KR20060006715A - Robbery prevention system and method using telematics system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vehicle anti-theft system and method, and more particularly, to determine whether a person or an object is detected when an external shock is detected and, in the case of a person, to prevent theft using a telematics system that photographs the inside of the vehicle with a camera and transmits the captured image to a user. System and method. The present invention is a detection sensor for detecting a shock from the outside of the vehicle to generate a shock detection signal, a person / object detection sensor for determining whether a shocked object is a person or an object under predetermined control, and operates under a predetermined control. At least one digital camera mounted inside the vehicle and outputting image data by capturing the inside of the vehicle, a camera driver controlling the camera operation under predetermined control, and receiving the shock detection signal to detect the person / object The sensor determines whether the shocked object is a person or an object, and if it is a person, controls the camera driving unit to receive the image data photographed by the camera and transmits the image inside the vehicle to the user through a telematics system. It consists of.

Telematics, person detection, object detection, shock detection, camera, anti-theft

Description

Anti-theft system and method using telematics system {ROBBERY PREVENTION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING TELEMATICS SYSTEM}             

1 is a view schematically showing the configuration of a vehicle anti-theft system disposed in a vehicle according to the present invention.

2 is a view showing the internal configuration of a vehicle anti-theft system according to the invention

3 is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a telematics terminal applied according to the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a vehicle anti-theft method using telematics applied according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to a vehicle anti-theft system and method, and more particularly, to determine whether a person or an object is detected when an external shock is detected and, in the case of a person, to prevent theft using a telematics system that photographs the inside of the vehicle with a camera and transmits the captured image to a user. Systems and methods.

At present, the number of vehicles per household has risen sharply due to industrial development and the increase of national income. As the number of cars per household increases rapidly, problems such as traffic congestion that occur at any time zone and frequent disputes with neighboring residents due to lack of parking space are occurring.

Along with these problems, vehicle-related problems that frequently occur include theft of vehicles, and damages of traveling vehicles due to disputes with neighboring residents or vehicle damages by occupants as described above.

Of these issues, car owners are most concerned about car theft and car damage. Various types of antitheft devices are currently being developed and marketed to alleviate the concerns of these vehicle owners.

Conventional antitheft devices include unidirectional and bidirectional antitheft devices. The unidirectional anti-theft device includes a plurality of shock sensors and theft sensors for detecting the opening of the car door, and generates an alarm sound when a certain force is applied to the car or the car door is opened, and the vehicle is shocked and / or stolen. It consists of a transmission unit for transmitting the alarm signal indicating that this has occurred wirelessly, the vehicle unit (Unit) installed in the vehicle and the user unit that receives the alarm signal and informs the user by an icon or text, the external shock When this occurs, an alarm signal is sent to the user unit to notify that an impact has occurred in his vehicle.

In the bi-directional case, the user who receives the alarm signal as in the one-way direction recognizes whether the vehicle is shocked or stolen through the user unit and forcibly locks the door to the vehicle unit or transmits a control signal to make the alarm sound louder. Surprise or embarrass the shocker who shocked you, or the thieves who try to steal your vehicle, so as not to steal it. In other words, the vehicle unit and the user unit of the bidirectional anti-theft device should be provided with both a transmitting and receiving unit.

As described above, the conventional anti-theft device can be recognized only when a user having a user unit is within a certain distance from his own vehicle, so when the user is out of the distance, it is not known even if the vehicle is shocked or stolen. There is a problem. In addition, since the distance may vary depending on an external environment, that is, an environment of a space in which radio waves are transmitted, there is a problem that a user cannot accurately recognize and use the distance.

In addition, when the user is aware of the shock and / or theft and went to the site, the vehicle is a shocker or a vehicle rogue is not in place or there is no evidence that it is difficult to counter the other party.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an anti-theft system and method using a telematics system that determines whether a person or an object when an external shock is detected, and transmits the captured image to a user by photographing the inside of the vehicle with a camera. .

The apparatus of the present invention for achieving the above object; An anti-theft system using a telematics system, comprising: a plurality of digital cameras installed on the outside and inside of a vehicle to capture images of the outside and the inside, and to generate and output image data, and to turn on the digital cameras under predetermined control. Camera driving unit to turn on / off, and to detect the impact of the outside of the vehicle and the opening and closing of the car door, and to determine whether the impact object is an object or a person, and generates and outputs a shock detection signal, a car door open detection signal, an object detection signal, and an interpersonal detection signal. And a telematics terminal for controlling the camera driving unit when the shock detection signal is input, operating the camera, and storing the image data input from the camera and transmitting the image data to the user terminal through a mobile communication network.

Another apparatus of the present invention for achieving the above object; An anti-theft system using a telematics system, comprising: a plurality of digital cameras installed on the outside and inside of a vehicle to capture images of the outside and the inside, and generate and output image data; Camera driving unit for turning off, and sensing unit for detecting the impact of the outside of the vehicle and the opening and closing of the car, and determines whether the impact object is an object or a person, and generates and outputs a shock detection signal, a car door open detection signal, an object detection signal, and an interpersonal detection signal. And a telematics terminal for controlling the camera driver to control the camera driving unit when inputting the opening / closing detection signal of the car door and storing the image data input from the camera and transmitting the image data to the user terminal through a mobile communication network.

The method of the present invention for achieving the above object; In the anti-theft method using a telematics system, a process of setting a vehicle burglar alarm mode according to a user's command, a process of driving an impact detector and a car door open / close detector when the vehicle burglar alarm mode is set, and a shock detection signal If is input, driving the camera outside the vehicle to take a picture of the external situation to generate and store the image data, and transmits the stored image data to the user-side communication terminal.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that in the following description, only parts necessary for understanding the operation according to the present invention will be described, and descriptions of other parts will be omitted so as not to distract from the gist of the present invention.

In the present invention, a telematics system is used. In general, the telematics system may be classified into a telematics terminal installed in a vehicle, a telematics service providing center providing a telematics service and a telematics service, and a subscriber terminal connected through an internet network or the mobile communication network. Specifically, the vehicle telematics system detects a vehicle accident or a vehicle theft by combining a mobile communication method, a location tracking method, and the Internet, guides a vehicle driving route, and provides various other information to a vehicle driver. It is a system. That is, the vehicle telematics system is a system for providing information through a vehicle based on a GPS using a mobile communication system and a satellite positioning system (GPS: Global Positioning System (GPS)) satellite. Accordingly, the vehicle telematics system uses the GPS, the mobile communication network, and the Internet network to provide vehicle drivers with traffic information, coping with emergencies, remote vehicle diagnosis, Internet use (e.g., financial transactions, providing news, and e- Mobile communication services such as e-mail transmission and reception).

1 is a view schematically showing the configuration of a vehicle anti-theft system disposed in a vehicle according to the present invention. A description with reference to FIG. 1 is as follows.

The anti-theft system according to the present invention includes a telematics terminal 201, at least one digital camera 202, a camera driver 203, a vehicle controller 204, and a detector 205.

As described above, the telematics terminal 201 includes a GPS receiver for receiving GPS signals from a GPS satellite and a wireless communication unit for connecting to a mobile communication network to perform the above functions. In particular, according to the present invention, when an alarm signal is generated, image data photographed by the camera is transmitted to a user communication terminal through a wireless communication unit through a mobile communication network.

The digital camera 202 photographs the inside of the vehicle under the control of the camera driver 203, generates image data, and outputs the image data to the telematics terminal 201 through the camera driver 203. In FIG. 1, two digital cameras, that is, a first camera 202-1 and a second camera 202-2, are used. In FIG. 1, a first camera 202-1 is installed on a front panel inside a vehicle, and a second camera 202-2 is installed on a right side of a driver's seat or on a ceiling inside a vehicle. However, the digital camera may be installed at various locations outside the vehicle.

The camera driver 203 controls the photographing direction and photographing on / off of the digital camera 202 under the control of the telematics terminal 201, and provides image data input at the time to the telematics terminal 201. do.

Under the control of the telematics terminal 201, the vehicle controller 204 performs opening / closing control of a car door, acceleration and braking control of a vehicle, gear control, and button control in a vehicle.

The sensing unit 205 is controlled by the telematics terminal 201 and installed on the outside of the vehicle to detect an impact of an object, and to determine whether an object subjected to an impact when detecting the impact is a person or an object. It includes a seal detecting unit, an object detecting unit, an acceleration sensor for detecting the acceleration of the vehicle, and a contact sensor for detecting the closing of the door, and the like, and outputs the sensing result to the telematics terminal 201.

2 is a diagram showing the internal configuration of a vehicle anti-theft system according to the present invention. Hereinafter, each configuration will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

As described above, the detection unit 205 includes an impact detection unit 305, an interpersonal detection unit 306, an object detection unit 307, an acceleration sensor 308, and a car door opening / closing detection unit 309.

The shock detector 305 detects a shock by shock sensors installed outside the vehicle, and generates a shock signal and outputs the shock signal to the telematics terminal 302 when the shock is greater than a predetermined intensity.

The person detecting unit 306 includes a magnetic sensor outside or inside the vehicle, detects a living creature and a person in the magnetic field, generates a person detecting signal, and outputs the person detecting signal to the telematics terminal 201. The magnetic sensor converts a magnetic field into an electric quantity and outputs it. When a person enters the magnetic field region, the magnetic sensor detects a change in the magnetic field due to a change in the medium of the magnetic field to detect whether the object is a human. In addition, the cause detection unit 306 may detect whether a person using a heat detection sensor.

The object detecting unit 307 measures the presence or absence of an object that may be used as an infrared sensor, a photo sensor, an optical sensor, and the distance to the object, and generates an object detection signal and / or distance data and outputs the generated object signal to the telematics terminal.

The acceleration detector 309 measures the speed of the vehicle, generates speed data, and outputs the speed data to the telematics terminal 201.

The car door opening / closing detection unit 310 may be a contact sensor photo sensor or the like. When the car door is opened, the car door opening detecting unit 310 generates a car door detection signal and outputs the detected signal to the telematics terminal 201.

The vehicle controller 204 includes a door controller 311, an acceleration / braking controller 313, a gear control 315, and a button controller 317.

The door control unit 311 receives a car door control signal from the telematics terminal 201 and locks and unlocks the car door. That is, when the car door is not locked, the car door control signal is input from the telematics terminal to lock or unlock the car door.

The acceleration / braking control unit 313 increases or decreases the speed of the vehicle by receiving the speed control signal from the telematics terminal 201.

The gear controller 315 receives a gear control signal from the telematics terminal 201 and controls the number of gears.

The acceleration / braking control unit 313 and the gear control unit 313 are interlocked and controlled.

The button controller 317 receives a button control signal from the telematics terminal 201 and controls the use of various buttons in the vehicle.

3 is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a telematics terminal applied according to the present invention. The configuration of the telematics terminal 201 will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

The telematics terminal 10 includes a telematics control unit 11, a storage unit 12, a key input unit 13, a GPS receiver 17, a location information processor 18, a map data database 21, a wireless communication unit 23, It consists of the display part 24.

The telematics control unit 11 controls the overall operation of the telematics terminal and controls the direction and on / off of the digital camera 202 by controlling the camera driver 203 according to the present invention. In addition, the telematics control unit 11 generates object / personal information according to the signal output from the object detecting unit 307 and the person detecting unit 306, and together with the image data output from the digital camera 202, the wireless communication unit ( 23) to the mobile communication network. The storage unit 12 includes an area for storing a control program for controlling the operation of the telematics terminal, an area for temporarily storing data generated during the execution of the control program, and an area for storing user data. The input unit 13 may be a key input device, a touch pad module, and a voice recognition module. The input unit 13 generates command data by the user and outputs the command data to the telematics control unit 11.

The vehicle diagnostic unit 14 detects a state signal of each component of the vehicle from a plurality of sensors located at components outside or inside the vehicle and inputs the state signal to the telematics control unit 11. The vehicle diagnosis unit 14 detects shock detection, personal and object detection, vehicle speed, and whether the vehicle door is opened or closed through the detection unit 205 connected to the plurality of sensors and outputs the detected vehicle to the telematics control unit 11. In addition, the vehicle diagnosis unit 14 may be directly connected to the plurality of sensors to detect the impact detection, the detection of people and objects, the vehicle speed and the opening and closing of the car door, and output the same to the telematics control unit 11. In addition, the vehicle diagnosis unit 14 detects theft using the sensors under the control of the telematics control unit 11. That is, when the car door, the window, and the trunk are opened in a closed state, the car door, the window, the trunk, and the like are detected and theft detection signal is generated and output to the telematics controller 11.

Under the control of the telematics control unit 11, the display unit 24 displays various information such as the operation mode and state of the telematics and the state of the vehicle in graphic or text. The display unit 24 may use a liquid crystal display (LCD) or the like.

The map database 21 stores map data including roads, buildings, and the like for each location. The GPS receiver 17 receives location information from the plurality of satellites 60 and outputs the location information to the location information processor 18. The location information processor 18 receives the location information from the GPS receiver 17 and reads the map data of the location of the received location information from the map database 21 and outputs it to the telematics controller 11. .

The wireless communication unit 23 communicates with a mobile communication network and displays the image data output from the digital camera 202 and the object / personal information generated by the telematics control unit 11 according to the present invention through the mobile communication network. Provided by communication terminal.

4 is a view showing a vehicle theft prevention method using telematics applied according to the present invention. A description with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4 is as follows.

The telematics control unit 11 sets the vehicle burglar alarm mode in step 401 when the user inputs the vehicle burglar alarm mode setting command. When the vehicle burglar alarm mode is set, the telematics control unit 11 drives the shock detector 305 and the car door open / close detector 310 in step 403. When the shock detector 305 or the car door open / close detector 310 is driven in step 403, the telematics controller 11 detects whether the shock detection signal is input from the shock detector 305 in steps 405 and 406. It is checked whether the car door open / close detection signal is input from the unit 310. When the shock detection signal is input in step 405, the telematics control unit 11 proceeds to step 407 to drive the person detection unit 306 and the object detection unit 307. After the driving, the telematics control unit 11 proceeds to step 409 and determines whether the object subjected to the impact is a person. If the object is a person, the telematics control unit 11 proceeds to step 411 to control the camera driving unit 203 to turn on the digital camera 202, photograph the outside of the vehicle, and proceed to step 415 to store the captured image data. The image data is transmitted through the wireless communication unit 23.

On the other hand, when the car door opening / closing detection signal is input in step 406, the telematics control unit 11 proceeds directly to step 411 to control the camera driver 203 to turn on the digital camera 202, to photograph the inside of the vehicle, and to step 415. Proceeding to store the captured image data and transmits the image data through the wireless communication unit (23).

In step 409, it is determined whether the person is a person, but the camera may be driven regardless of the person. When the shock detection signal is input, the outside of the vehicle is photographed, and when the door is opened, the inside of the vehicle is photographed. Alternatively, you can capture both internal and external images regardless of the type of detection signal.

The object detecting unit 307 may determine whether the object is detected or approached by measuring the distance of the object regardless of whether the object is an object or an adult, and the person detecting unit 306 may determine whether the object is a person. Can be determined. In addition, the determined information, that is, whether a person or an object, may be notified to the user through a mobile communication network together with the image data transmission.

The present invention as described above has the advantage that the vehicle owner can detect in real time whether the vehicle is stolen or impact.

In addition, since the present invention can recognize whether the vehicle is stolen or impacted through the mobile communication network even if the user is far from the owned vehicle, the user can freely view the work regardless of the distance to the vehicle.

In addition, the user has the advantage that it is easy to secure evidence for the impactor or vehicle rogue.

Claims (9)

In the anti-theft system using a telematics system, A plurality of digital cameras installed on the outside and inside of the vehicle to take images of the outside and the inside and generate and output image data; A camera driver for turning on / off the digital camera under predetermined control; A sensing unit which detects an impact outside the vehicle and opening / closing a car door and determines whether an impact object is an object or an adult, and generates and outputs an impact detection signal, a car door opening detection signal, an object detection signal, and an interpersonal detection signal; When the shock detection signal is input, the camera is operated by controlling the camera, and the image is stored in the telematics terminal using a telematics terminal for storing the image data input from the camera and transmits to the user terminal through a mobile communication network Prevention system. The method of claim 1, Theft prevention system using a telematics system, characterized in that the camera is installed outside. The method of claim 1, The anti-theft system using a telematics system, characterized in that the telematics terminal transmits the information indicating whether the object collided with the person or the object with the image data to the user-side communication terminal. In the anti-theft system using a telematics system, A plurality of digital cameras installed on the outside and inside of the vehicle to take images of the outside and the inside and generate and output image data; A camera driver for turning on / off the digital camera under predetermined control; A sensing unit which detects an impact outside the vehicle and opening / closing a car door and determines whether an impact object is an object or an adult, and generates and outputs an impact detection signal, a car door opening detection signal, an object detection signal, and an interpersonal detection signal; A telematics system comprising a telematics terminal for controlling the camera driving unit to input the opening / closing detection signal of the car and operating the camera and storing image data input from the camera and transmitting the image data to the user terminal through a mobile communication network. Anti-theft system used. The method of claim 4, wherein Theft prevention system using a telematics system, characterized in that the camera is installed inside. The method of claim 4, wherein The anti-theft system using a telematics system, characterized in that the telematics terminal transmits the information indicating whether the object collided with the person or the object with the image data to the user-side communication terminal. In the anti-theft method using a telematics system, Setting the vehicle burglar alarm mode by a user command; Driving the shock detector and the car door open / close detector when the vehicle burglar alarm mode is set; When the shock detection signal is input, driving a camera outside the vehicle to capture an external situation and generating and storing image data; The anti-theft method using a telematics system, characterized in that the stored image data is transmitted to a user terminal. The method of claim 7, wherein When the shock detection signal is input, the anti-theft method using a telematics system, characterized in that further comprising the step of determining whether the object subjected to the impact. The method of claim 8, The anti-theft method using a telematics system, characterized in that for transmitting the image data transmitted to the user side communication terminal information on whether the object subjected to the impact is an object or an object.

Images