KR20160073658A - System, obd device and computer program for providing diagnosis service of vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a vehicle diagnosis service providing system capable of diagnosing a malfunction of a vehicle by using a telephone conversation method which is familiar to a customer. The vehicle diagnosis service providing system comprises: a telephone terminal; and an on-board diagnostics (OBD) terminal loaded in the vehicle. The telephone terminal is connected to the OBD terminal by using a telephone application of the terminal, receives a diagnosis request of the vehicle as a voice, and transmits the diagnosis request of the vehicle to the OBD terminal. The OBD terminal provides a diagnosis result regarding the diagnosis request to the telephone terminal.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a vehicle diagnostic service providing system, an OBD terminal, and a computer program,

The present invention relates to a vehicle diagnostic service providing system, an OBD terminal, and a computer program.

OBD (On-Board Diagnostics) is an electronic diagnostic system for vehicle measurement and control. It provides information on the main system of the vehicle transmitted from the sensors attached to the vehicle to the ECU (electronic control unit) Make it visible on the car's console or external device. The OBD device itself includes wireless communication functions such as WiFi and Bluetooth, and is generally used in connection with an external device such as a smart terminal or a display device.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2008-0081215 related to a method of providing a diagnostic service of a vehicle using the OBD is an invention related to a method of diagnosing a vehicle fault using a network, The device converts the vehicle state information data into signals that can be wirelessly transmitted, wirelessly transmits the vehicle state information data that has undergone the signal processing to the PC via the antenna, and the PC transmits the collected vehicle state information data to the server on the web Discloses a configuration for analyzing data for fault diagnosis and notifying the registered users of the data of the analysis results in real time on-line.

OBD terminal, and computer program capable of diagnosing a vehicle failure by using a call method familiar to a customer. OBD terminal, and computer program that can diagnose a vehicle failure simply and easily through communication with a terminal.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for providing a diagnostic service for a vehicle, the system including a telephone terminal and an OBD terminal mounted on the vehicle, The OBD terminal accesses the OBD terminal using a call application of the telephone terminal, receives a diagnosis request of the vehicle by voice and transmits the diagnosis request to the OBD terminal, and the OBD terminal provides diagnosis results of the diagnosis request to the telephone terminal Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 > a < / RTI >

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an OBD terminal for providing a diagnostic service for a vehicle, comprising: a connection attempt detection unit for detecting a connection attempt from the telephone terminal to the OBD terminal; And a diagnosis providing unit for receiving a diagnosis request of the vehicle from the terminal and providing a diagnosis result of the request to the telephone terminal by voice, wherein the connection attempt is a call connection to the telephone number of the OBD terminal To the OBD terminal.

Yet another embodiment of the present invention is a computer program stored in a medium for providing a diagnostic service of a vehicle in combination with a telephone terminal, the telephone terminal comprising: A computer program for connecting to an OBD terminal, receiving a diagnosis request of the vehicle by voice, transmitting the diagnosis request to the OBD terminal, and receiving a diagnosis result of the request from the OBD terminal by voice.

The above-described task solution is merely exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention. In addition to the exemplary embodiments described above, there may be additional embodiments described in the drawings and the detailed description of the invention.

According to any one of the above-mentioned objects of the present invention, it is possible to provide a vehicle diagnostic service providing system, an OBD terminal, and a computer program capable of diagnosing a vehicle failure using a call method familiar to a customer. It is possible to provide a vehicle diagnostic service providing system, an OBD terminal, and a computer program that can easily and easily diagnose a failure of a vehicle through a call with a terminal.

1 is a configuration diagram of a vehicle diagnostic service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a configuration diagram of an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a vehicle diagnostic service in a telephone terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a vehicle diagnostic service in an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart showing a method for providing anomaly information when a vehicle abnormality occurs in an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a vehicle diagnostic service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a view for explaining a telephone number of an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . Also, when an element is referred to as "including" an element, it is to be understood that the element may include other elements as well as other elements, And does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

In this specification, the term " part " includes a unit realized by hardware, a unit realized by software, and a unit realized by using both. Further, one unit may be implemented using two or more hardware, or two or more units may be implemented by one hardware.

In this specification, some of the operations or functions described as being performed by the terminal or the device may be performed in the server connected to the terminal or the device instead. Similarly, some of the operations or functions described as being performed by the server may also be performed on a terminal or device connected to the server.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram of a vehicle diagnostic service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a vehicle diagnostic service providing system 1 may include a telephone terminal 100 and an OBD terminal 200 mounted on a vehicle. The telephone terminal 100 and the OBD terminal 200 shown in FIG. 1 illustratively show the components that can be controlled by the vehicle diagnostic service providing system 1. As shown in FIG.

Each component of the vehicle diagnostic service providing system 1 of FIG. 1 is generally connected via a network. A network refers to a connection structure in which information can be exchanged between nodes such as terminals and servers. An example of such a network is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Internet, LAN Network, wireless LAN, WAN, PAN, 3G, 4G, LTE, and the like.

Hereinafter, each component of the vehicle diagnostic service providing system 1 will be described in detail.

The telephone terminal 100 may be a Personal Communication System (PCS), a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), a Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), a Personal Handyphone System (PHS), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), an International Mobile Telecommunication 2000, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) -2000, W-CDMA (W-CDMA), Wireless Broadband Internet (Wibro), 3G, 4G terminal, smart phone .

The telephone terminal 100 can register the telephone number of the OBD terminal 200 in the telephone book of the telephone terminal 100. [ The telephone number of the OBD terminal 200 may be configured by a communication type between the telephone terminal 100 and the OBD terminal 200, a vehicle identification number (VIN) of the vehicle, and a terminal number of the OBD terminal. The telephone number of the OBD terminal 200 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

The telephone terminal 100 can attempt to make a call connection with the OBD terminal 200 using the call application of the telephone terminal 100. [ The telephone terminal 100 can attempt to connect with the OBD terminal 200 by inputting the telephone number of the OBD terminal 200 and selecting the call button.

The connection between the telephone terminal 100 and the OBD terminal 200 may be performed through Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G / 4G, or the like, but is not limited thereto.

The telephone terminal 100 can receive the connection result from the OBD terminal 200. [ The telephone terminal 100 can output a call success tone when it is connected to the OBD terminal 200 and can output a call failure guidance tone if the connection with the OBD terminal 200 fails.

When the telephone terminal 100 is connected to the OBD terminal 200, the telephone terminal 100 can receive a diagnosis request of the vehicle from the user by voice and transmit the input diagnostic request to the OBD terminal 200. [ The telephone terminal 100 can transmit diagnostic requests such as "vehicle diagnosis "," driving habit ", "fuel economy "," start driving ", etc. to the OBD terminal in the form of voice data.

The telephone terminal 100 can receive the diagnosis result for the diagnosis request from the OBD terminal 200 in the form of voice data. The telephone terminal 100 can output the received diagnosis result as a voice and provide it to the user.

The telephone terminal 100 can receive a call connection signal (incoming call) from the OBD terminal 200 while the vehicle is in operation. When the call connection signal is received, the telephone terminal 100 outputs a ringing tone to the user, It can notify that the call connection signal (incoming call) has been received.

When the call connection signal from the OBD terminal 200 is received in the telephone terminal 100, the user can select a call button and connect (connect call) with the OBD terminal 200. [ The telephone terminal 100 receives the abnormality information of the vehicle from the OBD terminal 200, outputs the abnormality information of the vehicle, a measure for the vehicle, and the like to the user and provides it to the user.

The phone terminal 100 can receive the vehicle driving information from the OBD terminal 200 and can update the phone book picture of the phone number of the OBD terminal 200 using the received driving information. In this case, the driving information received from the OBD terminal 200 may include driving time, distance fuel consumption, habit, failure information, and the like. The telephone terminal 100 can image the received driving information in a graph or the like, and update the photograph or thumbnail image of the phone book.

The OBD terminal 200 is mounted on a vehicle, and can connect with the telephone terminal 100 to provide information on the vehicle. The OBD terminal 200 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

2 is a configuration diagram of an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2, the OBD terminal 200 may include, but is not limited to, a connection attempt detection unit 220, a diagnosis providing unit 240, a vehicle information sensing unit 260, and a travel information generating unit 280 .

Hereinafter, each component of the OBD terminal 200 will be described in detail.

The connection attempt detection unit 220 can detect a connection attempt from the telephone terminal. Detection of a connection attempt can be made by receiving an access signal transmitted via Bluetooth or WiFi. When the connection attempt detection unit 220 detects a connection attempt from the telephone terminal, the OBD terminal 200 can connect a call connection with the telephone terminal.

When the diagnosis provider 240 is connected to the telephone terminal, the diagnosis provider 240 receives the diagnosis request of the vehicle from the telephone terminal by voice, generates a diagnosis result for the diagnosis request, or retrieves the diagnosis result from the stored diagnosis result and provides it to the telephone terminal can do.

When the abnormal information of the vehicle is detected by the vehicle information sensing unit 260, the diagnostic unit 240 tries to establish a call connection to the telephone terminal. When the telephone terminal receives a call and is connected to the telephone, .

The vehicle information sensing unit 260 may sense abnormal information of the vehicle during operation of the vehicle. When detecting the abnormal information of the vehicle, the vehicle information sensing unit 260 may notify the diagnostic unit 240 that abnormal information of the vehicle is detected. The vehicle information sensing unit 260 can sense not only the abnormal information of the vehicle but also the driving information such as the start of the vehicle operation and the end of the operation.

The driving information generating unit 280 can generate driving information of the vehicle. The driving information generating unit 280 may generate the driving information of the vehicle and provide it to the telephone terminal when the vehicle information sensing unit 260 detects the termination of the driving of the vehicle.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a vehicle diagnostic service in a telephone terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, in step S320, the telephone terminal connects to the OBD terminal. The telephone terminal can connect to the OBD terminal by attempting to make a call connection to the telephone number of the OBD terminal registered in the phone book. When the telephone terminal is connected to the OBD terminal, the telephone terminal outputs a call connection success tone, and if the connection is unsuccessful, the telephone failure guidance tone can be output.

In step S340, the telephone terminal receives a diagnosis request of the vehicle. The telephone terminal can receive a voice request for a diagnosis request of the vehicle from the user. In step S360, the telephone terminal transmits the diagnostic request input by the user to the OBD terminal. The diagnostic request can be, for example, "vehicle diagnosis", "driving habit", "fuel economy", and the like.

In step S380, the telephone terminal can receive the diagnostic result from the OBD terminal. The telephone terminal can output the received diagnosis result by voice and provide it to the user.

The method of providing the vehicle diagnostic service in the telephone terminal is not limited to the above-described step, and may include additional steps or may be performed in separate steps.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a vehicle diagnostic service in an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, in step S420, the OBD terminal detects a connection attempt of the telephone terminal and connects to the telephone terminal. In step S440, the OBD terminal receives the diagnosis request of the vehicle from the telephone terminal, and provides the diagnostic result of the diagnosis request received in step S460. The OBD terminal can generate a diagnosis result for a diagnosis request or search for it from a previously generated diagnosis result.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an abnormal information providing method in an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 5, in step S520, the OBD terminal detects abnormal information of the vehicle. If abnormal information of the vehicle is detected, the OBD terminal attempts to establish a call connection to the telephone terminal in step S540. When the call with the telephone terminal is connected, the OBD terminal provides the vehicle information to the telephone terminal in step S560.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a vehicle diagnostic service according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 6, in step S600, the phone terminal stores the phone number of the OBD terminal in the phone book of the phone terminal. The telephone number of the OBD terminal will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

 7 is a view for explaining a telephone number of an OBD terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 7, the telephone number of the OBD terminal may include, but is not limited to, the communication type between the OBD terminal and the telephone terminal, the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) of the vehicle, and the terminal number of the OBD terminal. VIN is the identification number of the vehicle which can be obtained through OBD, and it can obtain the unique number of the country of manufacture, automobile manufacturer, yearly model, model lineup, manufacturing factory, Reference numeral 720 denotes a VIN format. The terminal number of the OBD terminal may be any one of a MAC address, a BD (Bluetooth Device) address, and a serial number, but is not limited thereto. Reference numeral 740 denotes an example of the telephone number of the OBD terminal stored in the phone book.

Returning to FIG. 6, in step S620, the telephone terminal attempts to connect to the OBD terminal by connecting the call to the telephone number of the OBD terminal, and the OBD terminal can transmit the connection result to the telephone terminal. When the telephone terminal is connected to the OBD terminal, the telephone terminal outputs a call success tone, and if the connection is unsuccessful, it outputs a call failure announcement tone. In step S640, the telephone terminal transmits a diagnosis request such as "start driving" and "vehicle diagnosis " by voice, and the OBD terminal provides a diagnosis result of the received diagnosis request by voice.

If the OBD terminal detects an abnormality of the vehicle during operation of the vehicle, the OBD terminal attempts to establish a call connection to the telephone terminal in step S660. When the OBD terminal and the telephone terminal are connected in a call connection, the OBD terminal transmits the vehicle abnormality information by voice, and the telephone terminal can provide the user with the abnormality information of the vehicle and the measures for the abnormal situation, such as nearby repair shops.

Thereafter, when the operation of the vehicle is terminated, the OBD terminal recognizes that the operation of the vehicle has been terminated by recognizing the engine off or the like in step S680, and can transmit the operation information to the telephone terminal. In this case, the driving information may include, but is not limited to, driving time, distance, fuel consumption, habit, and failure information. The phone terminal can update the phone book photograph or the thumbnail image of the phone number of the OBD terminal stored in the phone book using the travel information received from the OBD terminal. At this time, the driving information can be visualized by a graph or the like, and can be updated, for example, in a phonebook photograph.

The method for providing a car diagnostic service according to an embodiment of the present invention may also be realized in the form of a recording medium including a program stored in a medium executed by the computer or an instruction executable by the computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, the computer-readable medium can include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes any information delivery media, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transport mechanism.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

100: telephone terminal
200: OBD terminal

Claims (15)

A system for providing a diagnostic service of a vehicle,
A telephone terminal; And
An OBD (On-Board Diagnostic) terminal
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The telephone terminal connects to the OBD terminal using the call application of the telephone terminal, receives a diagnosis request of the vehicle by voice and transmits it to the OBD terminal,
Wherein the OBD terminal provides diagnosis results for the diagnosis request to the telephone terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the OBD terminal detects abnormal information of the vehicle, tries to establish a call connection to the telephone terminal when the abnormal information is detected, and provides the abnormal information to the telephone terminal through voice
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the OBD terminal has a telephone number including at least one of a communication type of the connection, a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of the vehicle, and a terminal number of the OBD terminal,
Wherein the telephone terminal registers the telephone number in a phone book of the telephone terminal.
The method of claim 3,
The OBD terminal generates driving information of the vehicle and transmits the driving information to the telephone terminal,
Wherein the telephone terminal updates the received driving information with a phonebook photograph of the telephone number.
1. An OBD terminal for providing a diagnostic service of a vehicle,
A connection attempt detection unit for detecting a connection attempt from the telephone terminal to the OBD terminal;
A diagnosis unit connected to the telephone terminal for receiving a diagnosis request of the vehicle from the telephone terminal by voice and for providing a diagnosis result of the request to the telephone terminal by voice;
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And the connection attempt is that the telephone terminal tries to establish a call connection to the telephone number of the OBD terminal.
6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the telephone number includes at least one of a communication type of the call connection, a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of the vehicle, and a terminal number of the OBD terminal.
The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the communication type comprises one or more of Bluetooth, WiFi and wired connection.
The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the terminal number is one of a MAC address, a BD (Bluetooth Device) address, and a serial number.
6. The method of claim 5,
A vehicle information sensing unit for sensing abnormal information of the vehicle,
Further comprising:
Wherein when the vehicle information detecting unit detects the abnormality information of the vehicle, the diagnostic providing unit attempts to make a call connection to the telephone terminal and provides the abnormal information to the telephone terminal by voice.
10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the diagnosis providing unit provides a voice guidance to the vehicle regarding the abnormal information of the vehicle.
10. The method of claim 9,
A driving information generating unit for generating driving information of the vehicle,
Further comprising:
Wherein when the vehicle information sensing unit senses an end of operation of the vehicle, the travel information generating unit generates the travel information and transmits the generated travel information to the telephone terminal.
A computer program stored in a medium for providing a diagnostic service of a vehicle in combination with a telephone terminal,
The telephone terminal,
Accessing an OBD terminal mounted on the vehicle using a call application of the telephone terminal,
Receives a diagnosis request of the vehicle by voice and transmits it to the OBD terminal,
And to receive a diagnosis result of the request from the OBD terminal by voice.
13. The method of claim 12,
The telephone terminal,
And registering the telephone number of the OBD terminal in the telephone book of the telephone terminal,
Wherein the telephone number comprises at least one of a communication type of a call connection, a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of the vehicle, and a terminal number of the OBD terminal.
14. The method of claim 13,
The telephone terminal,
Receives driving information of the vehicle from the OBD terminal,
And updates the driving information to a phonebook picture of the telephone number.
15. The method of claim 14,
Wherein the driving information includes at least one of driving time, driving distance, fuel consumption, driving habit, and malfunction information of the vehicle.

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