KR20170028767A - Information providing apparatus of accident dangerous situation of vehicle and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing an accident risk situation information of a vehicle, and an apparatus for providing accident risk situation information of a vehicle according to the present invention comprises: an image information acquiring unit for acquiring roadway image information at the time of occurrence of an abnormal condition of the vehicle; A vehicle location information providing unit for providing location information of the vehicle in an abnormal state of the vehicle; An OBD-II terminal connected to obtain vehicle information for improving the running safety of the vehicle; A smart device receiving at least one acquisition information of the image acquisition unit, the vehicle position information providing unit, and the OBD-II terminal; And a driving safety management system for determining whether or not the vehicle is in an abnormal state according to at least one of the acquired information received by wireless communication from the smart device and sharing the determination result with neighboring vehicles.
According to the present invention, when an abnormal state of a vehicle occurs, it is determined whether an abnormal state or an emergency state is present through video information, location information, and vehicle information, and then shared with neighboring vehicles to induce safe driving according to an accident risk situation have. In addition, the present invention has an effect of inducing safe driving through providing detailed situation information on a place where an accident risk is high, and reducing the social payment cost due to the reduction of the traffic accident rate.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus,

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing information on an accident risk situation of a vehicle, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for providing information on an accident risk situation to a nearby vehicle using active safety system information in the vehicle.

Recently, an active safety system for improving the safety of a vehicle has been rapidly developed and commercialized.

Furthermore, as described below, the system is required to be mounted on the bench or adopted as a main item for evaluating the performance of a new car.

- Mandatory installation of airbags (mandatory taxi passenger airbag installation from August 2014)

- Mandatory installation of anti-wheel braking system (ABS)

- Installation of ESP, ESC, and VDC is mandatory from January 2014

- Tire pressure alarm system (TPMS) is mandatory from January 2014

- Emergency automatic brake system (AEB) installation will be included in K-NCAP from 2015

- Optional electronic control suspension (CDC, ECS)

Furthermore, the installation of the OBD-II is mandatory in January 2014, and the operational status of the system supporting the driving safety and the related sensor information are provided through OBD-II.

Depending on the developer, the operating conditions of the active safety system may be somewhat different, but the ultimate goal of such a system is being developed in order to improve driving safety against abnormal conditions between the vehicle and the environment.

The technology related to the device for improving the driving safety has been proposed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2009-0040622 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-0112932.

Hereinafter, a vehicle accident information providing method and apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Nos. 2009-0040622 and 2005-0112932 and a method of providing moving object accident information using a mobile communication terminal will be briefly described below.

1 is a conceptual diagram of an apparatus for providing vehicle accident information in Patent Publication No. 2009-0040622 (hereinafter referred to as "Prior Art 1"). As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus for providing vehicle accident information of the prior art 1 includes a storage unit 150 for storing information necessary for analyzing an accident situation, (120) for storing driving information of the vehicle in the storage unit (150) when an accident occurs in the vehicle, and a driving information collecting unit And a vehicle information collecting unit 110 for collecting information and storing the collected information in the storage unit 150. [

However, the apparatus for providing vehicle accident information according to the prior art 1 collects information on nearby vehicles through communication with neighboring vehicles in the event of a vehicle accident, stores them in a black box for vehicles, and does not transmit accident information to neighboring vehicles. There was a problem that the recognition of the situation was difficult.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an ECU system of a mobile communication terminal and a moving object in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2005-0112932 (hereinafter referred to as "Prior Art 2"). 2, the mobile object ECU system 100 of the related art 2 includes a vehicle speed sensor 10 for sensing the traveling speed of the moving object, a brake engagement sensor 11 for sensing the operating state of the brake pedal, A steering wheel sensor 12 for sensing the steering angle of the steering wheel, an airbag sensor 13 for sensing the operating state of the airbag, a speaker for outputting the other party's voice or the like transmitted through the handsfree 17, A microphone 15 for inputting driver's voice or the like to the mobile communication terminal 200 through the handsfree 17 and a result detected by each of the sensors 10 to 13, And a handsfree 17 for connecting the mobile communication terminal 200 to the ECU system 100. The control unit 16 controls the transmission of the mobile communication terminal 200 to the mobile communication terminal 200.

However, the moving object ECU system 100 according to the prior art 2 is a technology for providing information on the moving object peripheral circumstances before and after the occurrence of a moving object accident. As in the prior art 1, since accident information is not transmitted to neighboring vehicles after occurrence of an accident, , There is a problem in that it is difficult to recognize the accident situation in the surrounding vehicles.

KR 2009-0040622 A GB 2005-0112932 A

An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an information processing apparatus, The present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing information on an accident risk situation of a vehicle that can induce safe driving according to the recognition of a dangerous situation.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing apparatus including an image information obtaining unit that obtains image information of a traveling road when an abnormal condition of a vehicle occurs; A vehicle location information providing unit for providing location information of the vehicle in an abnormal state of the vehicle; An OBD-II terminal connected to obtain vehicle information for improving the running safety of the vehicle; A smart device receiving at least one acquisition information of the image acquisition unit, the vehicle position information providing unit, and the OBD-II terminal; And a running safety management system for determining whether the vehicle is in an abnormal state according to at least one of the acquired information received from the smart device through wireless communication and sharing the determination result with neighboring vehicles, And using the accident risk situation information providing device.

The image information obtaining unit may be a smart device or a built-in camera for a vehicle black box.

The vehicle location information providing unit may be a smart device or a GPS built in navigation.

In addition, the vehicle information received by the OBD-II terminal in the present invention may be active safety system operation information and vehicle sensor information.

In addition, the vehicle information in the present invention may be applied to various types of vehicles such as an airbag deployment signal, a wheel lock braking system (ABS), a body posture control system (ESP, ESC, VDC), a tire air pressure alarm system (TPMS), an emergency automatic braking system ), And electronically controlled suspension (CDC, ECS).

Further, the running safety management system of the present invention can be updated by converting the input information by the active safety system into a DB.

In addition, the present invention provides a method for controlling a vehicle, comprising: obtaining at least one of image information, position information, and vehicle information when an abnormal condition of a vehicle occurs; Receiving at least one acquisition information of the image information, the position information, and the vehicle information at a smart device; Determining whether the vehicle is in an abnormal state in the driving safety management system according to at least one of the image information, the position information, and the vehicle information received from the smart device through wireless communication; And a step in which the result of the determination is shared with the neighboring vehicle through the driving safety management system, using the in-vehicle active safety system information.

In addition, the sharing of the determination result in the present invention may include: setting a virtual safety line based on the map after checking the abnormal situation through the driving safety management system; Selecting whether or not to request status information on a forward road in the virtual safe-passage passing vehicle; And providing abnormal situation information when requesting the situation information on the road ahead.

The step of determining whether or not the abnormal situation in the present invention is performed may include determining at least one of a frontal collision risk (or a sudden collision) situation, a secondary (or side) collision risk situation, a road slip situation, It can be judged.

In the present invention, it is determined that the collision danger (or rapid braking) situation is an emergency situation when an airbag deployment signal is output and it is determined that the vehicle is a stopped vehicle due to an accident. If it is determined that it is caused by the weather or the front vehicle, it is determined that the vehicle is in an abnormal condition. If it is determined that the AEB operation signal is outputted and the vehicle is in a sudden braking condition, it can be determined that the vehicle is in an abnormal condition.

In addition, the secondary (or side) collision risk situation judgment in the present invention can be judged to be an emergency or an abnormal situation through the presence or absence of the ESC operation signal when the tire damage status signal through the TPMS is output.

If the ESC operation signal is output and it is judged that the vehicle is in a road slip situation using weather information, it is determined that the vehicle is in an abnormal state, and the ABS operation signal is output and is generated by the weather or the front vehicle It can be judged that it is an abnormal situation.

Also, in the present invention, it is possible to determine the recommended traveling speed when the ESC operation signal is output and it is determined that the vehicle is in the emergency situation using the road topography information.

In addition, in the present invention, it is possible to judge that the road condition is abnormal if the vertical acceleration information of the CDC is outputted and it is judged that the road surface is damaged.

According to the present invention, when an abnormal state of a vehicle occurs, it is determined whether an abnormal state or an emergency state is present through video information, location information, and vehicle information, and then shared with neighboring vehicles to induce safe driving according to an accident risk situation have.

In addition, the present invention has an effect of inducing safe driving through providing detailed situation information on a place where an accident risk is high, and reducing the social payment cost due to the reduction of the traffic accident rate.

1 is a conceptual diagram of an apparatus for providing vehicle accident information according to the prior art 1. Fig.
2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an ECU system of a mobile communication terminal and a moving object according to a conventional art 2;
3 is a schematic view showing an accident risk situation information providing device for a vehicle according to the present invention.
4 is a block diagram illustrating a method for providing information on an accident risk situation of a vehicle according to the present invention.
5 is a block diagram showing a configuration step of subdividing the determination result sharing step in the accident risk situation information providing method of the vehicle according to the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a schematic view showing a state in which an abnormality is determined in a method for providing information on an accident risk situation of a vehicle according to the present invention, and a determination result is shared with neighboring vehicles.

The terms or words used in the present specification and claims are intended to mean that the inventive concept of the present invention is in accordance with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that the inventor can appropriately define the concept of the term in order to explain its invention in the best way Should be interpreted as a concept.

Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a method of constructing spatial information using an omnidirectional image according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an accident risk situation information providing apparatus for a vehicle according to the present invention.

2, an apparatus 100 for providing an accident risk information of a vehicle according to the present invention includes an image information obtaining unit 110, an OBD-II terminal 120, a vehicle location information providing unit 130, a smart device 140, And a driving safety management system 150.

The image information obtaining unit 110 obtains the image information of the driving road for the corresponding time in the event of an abnormal condition of the vehicle as one or more continuous photographs, and a built-in camera such as a smart device or a vehicle black box is applied thereto .

In this case, the abnormal condition means a state in which the road surface is slippery or broken by the ice sheet, or a sudden braking state of the front vehicle, and a situation where an accident has occurred and the airbag is deployed is called an emergency situation.

The OBD-II terminal 120 is a connector terminal electrically connected to acquire vehicle information for improving the running safety of the vehicle. The OBD-II terminal 120 is used to detect whether the active safety system is operating and related sensor information .

Here, OBD-II (On-Board Diagnostic version II) is an exhaust gas self-diagnosis device, and it is obligatory to install it according to the type of vehicle, and operation information of the system supporting the driving safety and related sensor information are provided through it.

The vehicle information received by the OBD-II terminal 120 is active safety system operation information and vehicle sensor information, and includes an airbag deployment signal, a wheel-locking braking device (ABS), a body posture control device (ESP, ESC , VDC, Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS), Emergency Automatic Brake System (AEB), Electronic Control Suspension (CDC, ECS) and so on.

Here, the types of active safety systems include ABS, electronic control suspension (CDC, ECS) and emergency automatic brake system (AEB), and the types of vehicle sensors include vehicle speed, yaw rate, Steering angle, vertical acceleration, tire pressure [tire air pressure alarm (TPMS)], lateral offset, etc. may not be all provided depending on the configuration of the installed system.

The vehicle location information providing unit 130 provides location information of a vehicle in an abnormal state of the vehicle through latitude and longitude, and a GPS (Global Positioning System) embedded in a smart device, navigation, or the like is applied thereto.

The smart device 140 receives the acquisition information including the image information by the image information acquisition unit 110, the vehicle information by the OBD-II terminal 120, and the location information by the vehicle location information providing unit 130 This applies to smartphones or tablet PCs.

That is, the smart device 140 acquires the image information of the corresponding time based on the abnormal situation determination technique, and then transmits the image information, the information used for the abnormal situation determination, and the GPS information to the driving safety management system 150, .

Furthermore, since the smart device 140 includes a vision sensor and a GPS, the smart device 140 collectively acquires active safety system related information, image information, and location information.

Meanwhile, the smart device 140 transmits / receives information to / from the driving safety management system 150 through wireless communication, for example, a 3G / LTE or LTE-A wireless mobile communication standard when an abnormal situation occurs.

The driving safety management system 150 comprehensively analyzes the information using the image information, the location information, and the vehicle information received from the smart device 140 via the wireless communication, After providing the information about the abnormal situation, it is determined whether or not the vehicle is abnormal, and the determination result is shared with the surrounding vehicles.

Particularly, the driving safety management system 150 converts the input information of the active safety system among the vehicle information received by the OBD-II terminal 120 into a DB, maps the input information in the driving safety management system 150 And is updated.

Further, the running safety management system 150 sets up a map-based virtual safety line, and provides abnormal situation information to the information requesting vehicle (virtual safety line passing vehicle) .

At this time, the virtual safety line is set based on the speed of the trailing vehicle V2 in the driving safety management system 150 and the position where the abnormal condition occurs (for example, the ice sheet formation position).

4 is a block diagram illustrating a method for providing accident risk information of a vehicle according to the present invention. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing accident risk information of a vehicle according to the present invention, FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state in which an abnormal state is determined in a method for providing information on an accident risk situation of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention, and a determination result is shared with neighboring vehicles.

According to these drawings, a method for providing accident risk situation information of a vehicle according to the present invention includes a step of acquiring image information, a position information and a vehicle information (S200), an acquisition information receiving step (S210), an abnormality determination step (S220) And a sharing step S230.

The image information, the position information and the vehicle information acquiring step S200 may include acquiring image information by the image information acquiring unit 110, vehicle information by the OBD-II terminal 120 and position information by the vehicle position information providing unit 130 .

On the other hand, in the image information, position information, and vehicle information acquiring step (S200), the image information acquiring unit 110 acquires the traveling road image information for the corresponding time as one or more consecutive photographs at the time of occurrence of an abnormal condition of the vehicle The OBD-II terminal 120 is a connector terminal for electrically connecting to acquire vehicle information in order to improve the running safety of the vehicle, and the vehicle position information providing unit 130 is a connector terminal for electrically connecting the OBD- GPS (Global Positioning System) built in a smart device or navigation system that enables the location information of a vehicle in an abnormal state of the vehicle to be provided through latitude and longitude.

The acquiring information receiving step S210 is a step in which the acquiring information including the image information, the position information, and the image information, the position information, and the vehicle information after the vehicle information obtaining step S200 is performed is received by the smart device 140. [

In the abnormal state determination step S220, whether or not the abnormal state is determined in the driving safety management system according to the image information, the position information, and the vehicle information received from the smart device 140 via the wireless communication after the acquisition information reception step S210 .

The abnormal state determination step S220 is a step of determining a danger of a frontal collision (or a sudden braking), a secondary (or lateral) collision risk, a road slip situation, a rush hour risk situation, and a road damage situation.

If it is determined that the vehicle is in a state of emergency due to an accident by outputting an airbag deployment signal, the front collision risk (or rapid braking) state determined in the abnormal state determination step S220 is determined as an emergency situation. (ABS) operation signal is output and it is determined that the wheel lock braking device (ABS) operation signal is generated by the weather or the preceding vehicle, it is determined that the emergency braking device (AEB) activation signal And it is judged that there is an abnormal situation when it is judged that it is a sudden braking situation.

The secondary (or lateral) collision risk situation determined in the abnormality determination step S220 may be an electronic control suspension (ESC) activation signal or an electronic control suspension (ESC) activation signal when a tire damage alarm signal is output through the tire air pressure alarm It is judged that it is an emergency or an abnormal situation.

If it is determined that the road slip situation is determined to be a road slip situation using the weather information by outputting an ESC operation signal, the road slip situation judged in the abnormality state determination step S220 is determined as an abnormal condition. If it is determined that the braking device (ABS) operation signal is outputted and is generated by the weather or the preceding vehicle, it is determined that the braking device is abnormal.

If it is determined that the emergency stop situation determination step S220 determines that the vehicle is in the emergency situation using the road topography information, the ESC operation signal is output and the recommended driving speed is determined.

Finally, if the vertical acceleration information of the electronically controlled suspension (CDC) is outputted and it is determined that the road surface is damaged, the road damage condition determined in the abnormality determination step S220 is determined to be an abnormal condition.

In step S230, the determination result is shared with the surrounding vehicles through the driving safety management system 150. The virtual safety line setting step S232, the state information requesting step S234 And an abnormal situation information providing step S236.

The virtual safety line setting step S232 is a step of setting a virtual safety line based on the map after checking the abnormal state through the driving safety management system 150. [

The step S234 of selecting whether or not to request the status information for the virtual safe-passage passing vehicle is a step for selecting whether or not to request the status information on the front road in the virtual safe-passing vehicle.

The abnormal situation information providing step S236 is a step of providing abnormal situation information when requesting the situation information on the road ahead.

That is, as a result of the determination, the sharing step S230 will be described as shown in FIG.

6 (a), when an unsteady situation occurs on the front side of the vehicle V1 while the vehicle is running, an active safety system, which is received by the OBD-II terminal 120, (ABS) and an electronic control suspension (ECS) operate to transmit information about the photograph and the position at the time of an abnormal situation to the driving safety management system 150 through the smart device 140.

Next, as shown in FIG. 6 (b), an abnormality of the communication vehicle is checked in the driving safety management system 150, a virtual safety line is set based on the map, , When the trailing vehicle V2 requests the forward road situation information, it transmits and shares the abnormal situation (photo and user information provision) information to the requested trailing vehicle V2.

As a result, the driver informs the surrounding vehicles irrespective of the presence or absence of the active safety system in the abnormal situation during the driving of the vehicle, so that the driver can drive the driving safely by preparing for the abnormal situation ahead.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, 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. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited by the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the appended claims, as well as the appended claims.

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120: OBD-II terminal
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Claims (14)

An image information acquisition unit for acquiring image information of the running road at the time of occurrence of an abnormal condition of the vehicle;
A vehicle location information providing unit for providing location information of the vehicle in an abnormal state of the vehicle;
An OBD-II terminal connected to obtain vehicle information for improving the running safety of the vehicle;
A smart device receiving at least one acquisition information of the image acquisition unit, the vehicle position information providing unit, and the OBD-II terminal; And
And a running safety management system for determining whether or not the vehicle is in an abnormal condition according to at least one of the acquired information received from the smart device through wireless communication and sharing the determination result with neighboring vehicles, . The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the image information obtaining unit is a built-in camera of a smart device or a black box for a vehicle. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the vehicle position information providing unit is a smart device or a GPS incorporated in navigation. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the vehicle information received by the OBD-II terminal is active safety system operation information and vehicle sensor information. 5. The method of claim 4,
The vehicle information includes at least one of an airbag deployment signal, an ABS, a body position control system (ESP, ESC, VDC), a tire air pressure alarm system (TPMS), an emergency automatic braking system (AEB), an electronic control suspension CDC, ECS) of the vehicle. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the running safety management system DBs the input information by the active safety system and is updated. Acquiring at least one of image information, position information, and vehicle information when an abnormal condition of the vehicle occurs;
Receiving at least one acquisition information of the image information, the position information, and the vehicle information at a smart device;
Determining whether the vehicle is in an abnormal state in the driving safety management system according to at least one of the image information, the position information, and the vehicle information received from the smart device through wireless communication; And
And the result of the determination is shared with neighboring vehicles through the driving safety management system. [8] The method of claim 7,
Setting a virtual safety line based on the map after checking the abnormal situation through the running safety management system;
Selecting whether or not to request status information on a forward road in the virtual safe-passage passing vehicle; And
And providing abnormal situation information when requesting the situation information on the road ahead. 8. The method of claim 7,
The step of determining whether or not the abnormality is determined includes determining a risk of an accident of a vehicle that determines at least one of a forward collision danger (or a sudden collision) situation, a secondary (or side) collision hazard situation, a road slip situation, How to provide context information. 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the forward collision risk (or rapid braking)
If it is determined that the airbag deployment signal is output and that the vehicle is an accidental vehicle, it is determined that the vehicle is in an emergency situation.
If it is determined that the ABS operation signal is output and the ABS operation signal is generated by the weather or the preceding vehicle,
AEB operation signal is outputted and it is determined that the vehicle is in a sudden braking state, it is determined that the vehicle is in an abnormal condition. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the secondary (or lateral)
A method for providing information on an accident risk situation of a vehicle which is judged to be an emergency or abnormality through the presence or absence of an ESC operation signal when a tire damage signal is output through TPMS. The method of claim 9, wherein the road slip situation determination comprises:
If it is determined that the ESC operation signal is outputted and is a road slip situation using weather information, it is determined that the situation is abnormal.
When the ABS operation signal is outputted and it is determined that the vehicle is caused by the weather or the preceding vehicle, it is determined that the vehicle is in an abnormal condition. 10. The method of claim 9,
ESC operation signal is outputted to determine the recommended driving speed when it is determined that the vehicle is in a dangerous situation of a sudden turn using the road topographical information. The method of claim 9, wherein the road-
And if the vertical acceleration information of the CDC is outputted and it is judged that the road surface is damaged, it is determined that the vehicle is in an abnormal condition.

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