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US 11,455,847 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for obtaining event related data
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsRaymond J. Kiefer, Samuel T. Haberl, Eric L. Raphael
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Abstract
The present application generally relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining incident related data in a motor vehicle. In particular, the system is operative to determine a vehicle to vehicle contract event or near contact event, transmit a request for data, such as video, numeric, and telemetry data, from proximate actors via V2X communications channel, or to request the data be transmitted to a network storage location.
Claims12
An apparatus for collecting vehicle incident related data within a host vehicle comprising:
- a first camera, within the host vehicle, having a memory for buffering a first video file;
- an airbag deployment sensor, within the host vehicle, for generating a control signal in response to an airbag deployment within the host vehicle;
- a non-volatile memory for storing the first video file and a second video file;
- a transmitter for transmitting a request for data from the host vehicle to a proximate vehicle via a vehicle to vehicle communications network;
- a receiver, within the host vehicle, for receiving the second video file from the proximate vehicle via the vehicle to vehicle communications network wherein the second video file is captured by a second camera with the proximate vehicle;
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- a processor, within the host vehicle, for receiving the control signal, for generating the request for data in response to the control signal, for receiving and storing the first video file and the second video file on the non-volatile memory, the processor being further operative to estimate a time to collision and to generate the request for data in response to the time to collision.
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An apparatus comprising:
- an airbag deployment sensor within a host vehicle for detecting an airbag deployment event;
- a processor within the host vehicle for generating a request for data in response to the airbag deployment event, the processor being further operative to estimate a time to collision and to generate the request for data in response to the time to collision;
- a transmitter, within the host vehicle, for transmitting the request for data to a proximate vehicle via a vehicle to vehicle communications network;
- a receiver, within the host vehicle, for receiving a received data including a first video from a proximate vehicle via a vehicle to vehicle communications network wherein the first video is captured by a first camera with the proximate vehicle;
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- a memory within the host vehicle for storing the received data including the first video.
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A method comprising:
- detecting an airbag deployment event within a host vehicle;
- generating, by a processor within the host vehicle, a request for data in response to the detection of the airbag deployment event, the processor being further operative to estimate a time to collision and to generate the request for data in response to the time to collision;
- transmitting, by a transmitter, the requested for data via a wireless communications network to a proximate vehicle;
- receiving, by a receiver, a received data including a first video file from the proximate vehicle via the wireless communications network wherein the first video file is captured by a first camera with the proximate vehicle;
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- storing, in a non-volatile memory, the received data including the first video file.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.