so that the burden on the monitoring work of the supervisor is reduced. In addition, the alarm received by the terminal device 50 allows the owner of the vehicle 14 to easily know that an abnormality has occurred in his / her vehicle. Further, since the owner of the vehicle 14 can access the central monitoring center 30 from the terminal 50 and can confirm the situation of the vehicle 14 in which an abnormality has occurred by editing data including image data, the visibility is good. Furthermore, since the image data attached to the edit data is arranged in order of history, the owner of the vehicle 14 can easily check the status of the vehicle 14 retroactively.

  In the present embodiment, the case where the central monitoring center 30 issues an alarm to the terminal 50 of the owner of the vehicle 14 in which an abnormality has occurred has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this configuration. The central monitoring center 30 can issue an alarm to the terminal of the manager of the parking lot 12, and can also issue an alarm to the police, a security company, or the like.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the conventional vehicle monitoring system. It is a figure which shows the structure of the vehicle monitoring system which concerns on this embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  10,110 Vehicle monitoring system, 12,112 Parking lot, 14,114 Vehicle, 16,116 Communication network, 20,120 Parking lot monitoring device, 22,122 Monitoring camera, 24 Abnormality occurrence determination means, 26,126 Image data transmission Means 30, 130 Central monitoring center, 34 Database, 36 History storage means, 38 Image storage means, 40 Edit data creation means, 42 Edit data storage means, 44 Authentication means, 50 Terminals.

Claims (6)

In a vehicle monitoring system for monitoring a vehicle parked in a parking lot by a remote central monitoring center,
Photographing means for photographing the vehicle and the vicinity of the vehicle;
Abnormality determining means for determining that vehicles of abnormality in accordance with the change amount of the image to be displayed on the taken image data by the imaging means and,
Image data transmitting means for transmitting the image data determined to be abnormal by the abnormality occurrence determining means to the central monitoring center;
A parking lot monitoring device comprising:
A terminal owned by the owner of the vehicle;
A central monitoring center having a database in which identification information for identifying the owner of the vehicle and a notification destination of the terminal of the owner are stored in advance;
Are connected via a communication network,
Based on the abnormality determined by the abnormality determination means, the central monitoring center searches the owner of the vehicle in which the abnormality has occurred from the database and issues an alarm to the terminal of the owner,
The abnormality occurrence determination means detects a suspicious person from the magnitude of movement of a person approaching the vehicle and determines that the vehicle is abnormal, and detects movement of the vehicle within a predetermined time after detecting the suspicious person. If the vehicle is stolen, it is determined that the vehicle is abnormal.
A vehicle monitoring system characterized by that. The vehicle monitoring system according to claim 1,
The central monitoring center includes edit data creating means for creating edit data obtained by editing data related to occurrence of abnormality from the image data sent from the image data sending means,
Edit data storage means for storing edit data created by the edit data creation means;
Have
The terminal of the owner of the vehicle in which the abnormality has occurred acquires the edit data stored in the edit data storage means,
A vehicle monitoring system characterized by that. The vehicle monitoring system according to claim 2,
The edit data is a plurality of still images extracted from the image data sent from the image data sending means.
A vehicle monitoring system characterized by that. The vehicle monitoring system according to claim 2 or 3,
The central monitoring center
History storage means for storing the history of the date and time when the abnormality occurrence determination means determined to be abnormal,
Image storage means for storing image data sent from the image data transmission means;
Have
The edit data creating means creates edit data by associating the image data accumulated by the image accumulation means with the date and time history saved by the history saving means,
A vehicle monitoring system characterized by that. The vehicle monitoring system according to any one of claims 2 to 4,
The central monitoring center
The personal identification information input from the terminal and the identification information of the owner stored in the database are collated, and an authentication unit is provided that permits access to the edited data from the terminal only when they match. Vehicle monitoring system. In the vehicle monitoring system according to any one of claims 2 to 5,
The vehicle monitoring system, wherein the image data included in the edit data is thumbnail data.

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