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US 10,855,768 B2Granted
Method and system for vehicle communications
AssigneeTransportation IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsJared Klineman Cooper, John Brand, Todd William Goodermuth, Scott Nelson, Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Nick David Nagrodsky, Aaron Richard Mitti
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for processing data generated in a vehicle group. One example embodiment comprises selectively off-boarding a data set generated at a first vehicle in the vehicle group for storage purposes, the first data set off-boarded to one or more of a second vehicle in the vehicle group and a remote storage device.
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A method of processing data in a vehicle consist, comprising:
- determining, via an electronic controller, a level of quality of a data set captured by a data capture device of a first vehicle of the vehicle consist, the level of quality determined based on two or more of a resolution, a bit rate, and a signal-to-noise ratio of the data set;
- when the level of quality of the data set is higher than a threshold level, storing the data set in a first memory on the first vehicle;
- when the level of quality of the data set is not higher than the threshold level, storing the data set in a second memory on the first vehicle, the second memory separate from the first memory;
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- selectively off-boarding the data set for storage purposes via the electronic controller, the data set off-boarded to one or more of a second vehicle of the vehicle consist or a remote storage device offboard the vehicle consist based on the determined level of quality.
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A method, comprising:
- generating a first data set on a first vehicle of a vehicle consist, the first data set captured by a first data capture device of the first vehicle;
- evaluating, via an electronic controller, a resolution of the first data set;
- responsive to the resolution being below a quality threshold, capturing a second data set with a second data capture device of a second vehicle of the vehicle consist and storing the second data set on the second vehicle;
- responsive to the resolution being above the quality threshold, storing the first data set in a crash-hardened memory on the first vehicle;
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- after generating the first data set and before storing the first data set, reducing a file size of the first data set, via the electronic controller, by identifying background features in one or more frames of the first data set and replacing the identified background features with a simplified version of the identified background features.
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