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US 12,617,340 B1Granted
System and method for enhancing driver situational awareness in a transportation vehicle
AssigneeSpirited Eagle Enterprises, LLC
InventorsJerry K. Hubbell, Alan C. Lesesky
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Abstract
A method for enhancing situational awareness in a transportation vehicle includes locating at least one camera on the vehicle. Upon activation of a vehicle brake, the camera is automatically paired with a computing device located inside the vehicle.
Claims20
A method for determining a situational environment of a transportation vehicle, said method comprising:
- locating at least one camera on the vehicle;
- upon activating a vehicle brake when the vehicle is at rest, automatically pairing the camera with a computing device located inside the vehicle;
- and
- upon activating an ABS braking system of the vehicle when the vehicle is in motion, automatically performing at least one of:
- (i) a using the video camera, capturing video data of an environmental area on which the camera is focused at a time the ABS braking system is activated;
- and
- (ii) using the video camera and computing device, capturing video data of an environmental area on which the camera is focused at a time the ABS braking system is activated, and storing the video data in memory of the computing device;
- and
- (iii) using the video camera and computing device, capturing video data of an environmental area on which the camera is focused at a time the ABS braking system is activated, and transmitting the video data to a remote computing device.
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A method for determining a situational environment of a transportation vehicle, said method comprising:
- locating at least one camera on the vehicle;
- upon activating a vehicle brake when the vehicle is at rest, automatically pairing the camera with a computing device located inside the vehicle;
- and
- upon activating an ABS braking system of the vehicle when the vehicle is in motion:
- (i) using a vehicle data bus operatively connected to the ABS braking system to communicate vehicle braking information to the computing device;
- (ii) using the camera to automatically capture video data of an environmental area on which the camera is focused at a time the ABS braking system is activated;
- and
- (iii) at the time the ABS braking system is activated, using the computing device to perform at least one of storing the video data, transmitting the video data to a remote computing device, storing GPS location data, and transmitting GPS location data to a remote computing device.
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A method for determining a situational environment of a transportation vehicle, said method comprising:
- locating a plurality of cameras on the vehicle;
- upon activating a vehicle brake when the vehicle is at rest, automatically pairing the cameras with a computing device located inside the vehicle;
- and
- upon activating an ABS braking system of the vehicle when the vehicle is in motion:
- (i) using a vehicle data bus operatively connected to the ABS braking system to communicate vehicle braking information to the computing device;
- (ii) using the cameras to automatically capture video data of an environmental area on which the cameras are focused at a time the ABS braking system is activated;
- and
- (iii) at the time the ABS braking system is activated, using the computing device to perform at least one of storing the video data, transmitting the video data to a remote computing device, storing GPS location data, and transmitting GPS location data to a remote computing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.