KR101706142B1 - Smart care apparatus for vehicle and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a smart care apparatus of a vehicle comprises: a wearable device worn by the body of a driver; a portable terminal linked with the wearable device; and a server storing and updating information on the state of the driver. The portable terminal controls at least one among a vehicle and the wearable device based on information obtained from at least one among the wearable device, a sensor provided inside the vehicle, and the server when the portable terminal is mounted in a holding unit of the portable terminal provided inside the vehicle.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a smart car device,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a smart care device for a vehicle and a control method for a smart care device for a vehicle, and more particularly, to a smart care device for a vehicle by controlling a vehicle and a wearable device using a portable terminal such as a smart phone, And more particularly, to a smart care apparatus and method of a vehicle capable of coping with a physical instability situation.

ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) -Car Service is developing under the leadership of ICT, and it is making the mobility experiences of anxiety, irritation and tension as a mobile experience filled with satisfaction and pleasure. Among them, Mobile Second technology focuses on remote control, spatial communication, emotional analysis, personalization and customization to fulfill the maintenance and satisfaction of life style.

On the other hand, the paradigm of the medical service industry is shifting from predominantly to the treatment of existing diseases to gradually maintaining a healthy life through prevention and management. Furthermore, the aging population characteristics are changing, The importance is increasing.

Accordingly, the digital health field in which the ICT and the health care service are combined is attracting attention, and the industrial domain is being expanded as a global core business.

The following prior art documents relate to a method and apparatus for X-ray examination using a mobile vehicle, and do not include the technical gist of the present invention.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2000-0036460

A smart care device of a vehicle and a control method of a smart care device of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention aim at the following problems.

The present invention proposes a smart care device and method of a vehicle that can control a vehicle or a wearable device to empathize a driver with a psychological sense of security or cope with an emergency when the driver is in a psychological unstable state or in a physically unstable state.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for controlling the same.

A smart care device for a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a wearable device to be worn on a body of a driver; A portable terminal interlocked with the wearable device; And a server in which status information of the driver is stored and updated. When the portable terminal is mounted on a portable terminal mounting unit provided in a vehicle, the portable terminal may include the wearable device, a sensor And at least one of the vehicle and the wearable device based on information obtained from at least one of the servers.

When the driver places the portable terminal on the seat of the vehicle and mounts the portable terminal on the mobile terminal mounting portion, the portable terminal displays the information on at least one of the driver's body scanning sensor provided in the vehicle and the user's body information stored in the server To adjust the sheet.

The wearable device acquires the body information of the driver and transmits the body information to the portable terminal. The portable terminal determines whether the driver is in a plurality of preset stable states based on the received body information of the driver, And the stable state is classified into a steady state, a psychological unstable state, and a physically unstable state.

When the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a psychological unstable state, the portable terminal preferably controls at least one of a display, a temperature control device, a media player, and a perfume ejecting device provided in the vehicle.

Preferably, the display, the temperature control device, the media player, and the perfume ejection device are controlled in consideration of the status information of the driver stored in the server.

When the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state, the portable terminal preferably blinks the emergency light mounted on the vehicle or controls the braking system and the steering system of the vehicle to stop the vehicle Do.

When the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state, it is preferable that the portable terminal controls the wearable device to give a warning to the driver.

When the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state, it is preferable that the portable terminal informs the outside of the physically unstable state of the driver based on the emergency response process stored in the portable terminal and the server.

When the portable terminal determines that the vehicle has arrived at the destination, the portable terminal collects status information of the driver during operation of the vehicle and transmits the information to the server. The server analyzes the received status information of the driver, It is preferable that the content corresponding to the status information is transmitted to at least one of the portable terminal and the wearable device.

A SmartCare method for a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first step in which a portable terminal is mounted on a portable terminal mounting part provided in a vehicle; A second step in which the portable terminal receives status information of a driver from at least one of a wearable device worn on a user's body, a sensor provided on the vehicle, and a server on which driver information is stored and updated; And a third step in which the portable terminal controls at least one of the vehicle and the wearable device based on the status information.

In the second step, the portable terminal receives the status information of the driver from the body scanning sensor and the server provided in the vehicle, and in the third step, the portable terminal receives the status information of the vehicle It is desirable to control the seat adjustment.

The third step may include a third step of determining whether the portable terminal is in a plurality of preset stable states, And (3-2) controlling at least one of the vehicle and the wearable device based on the stable state of the portable terminal, wherein the stable state is classified into a normal state, a psychological unstable state, and a physically unstable state .

If the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a psychological unstable state in step 3-1, the step 3-2 is a step in which the portable terminal displays a display, a temperature control device, a media player, And a step 3-2a for controlling at least one of the blowing apparatuses.

If the portable terminal determines in step 3-1 that the stable state is a physically unstable state, the step 3-2 is a step in which the portable terminal blinks an emergency light mounted on the vehicle, The braking system and the steering system are controlled.

If the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state in the step 3-1, the step 3-2 may include a step of controlling the wearable device so as to give a warning to the driver 3-2c.

If the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state in the step 3-1, the step 3-2 may be a step of, based on the emergency response process stored in the portable terminal and the server, And a third-2d step of informing the outside of the unstable state.

After the third step, the portable terminal determines that the vehicle has arrived at a destination; A fifth step of collecting status information of the driver during the operation of the vehicle and transmitting the collected status information to the server; And analyzing status information of the driver received by the server and transmitting the content corresponding to the status information to at least one of the portable terminal and the wearable device.

The smart care apparatus and method of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by organically interlocking a portable terminal, a wearable device, a vehicle, and a server and using the same to detect an appropriate response to a psychological unstable state or a physically unstable state It is possible to expect an effect of improving the stability of travel through the vehicle.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to those mentioned above, and other effects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

1 is a block diagram briefly illustrating a smart care device of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 to 4 are flow charts illustrating a smart care method of a vehicle in a time-series manner according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout.

In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail since they would obscure the invention in unnecessary detail. It is to be noted that the accompanying drawings are only for the purpose of facilitating understanding of the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, a smart care apparatus for a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 is a block diagram briefly illustrating a smart care device of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The smart care apparatus of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a wearable device 100, a portable terminal 200, and a server 300, as shown in FIG.

The wearable device 100 is a device to be worn on the body of a driver, and specifically includes a sensor capable of detecting a body change of a driver such as a heart rate, a communication module for performing communication with an external device, A display and a vibration module.

The portable terminal 200 is configured to be interlocked with the wearable device 100 and has a function such as a smart phone generally used. In addition, when the mobile terminal 400 is mounted on the portable terminal mount unit 410 provided in the vehicle 400, it is interlocked with an electronic control unit (ECU) in the vehicle, and further interlocked with a separate cloud server provided outside It is also possible.

The server 300 stores and updates the status information of the driver so that the information inputted through the wearable device 100 and the portable terminal 200 is stored and updated in the server 300 and further transmitted to the server 300 And transmits the stored information to the wearable device 100 and the portable terminal 200.

When the portable terminal 200 is mounted on the terminal mounting unit 410 provided inside the vehicle, the portable terminal 410 includes the wearable device 100, the sensor 420 installed in the vehicle and the server 300, At least one of the vehicle 400 and the wearable device 100 is controlled based on information obtained from at least one of the wearable device 100 and the wearable device 100. [

An embodiment in which the smart care device of the vehicle according to the embodiment of the present invention can be utilized in a situation prior to the start of the vehicle will be described. The driver's seat can be automatically adjusted according to the body shape of the driver by using the driver's body scanning sensor 420 installed inside the vehicle 400. [ Specifically, when the driver is seated on the seat of the vehicle and mounts the portable terminal 200 on the portable terminal mount 410, the portable terminal 200 may be mounted on the driver's body scanning sensor and the server 300 The driver's seat can be adjusted based on at least one of the user's body information stored in the driver's seat. If the driver docks his / her portable terminal 200 to the portable terminal unit 410, the portable terminal 200 can easily confirm whether or not the driver can operate the current vehicle. Such as the heart rate sensed by the wearable device 100, from the body information and the health check information of the driver transmitted from the server 300 and outputs the collected contents to the display 430 or portable And outputs it to the terminal 200. If it is determined that the current state of the driver is a problem in driving the vehicle, the optimum temperature is derived through the temperature control device 440 provided in the vehicle to remedy the current state of the driver, And it is also possible to control the media player 450 to reproduce contents that can take psychological stability of the driver. Furthermore, if it is determined that the driver is in a serious situation where the driver can not drive, it is also possible to control the vehicle so as not to allow the driver to drive the vehicle.

When it is determined that the driver is in a state capable of driving, the vehicle can be driven toward the destination. Hereinafter, the smart care device of the vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention may be utilized during driving of the vehicle An implementation example will be described. The wearable device 100 obtains the body information of the driver in real time and transmits the body information to the portable terminal 200. The portable terminal 200 determines whether the driver is in a normal state or a psychological unstable state based on the received physical information of the driver And a physically unstable state. Then, the portable terminal 200 controls the vehicle 400 or the wearable device 100 according to the corresponding state.

When the portable terminal 100 determines that the current driver is in a psychological unstable state, the portable terminal 100 displays the display 430, the temperature controller 440, the media player 450, (460) and so on. Specifically, based on the biometric data detected by the wearable device 100, the portable terminal 100 determines that the driver is currently in a psychological unstable state, and outputs the contents to the display 430 of the vehicle 400, He can recognize that he is currently in a psychological unstable state. At this time, if the driver grasps the steering wheel on a regular basis, it is determined that the sensors 420 provided in the vehicle have a will that the driver is about to normalize, and the devices inside the vehicle can be controlled so that such psychological instability can be solved. For example, the portable terminal 200 can calculate the optimum temperature for solving the psychological instability of the current driver to drive the temperature control device 440 in the vehicle, and can drive the media player 450 to relieve psychological instability The media content can be executed. Further, when the perfume ejection device 460 is provided in the vehicle, it is also possible to control the perfume ejection device 460 to eject an aroma for relieving tension. The control of various devices in the vehicle may be controlled in consideration of the driver's big data stored in the server 330. [

When the portable terminal 100 determines that the current driver is under a physically unstable state, that is, a driver's seat deviation, cardiac arrest, sleepiness, or the like, based on biometric data of the driver that the driver has detected through the wearable device 100 , The emergency light 470 mounted on the vehicle may be blinked or the vehicle 400 may be stopped by directly controlling the braking system 480 and the steering system 490 of the vehicle. In addition, the portable terminal 200 may inform the driver that the driver himself / herself is in a physically unstable state by displaying it on the display 430 of the vehicle. In particular, by driving the vibration module of the wearable device 100, It can also promote conscious recovery. Furthermore, it is also possible to inform the outside of the physical instability state of the driver based on the emergency response process stored in the portable terminal 200 or the server 300. Specifically, the portable terminal 200 may automatically connect to an emergency center such as 119 to continuously transmit the biometric information of the driver, the location information of the vehicle, and the emergency communication network information set by the driver, Based on the information sent by the mobile terminal 200, prepare a guidance on how to cope with the situation, prepare for evacuation, link with surrounding institutions, and take emergency contact with the user's acquaintance. Meanwhile, the portable terminal 200 may directly notify the occurrence of an accident and GPS information of the vehicle directly to the portable terminal or wearable device of the acquaintance.

The portable terminal 200 may determine that the vehicle 400 has arrived at its destination and determine that the vehicle 400 has arrived at the destination of the vehicle 400. In this case, Collects status information of the driver during operation, and transmits the collected information to the server 300. The server 300 analyzes the status information of the received driver and notifies the driver of the comprehensive management status report. In addition, the server 300 receives the user health information collection result and the recommendation contents corresponding to the collected result, and can improve the psychological and physical health state by using the recommended content.

Hereinafter, a method of smart care of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4. Hereinafter, a smart care method of a vehicle, The detailed description will be omitted. 2 to 4 are flow charts illustrating a smart care method of a vehicle in a time-series manner according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, a smart care method of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first step S100 of mounting the portable terminal 200, a second step S200 of acquiring status information of a driver, And a third step S300 of controlling the vehicle 400 and the wearable device 100. [ The first step S100 is a step in which the portable terminal 200 is mounted on the portable terminal mounting part 410 provided in the vehicle. In the second step S200, the portable terminal 200 is connected to at least one of the wearable device 100 worn on the user's body, the sensor 420 provided in the vehicle, and the server 300 in which the driver's information is stored and updated And receiving status information of the driver. The third step S300 is a step in which the portable terminal 200 controls at least one of the vehicle 400 and the wearable device 100 based on the status information.

In the second step S200, the portable terminal 200 receives the status information of the driver from the body scanning sensor and the server 300 provided in the vehicle 400, and in the third step S300, the portable terminal 200 Can control the seat adjustment of the vehicle based on the input state information so that the smart care method of the vehicle according to the embodiment of the present invention can be utilized in the pre-vehicle start situation.

 In addition, the portable terminal 200 may control the vehicle 400 on the basis of the stable state of the driver while driving the vehicle, which will be described in detail with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the third step S300 of the smart care method of the vehicle according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a third step (S310) of determining the driver's state, a third step And a third step (S320) of controlling at least one of the vehicle 400 and the wearable device 100 based on the judgment.

Step S310 is a step of determining whether the portable terminal 200 is in a state among a plurality of preset stable states, and the plurality of stable states may be a normal state, a psychological unstable state, and a physically unstable state . If it is determined that the current stable state of the driver is a psychological unstable state as a result of the determination in step S3-1 (S310), the portable terminal 200 displays the display 430, the temperature controller 440, (S321) of controlling the at least one of the air conditioner 450 and the perfume ejection apparatus 460 may be performed.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S310 that the current stable state of the driver is a physical unstable state, the portable terminal 200 blinks the emergency light 470 mounted on the vehicle, Step 3-2b of controlling the system 480 and the steering system 490 may be performed to cause the vehicle 400 to stop on its way. In step 3-2c (S323) in which the portable terminal 200 controls the wearable device 100 to give a warning to the driver or based on the emergency response process stored in the portable terminal 200 and the server 300 It is also possible to perform the step 3-2d (S324) of notifying the outside of the physically unstable state of the driver.

Hereinafter, an application example of the smart care method of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in the case where the vehicle 400 completes driving and arrives at its destination with reference to FIG. 4, a smart care method for a vehicle according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a fourth step S400 of determining whether a vehicle has reached a destination after performing a third step S300, A fifth step S500 of collecting status information of the driver during the operation of the vehicle and transmitting the information to the server 300 and analyzing the status information of the driver received by the server 300, To the portable terminal 200 and / or the wearable device 300 (S600).

The embodiments and the accompanying drawings described in the present specification are merely illustrative of some of the technical ideas included in the present invention. Therefore, it is to be understood that the embodiments disclosed herein are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the present invention. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents. It should be interpreted.

100: wearable device
200: portable terminal
300: server
400: vehicle
410: Portable terminal holder
420: sensor
430: Display
440: Temperature control device
450: Media Player
460: Perfume ejector
470: Emergency lights
480: Braking system
490: Steering system

Claims (17)

A wearable device (100) worn on the body of a driver;
A portable terminal (200) interlocked with the wearable device (100); And
A server 300 in which status information of the driver is stored and updated;
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When the portable terminal 200 is mounted on the portable terminal holder 410 provided inside the vehicle, the portable terminal 200 may be mounted on the wearable device 100, the sensor 420 installed in the vehicle, Controls at least one of the vehicle (400) and the wearable device (100) based on information obtained from at least one of the server (300)
When the driver places the portable terminal 200 on the seat of the vehicle and mounts the portable terminal 200 on the portable terminal mounting portion 410, the portable terminal 200 may perform driver body scanning A sensor is used to adjust the seat in accordance with the body shape of the driver,
The portable terminal 200 determines the state of the driver based on the received body information of the driver, and when the driver determines that the driver is in a psychological unstable state, the sensor 420 provided in the vehicle determines that the driver has turned the steering wheel Controlling the devices inside the vehicle so as to eliminate psychological instability when it is determined that the devices are caught,
When the driver of the portable terminal 200 determines that the driver is physically unstable in any of the driver's seat deviation, cardiac arrest, and drowsiness, the portable terminal 200 blinks the emergency light 470 mounted on the vehicle,
The portable terminal 200 determines that the vehicle arrives at the destination when the driver removes the portable terminal 200 from the portable terminal receiver 410 after the driver arrives at the destination, And transmits the collected information to the server 300. The server 300 analyzes the received status information of the driver and transmits the content to the portable terminal 200 in order to improve the psychological or physical health status corresponding to the status information. Smart car device of the vehicle transmitting to.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the portable terminal (200) adjusts the seat based on user's body information stored in the server (300).
The method according to claim 1,
The wearable device 100 acquires the body information of the driver and transmits the body information to the portable terminal 200,
The portable terminal 200 determines which of a plurality of stable states preset by the driver based on the received body information of the driver and determines whether the vehicle 400 or the wearable device 100 is in a stable state, Lt; / RTI >
Wherein the stable state is classified into a steady state, a psychological unstable state, and a physically unstable state.
The method of claim 3,
When the portable terminal 200 determines that the stable state is a psychological unstable state,
The portable terminal 200 controls at least one of the display 430, the temperature control device 440, the media player 450, and the perfume ejection device 460 provided in the vehicle.
5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the display 430, the temperature control device 440, the media player 450 and the perfume ejection device 460 are controlled in consideration of the status information of the driver stored in the server 300.
The method of claim 3,
When the portable terminal 200 determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state,
And controls the braking system (480) and the steering system (490) of the vehicle to stop the vehicle at the shoulder.
The method of claim 3,
When the portable terminal 200 determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state,
Wherein the portable terminal (200) controls the wearable device (100) to give a warning to the driver.
The method of claim 3,
When the portable terminal 200 determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state,
And informs the outside of the physical instability state of the driver based on the emergency response process stored in the portable terminal (200) or the server (300).
delete A first step (S100) in which the driver seated on the seat of the vehicle and the portable terminal (200) is mounted on the portable terminal mounting part (410) provided in the vehicle;
The portable terminal 200 transmits the driver's state information from at least one of the wearable device 100 worn on the user's body, the sensor 420 provided in the vehicle, and the server 300 in which the driver's information is stored and updated Receiving a second step (S200);
A third step (S300) in which the portable terminal (200) controls at least one of the vehicle (400) and the wearable device (100) based on the status information;
A fourth step (S400) of determining that the portable terminal (200) arrives at a destination when the portable terminal (200) is detached from the portable terminal mounting part (410) after the driver arrives at a destination;
A fifth step S500 of collecting status information of the driver during the operation of the vehicle and transmitting the information to the server 300; And
A sixth step (S600) of analyzing status information of the driver received by the server (300) and transmitting the content to the portable terminal (200) so as to improve the psychological or physical health condition corresponding to the status information;
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In the second step S200, the portable terminal 200 receives the driver's state information from the driver's body scanning sensor provided in the vehicle 400, and in the third step S300, Based on the information, adjusts the seat in accordance with the driver's body shape before starting the vehicle,
In the third step S300, the portable terminal 200 determines the state of the driver based on the received body information of the driver. If the driver determines that the driver is in a psychological unstable state, 420 controls the devices inside the vehicle to eliminate psychological instability when it is determined that the driver has caught the steering wheel,
In the third step S300, if the driver determines that the driver is physically unstable in any of the driver's seat deviation, cardiac arrest, and drowsiness, the portable terminal 200 displays the emergency light 470 on the vehicle Smart Care Method.
11. The method of claim 10,
In the second step S200, the portable terminal 200 receives status information of the driver from the server,
In the third step S300, the portable terminal 200 controls the seat adjustment of the vehicle based on the received state information.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the third step (S300)
A third step (S310) of determining whether the portable terminal (200) is in a state among a plurality of preset stable states; And
A third step (S320) of controlling at least one of the vehicle (400) and the wearable device (100) based on the stable state of the portable terminal (200);
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Wherein the stable state is classified into a steady state, a psychological unstable state, and a physically unstable state.
13. The method of claim 12,
If the portable terminal 200 determines that the stable state is a psychological unstable state in the step 3-1 (S310)
In step S320, the portable terminal 200 displays at least one of the display 430, the temperature control device 440, the media player 450, and the perfume ejection device 460 installed in the vehicle (Step S321).
13. The method of claim 12,
If the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state in step 3-1 (S310)
Step 3-2 (S320) is a third-2b step (S322) in which the portable terminal 200 controls the braking system 480 and the steering system 490 of the vehicle.
13. The method of claim 12,
If the portable terminal 200 determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state in step 3-1 (S310)
Step 3-2 (S320) is a third-2c step (S323) in which the portable terminal controls the wearable device 100 to give a warning to the driver.
13. The method of claim 12,
If the portable terminal determines that the stable state is a physically unstable state in step 3-1 (S310)
Step 3-2 (S320) includes a third-2d step (S324) of informing the outside of the driver's physical instability based on the emergency response process stored in the portable terminal 200 and the server 300, Of smart car.
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