JP3172266B2 - Automatic notification device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic reporting device for reporting location information of a vehicle to a predetermined contact when an emergency occurs in the vehicle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When an emergency situation such as an accident or a breakdown occurs in a vehicle, in order to promptly take rescue measures or the like, the position information of the vehicle is immediately reported to a fire department or a police station. It is desired.

[0003] For this reason, there has been proposed an automatic notifying device for notifying the location information of the vehicle to a predetermined contact using a telephone line or the like in the event of an emergency (for example, Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-open No. Sho 6).
See 3-72699).

[0004]

However, the position information of the own vehicle reported to the contact by the above-mentioned conventional automatic reporting device is merely positional coordinate data such as longitude and latitude, so the following inconveniences occur. Was occurring.

That is, a contact having a communication system capable of recognizing a vehicle position only from the position coordinate data (for example, a fire station equipped with a computer terminal or the like on which the position coordinate data is plotted on a map on a display or the like) ), The above notification is effective, but for contacts without the above-mentioned communication system (for example, ordinary households who only have a telephone etc.), even if they report,
Since the position of the vehicle cannot be recognized on the communication system, the notification is meaningless. For this reason, conventionally, it has not been possible to expand the contact information at the time of occurrence of an emergency to the home or the like and to enhance the emergency communication network.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and even when a contact that cannot recognize the vehicle position based on only the position coordinate data, the contact of the host vehicle when an emergency occurs. It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic reporting device capable of reporting location information.

[0007]

The automatic notification device according to the present invention achieves the above object by creating location name information corresponding to position coordinate data and reporting the location name information. It is designed to work.

That is, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when an emergency situation occurs in the own vehicle, the position information of the own vehicle is copied to a predetermined multiple.
An automatic notification device for notifying a number of contacts, a position coordinate detecting means for detecting the position coordinates of the own vehicle, and replacing data of the detected position coordinates with information of a spot name corresponding to the position coordinates. Information replacement means; emergency occurrence detection means for detecting that an emergency has occurred in the own vehicle; and when the occurrence of the emergency has been detected, the position information of the own vehicle is forwarded.
Reporting means for sequentially reporting to a plurality of contacts.
The reporting means, based on the communication with each of the contacts,
Whether the contact can recognize the vehicle position using the position coordinate data
The contact information is stored in the location coordinate data.
When the vehicle position can be recognized by the
To the contact as the location information of the vehicle.
On the other hand, the contact point recognizes the vehicle position based on the position coordinate data.
When it is not possible, the information replacement means
The location name information replaced from the mark data is used as the location of the vehicle.
The information is reported to the contact .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the notifying means comprises:
When the vehicle position can be recognized by the
Together with the data from the position coordinate data by the information replacement means.
It is configured to notify the exchanged location name information to the contact.
It is characterized by having been done.

The above-mentioned "emergency situation" is typically a vehicle accident, but is not limited to this. Of course, other situations such as vehicle failure, deterioration of the driver's health, etc. Including.

[0011] The "point name information" is not limited to specific information as long as it is position information that can be reported to a contact who cannot recognize the vehicle position only by the position coordinate data. For example, the names of municipalities, names of roads on which the vehicle is traveling, names of nearest intersections, names of facilities, and the like are represented by voice data, character data, image data, and the like.

[0012]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when an emergency occurs, the position information of the own vehicle is determined according to the communication system of the contact destination.
Select the location coordinate data or point name information and
Because it is designed to report to the location coordinate data
Therefore, for contacts who can perform vehicle position recognition
Is the location coordinate data, the location name for contacts that cannot
By reporting information, unnecessary information is reported
Waste can be prevented. Further, even in the case of an emergency where a vehicle position cannot be recognized only by the position coordinate data, such as a general home having only a telephone or the like, the position information of the own vehicle can be reported.
Thus, the emergency communication network can be enhanced.

Further, according to the second aspect of the present invention, the position
Report location name information along with location data
Because the contact information is limited to the location coordinates
Even when location recognition cannot be performed sufficiently,
The vehicle position can be sufficiently recognized based on the point name information.
Wear.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the automatic notification device according to the present invention.

As shown, the automatic notification device 10
A device for reporting position information of the vehicle to a predetermined contact when an emergency occurs in the vehicle, comprising a position coordinate detecting means 12, an emergency occurrence detecting means 14, a control means 16 (reporting means), and a storage means. 18, information replacing means 20, and communication means 2
2 is provided.

The position coordinate detecting means 12 is means for detecting the position coordinates of the own vehicle, and uses a GPS, a geomagnetic sensor, a gyro or the like in a navigation system.

The emergency situation detecting means 14 is a means for detecting that an emergency situation has occurred in the vehicle, and a detecting means corresponding to the mode of the emergency situation is used. For example, in the case of a vehicle accident, a G sensor or the like for operating an airbag that detects vehicle acceleration can be used. In the case of a vehicle failure, a safety monitor or the like that detects an abnormality of each part of the vehicle can be used. Can be used, and furthermore, in the case of deterioration of the health condition of the driver, the grip strength of the driver,
It is possible to use a grip force sensor, a sweat sensor, a pulse sensor, or the like provided on the steering wheel to detect a sweating state and a pulse.

When the emergency occurrence detecting means 14 detects the occurrence of an emergency, the control means 16 determines the position information of the own vehicle in accordance with the communication system of the contact, out of the position coordinate data and the location name information. This is a means for selecting one of them and notifying the contact. The position coordinate data is the data of the position coordinate itself detected by the position coordinate detecting means 12 (for example, data including longitude and latitude), and the place name information is information of the place name corresponding to the position coordinate data. (For example, information in which the names of cities, towns and villages, names of roads on which the vehicle is running, names of nearest intersections, names of facilities, and the like are represented by voice data, character data, image data, and the like).

The above-mentioned contacts are telephones, facsimiles, etc. of ordinary households and repair shops, computer terminals of fire departments, police stations, etc. Communication between these contacts and the control means 16 is performed by the communication means 22. The communication is performed using a communication network 32 of a telephone line via the Internet. The communication is performed via the nearest base station 34. The information notified from the control means 16 to each contact includes not only the position information of the own vehicle but also ID information such as a vehicle number and a driver's blood type.

The storage means 18 stores the position coordinate detecting means 1
The data of the position coordinates detected by 2 is stored while being rewritten as needed. Also, this storage means 1
8 stores in advance the ID information, the map data, the telephone number of the contact, and the like. As for the telephone number of the contact, the priority in reporting is also stored.

The information replacing means 20 converts the position coordinate data to the position coordinate data for a contact which cannot recognize the vehicle position only by the data of the position coordinates detected by the position coordinate detecting means 12. This is a means for replacing with corresponding point name information, and generates voice data by voice synthesis or the like and generates character data or image data according to the communication system of the contact.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the control contents of the control means 16.

First, the position coordinates of the vehicle are calculated based on the detection signal from the position coordinate detecting means 12, and the calculated position coordinates are stored in the storage means 18 as position coordinate data (step S1, step S1).
S2).

In the normal state, the above operation is repeatedly performed at predetermined time intervals (for example, every one second). However, when the emergency occurrence detection means 14 detects that an accident has occurred in the own vehicle, the storage means The telephone number of the first priority contact is called from 18 and an automatic call is made to this contact (steps S3, S4).

This automatic transmission signal is a signal of a communication agreement such as a transmission speed and a transmission format. Therefore, when the communication system on the receiving side is a computer terminal, a response to the automatic transmission signal can be obtained. However, when the communication system on the receiving side is a telephone, etc., the contents of the automatic transmission signal cannot be understood at all. , No response is obtained. Therefore, it is determined whether the communication system on the receiving side is a computer terminal based on the presence or absence of this response (step S5).
Is transmitted as it is (step S6). On the other hand, if it is not a computer terminal, these stored data are once input to the information replacing means 20, and the data for transmission (audio data, Character data or image data) is created, and the transmission data is transmitted (steps S7, S8, S9).

The transmission data includes the location name information replaced from the position coordinate data. The replacement and creation of the location name information are performed as follows. That is, based on the position coordinate data, the name of the municipalities corresponding to the position coordinate data from the map data, the name of the road on which the vehicle is traveling, the name of the nearest intersection, the name of the facility, etc. are read from the storage means 18 and these are read out by the information replacing means. 20 and input the position coordinates of the own vehicle, names of municipalities, road names, names of nearest intersections and facilities, and positional relationships between these intersections, facilities and the own vehicle (for example, a point 200 m west from the OX intersection). ) Is created.

Next, after the notification is made, the communication circuit is temporarily disconnected (step S10). Then, the above-mentioned notification (automatic transmission and transmission of position information) is sequentially performed for the contacts having the second priority or lower, and when the notification is completed for all the contacts, the above control is terminated (step S11).

In the above flowchart, a vehicle accident is taken as an example of an emergency situation. However, the same control is performed when a situation such as a vehicle failure or deterioration of the driver's health condition occurs.

As described in detail above, according to the present embodiment,
In the event of an emergency, the location information of the vehicle can be reported as location information, not simply data represented by location coordinates. Even in the event of an emergency, the location information of the vehicle can be reported to a contact that cannot recognize the vehicle position based on the data alone. Thus, the emergency communication network can be enhanced.

Further, according to this embodiment, when an emergency occurs, one of the position coordinate data and the location name information is selected as the location information of the own vehicle according to the communication system of the contact. Since the above-mentioned contact is reported, the position coordinate data is reported to the contact who can recognize the vehicle position only by the position coordinate data, and the location name information is reported to the contact who cannot recognize the vehicle position. This can prevent waste of unnecessary information being reported.

In the above embodiment, when the communication system on the receiving side is a computer terminal, only the position coordinate data stored in the storage means 18 is transmitted as the position information of the own vehicle. The position coordinate data may be replaced with point name information that can be processed by the computer terminal, and the point name information may be transmitted together with the position coordinate data. By doing so, for example, although the communication system on the receiving side is a computer terminal, it does not have a function of plotting the position coordinate data on the map on the display, and the vehicle position recognition can be sufficiently performed only by the position coordinate data. Even if it is a communication system that can not be performed, by appropriately performing information processing in the computer terminal based on the above-mentioned place name information,
The vehicle position can be sufficiently recognized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an automatic notification device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Automatic notification apparatus 12 Position coordinate detection means 14 Emergency occurrence detection means 16 Control means (reporting means) 18 Storage means 20 Information replacement means 22 Communication means

Continuation of front page (56) References JP-A-4-31999 (JP, A) JP-A-2-92068 (JP, A) JP-A-64-31294 (JP, A) JP-A-64-65698 (JP) , A) JP-A-2-220200 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G08G 1/13 G08G 1/123

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An automatic notification device for notifying position information of a host vehicle to a plurality of predetermined contact points when an emergency occurs in the host vehicle, and position coordinate detecting means for detecting position coordinates of the host vehicle; Information replacement means for replacing the data of the detected position coordinates with information of a point name corresponding to the position coordinates; emergency occurrence detection means for detecting that an emergency has occurred in the own vehicle; when but detected, said a notification unit that the position information of the vehicle successively notification to said plurality of contacts, Ri Na and wherein the notification unit on the basis the for communication with each contact該連
Whether the contact can recognize the vehicle position based on the position coordinate data
Is determined, and the contact information is determined by the position coordinate data.
When vehicle position recognition is possible, the position coordinate data
Notify the contact information as the location information of the vehicle.
On the other hand, the contact information can be recognized by the position coordinate data.
When it is not possible, the information replacement means
The location name information replaced from the data is
An automatic notification device configured to notify the contact as a notification. 2. The notifying means, wherein the contact information is position coordinate data.
When the vehicle position can be recognized, the position coordinate data and
Both are replaced from the position coordinate data by the information replacement means.
Configured to report the location information
It has automatic warning apparatus of claim 1, wherein.