Method and system for placing an emergency call
AssigneeContinental Teves AG & Co. oHG
InventorsUlrich Stählin, Peter Rieth, Karl-Thomas Neumann
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Abstract
An emergency call device for a vehicle is specified in which, on occurrence of a certain event, a data record is generated which thereupon is transmitted during the emergency call. The event can be an external request by an operator or a trigger signal inside a vehicle. In this way, the operator can obtain the most recent information at any time during the emergency call.
Claims12
A method for placing an emergency call from a vehicle in an accident to a rescue co-ordination center by text-to-speech method, comprising the steps:
- detecting an accident of the vehicle by a sensor system of an automatic accident monitoring unit in the vehicle, and in response to a detected accident:
- determining geographic accident co-ordinates of the vehicle by a positioning system,
- transmitting at least the accident co-ordinates to a central call unit processor, the central call unit processor correlating the accident coordinates with a digital map to determine a cartographic accident position as text information,
- converting the text information of the cartographic accident position into voice information by the central call unit processor, and
- transmitting the voice information from the central call unit to the rescue co-ordination center over a voice channel,
- transmitting the voice information from the rescue coordination center to a rescue vehicle, and
- automatically establishing, by the rescue coordination center, a voice channel between the vehicle in the accident and the rescue vehicle.
A system for placing an emergency call from a vehicle in an accident to a rescue co-ordination center by text-to-speech method, comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- detect an accident of the vehicle by a sensor system, and in response to a detected accident determine the current geographic accident co-ordinates of the vehicle, transmit the accident co-ordinates to a central call unit processor for correlating the accident coordinates with a digital map stored there centrally, to obtain a cartographic accident position as text information which is converted by the central call unit processor into voice information in order to transmit the voice information over a voice channel to the rescue co-ordination center,
- wherein the rescue coordinator center transmits the voice information to a rescue vehicle, and automatically establishes a voice channel between the vehicle in the accident and the rescue vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.