JP4875802B2 - Vehicle repair cost estimation system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a system for estimating an accident vehicle or the like.
[0002]
[Prior art]
As a system for estimating the repair cost of an accident vehicle, there is a system in which an operator selects and designates a damage range using a part list data and a vehicle illustration data.
[0003]
And, for example, on the illustration of the outer panel of the car displayed on the display device, the start point (collision point) and end point (damage point most distant from the collision point) are input with a mouse etc. A computer apparatus that determines a part (part) positioned between the end point and the end point as a damaged part can be considered.
[0004]
It is also possible to consider a computer device that estimates data of damage spreading (impact transmission) by inputting data on the starting point of damage, impact force, and collision direction, and determines these as damaged parts.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
Vehicles are composed of various materials and parts with different strengths, but the impact force is absorbed by deforming the structural material at locations where the structural strength is weak, and at locations where the structural strength is high The impact force is transmitted to the subsequent structural material without deforming the material. In recent years, there are vehicles in which an impact absorbing member is arranged in a part of the structure in order to protect the cabin (passenger's boarding space) at the time of an accident by utilizing such a property.
[0006]
However, the conventional repair cost estimation system does not consider such a form of damage propagation, and recognizes a damaged portion because the impact is reduced as the distance from the collision point is simply increased. Therefore, there is a case where an accurate estimate that matches the actual vehicle cannot be made, and an estimation process that lacks reliability is performed. In addition, quotation documents are usually prepared by the repair shop side, and repairs are started after approval of the quotation documents prepared by the non-life insurance company side. For insurance companies, vehicle repairs that require a high level of expertise are required. It took a lot of work to confirm the cost estimate document.
[0007]
This invention is made in view of the said matter, and makes it a subject to provide the system which a user etc. recognize easily an exact damaged part about the vehicle which caused the accident.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The present invention employs the following means in order to solve the above-described problems.
A vehicle repair cost estimation system according to a first aspect of the present invention is a storage means for storing a part price for each vehicle type and a wage data group required for parts replacement or repair. In addition, vehicle attribute data, which is data corresponding to parts that need to be replaced or repaired, parts data for each car model, impact transmission data set as an index value for standard parts in each car model, and images of damaged parts Storage means for storing the vehicle image data acquired as a file format and the impact transmission degree of the standard part, display means for displaying the vehicle image data according to the vehicle damage status, impact input point and impact degree for the target vehicle In order to enter the impact status from the impact input direction from the impact input point, and to input the impact status data and the parts data of the damaged parts of the target vehicle An input unit, based on the data stored by the granted and the memory means by the input means, by integrating parts price and wage work components described above injury, a calculation means for calculating a vehicle repair cost, this Control means for giving a necessary operation instruction to the computing means, and in accordance with an instruction from the control means, the computing means displays the state of the damaged portion on the display means. , By referring to the data stored in the storage means, displaying a list of parts based on the inventory of parts and damaged parts, and supporting the correction of the estimate, thereby functioning as the estimate data creation means to be created It is characterized by.
[0009]
According to a second invention, in the first invention, damage is caused from vehicle attribute data that stores correspondence data between a damaged part of the vehicle accompanying the repair and a part that needs to be replaced or repaired at the damaged part. with seeking components required replacement or repair, the component in which the replacement or repair is required, if the components located downstream of the site of injury in an impact input direction, pairs of the impact absorbing amount of the components in standard parts Thus, the determination is made by the product of the index set in advance and the impact transmission degree of the standard part .
[0010]
According to a third invention, in the first or second invention, the vehicle image data corresponding to the damage state includes vehicle image data representing a vehicle internal structure .
In a fourth aspect based on the third aspect, the vehicle image data includes vehicle skeleton data.
In addition, when using the term site | part in this specification, it represents the group of components with a certain amount of unit related with respect to one component of a vehicle. A certain degree of unity may be a group of parts that are close to one part, or a group of parts that are involved in repairing one part (for example, demounting when repairing one part) A group including necessary parts). One part may be used as one part.
[0013]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of an accident vehicle damaged part recognition system and a recognition method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
[0014]
As shown in FIG. 1, an accident vehicle damaged part recognition system according to the present embodiment includes a personal computer 20 (hereinafter referred to as a PC), an auxiliary storage device 3 connected to the PC 20 through an input / output interface 4, a keyboard or An input device 2 composed of a mouse, a trackball, a touch pad, etc., a digital still camera 1, a display device 8 connected to the PC 20 through an input / output interface 7, a printing device 9, and an output device such as a communication device 12 It consists of and.
[0015]
Here, the auxiliary storage device 3 connected to the PC 20 through the input / output interface 4 can be a floppy disk device, a hard disk, or an optical disk device. The auxiliary storage device 3 corresponds to storage means.
[0016]
The input device 2 can be connected to an OCR, OMR, barcode reader, digitizer, image scanner, voice recognition device, etc. in addition to a keyboard or the like. As an output device, in addition to the display device 8 and the like, a drawing device 10 and a multimedia processing device 11 can be connected. Further, the communication device 12 can be connected to another terminal device 16 through a communication line. it can. The input device 2 corresponds to the designation means and the impact state input means, and the display device 8 and the display 13 connected to the display device 8 correspond to the display means.
[0017]
The system according to the present embodiment also includes a device that captures image data of a vehicle to be repaired. As an apparatus for capturing image data of a vehicle to be repaired, in addition to the digital still camera 1, an optical sensor having a light projecting unit, a light receiving optical unit, and a photoelectric conversion unit can be used. Here, a tungsten lamp, a halogen lamp, a fluorescent lamp, or the like is used for the light projecting portion of these optical sensors, and a xenon lamp is used for the intermittent light. As the light receiving optical system, an ITV camera using a vidicon, silicon vidicon, carnicon or the like, a semiconductor sensor, a MOS type or a CCD type fixed camera is used, and a photoelectric conversion unit is an imaging tube, a solid-state imaging tube element, a photoelectric conversion It is formed by an element or the like.
[0018]
In addition to the digital still camera 1 as a device that captures the image data of the repaired vehicle, a moving image capturing camera is used, and a moving image taken for one rotation from a certain direction while rotating the vehicle to be repaired placed on the turntable. Therefore, a still image corresponding to a predetermined direction may be extracted and used.
[0019]
The PC 20 includes a main storage device 6 (hard disk, ROM, RAM [hereinafter referred to as memory]) and a central processing unit 5 (hereinafter referred to as CPU). Then, the PC 20 that determines the damaged portion of the accident vehicle and estimates the repair starts the program cached in the memory 6 or the auxiliary storage device 3 under the control of the OS and executes a predetermined task (process). . The PC 20 can also perform multitasking in which a plurality of tasks are executed virtually and simultaneously in parallel.
[0020]
Note that some of the functions of the PC 20 are provided with the function of a memory management device.
That is, this memory management device also has a function of converting a logical address on the memory 6 designated by the process for reading or writing into a physical address indicating the address of a physical page that is actually read from or written to the memory 6. ing.
[0021]
Next, the CPU 5 constituting the PC 20 main body fetches instructions from the memory 6 to the CPU 5 based on the arithmetic unit 5b that performs four arithmetic operations, logical operations, etc. on the given data and the address of the instruction unit 6a to be executed. And a control device 5a that decodes the content of the command and issues a necessary operation instruction to another device.
[0022]
As shown in FIG. 1, the control device 5a issues an input control command to the input device 2 or the like, issues a memory 6 control command to the memory 6, and outputs an output control command to the output device or the like. Put out.
[0023]
A command input from the input device 2 or the like is first transferred to the memory 6, and the memory 6 selects data and instructions from the given command, and the selected data and instructions are controlled by the control device of the CPU 5. Transfer to 5a.
[0024]
Here, the image data captured by the digital still camera 1 and transferred to the memory 6 through the input / output interface 4 or repair vehicle data input from the input device 2 such as a keyboard is temporarily stored in the data section 6 b of the memory 6. Stored. The PC 20 corresponds to a damaged part determination unit.
[0025]
By the way, the data section 6b stores in advance contour data viewed (captured) from each direction of the vehicle for each vehicle (each vehicle type). For example, 360 degrees of all directions are divided into 12 parts, and the data section 6b stores the contour data of the vehicle viewed from each direction. As these contour data, CAD data and wire frame data may be prepared for each vehicle type, and may be projected from each direction as contour data. Further, the contour data of the vehicle may exemplify contour data of the vehicle outer shape and contour data of the vehicle internal structure, and may be image data representing the vehicle external shape and the vehicle internal structure in detail.
[0026]
Furthermore, the area of each outer panel for each vehicle is also stored in the data portion 6b.
The data section 6b stores vehicle specification data, part data, repair manual data, painting color data, painting method data, and the like corresponding to each vehicle type and corresponding to the grade of each vehicle type.
[0027]
Further, the data section 6b stores a data group of vehicle parts price and a wage data group required for parts replacement or repair, and includes a damaged part of the vehicle accompanying repair and parts that need replacement or repair due to damage. Corresponding data is stored as vehicle attribute data. Further, the data section 6b also stores wage data required for sheet metal repair corresponding to each work.
[0028]
These data stored in the data section 6b can be ranked respectively. For example, among the parts to be replaced, a new genuine part is given the highest rank, and excellent parts are given the middle rank. At the same time, used genuine parts can be stored as the lowest rank.
[0029]
Thus, options can be given at the time of estimation, information can be disclosed and selected by the user, the frequency of use of a used parts network or the like can be increased, and recycling promotion proposals can also be made.
[0030]
These data stored in the data section 6b include past repair vehicle data, past repair vehicle damage data obtained from this data, parts data used in the past repair vehicle, Vehicle image data for searching for a damaged part of the repaired vehicle based on the past damaged part data of the repaired vehicle is included as vehicle attribute data.
[0031]
In the control device 5a, the repaired vehicle data and image data of the accident vehicle and the command transferred from the memory 6 are decoded, and necessary operation instructions are given to the arithmetic device 5b. Then, the arithmetic device 5b performs a logical operation or the like on the given repair vehicle data, image data, and command.
[0032]
Next, processing in the PC 20 of this embodiment will be described with a focus on the flowchart of FIG.
First, the operator inputs vehicle data such as the type, model, year, classification, and number of the accident vehicle on the screen 50 displayed on the display 13 by the input device 2 (step 101, FIG. 2). Then, the control device 5a reads the vehicle type image data 51 corresponding to the input vehicle data from the auxiliary storage device 3, and the screen 50 including the vehicle image data display unit 52 on which the vehicle image data 51 is displayed is displayed. 13 (step 102, FIG. 3). The screen 50 also displays a damage input direction designating unit 55 for designating the input direction of damage (impact) by dividing the vehicle into 12 azimuths on the entire circumference.
[0033]
Next, the control device 5a determines which direction is designated by the input device 2 in the damage input direction designation section 55 (step 103). Here, it is assumed that the 11 o'clock direction is designated.
[0034]
Thereafter, the control device 5a displays the height designation unit 60 in the vehicle image data display unit 52, and determines what damage position height is designated (step 104, FIG. 4). Here, it is assumed that the middle height is designated.
[0035]
Next, the control device 5a displays a plane image of the vehicle on the screen 50, and determines how much impact force is designated by the input device 2 (step 105). When the control device 5a determines the impact force, the degree of damage can be determined from the length of the vector input to the screen 50 as shown in FIG. In addition, as shown in FIG. 5, several points are marked by clicking the mouse on the plane image of the vehicle, and the lines connecting these points are made the same as the spillover lines of the accident vehicle in appearance. The degree of damage can also be specified.
[0036]
As shown in FIG. 6, it is preferable that the operator designates the vector to a certain length, and at the same time, the vehicle image shows the deformation of the outer shape of the vehicle in accordance with the impact force. Then, the operator can recognize the damaged shape of the outer shape of the collision part of the accident vehicle by appearance, so that the deformation is the same as the actual deformation of the accident vehicle while adjusting the vector length. If the vector length at the time is determined, the impact force can be easily specified.
[0037]
Further, the impact data may be designated by data processing of the image data of the accident vehicle captured from the digital still camera 1. That is, the contour of the vehicle is traced from the image data of the accident vehicle, the contour shape is compared with a regular contour shape stored in advance, the degree of deformation is recognized by the difference in coordinate values, and the deformation is The value of the impact force.
[0038]
Next, the control device 5a determines whether or not there is another damaged part (impact input part) (step 106). When another damaged part is pointed out by the operator's instruction, the control device 5a repeats the processing from step 103. At this time, as shown in FIG. 11, a plurality of pieces of damage information are displayed on the screen 50. Here, the third damage status is being input, and vectors (1) to (3) represent the input directions of the respective damages. That is, the vector (1) is the damage direction in the 1 o'clock direction, the vector (2) is the damage direction in the 11 o'clock direction, and the vector (3) represents the damage direction in the 9 o'clock direction.
[0039]
If there is no other damaged part in step 106, the control device 5a determines the damaged part and the degree of damage of the damaged part (step 107).
Since the auxiliary storage device 3 stores impact transmission data of each part based on the strength, material, structure, etc. of the part for each vehicle type, the control device 5a uses the shock transmission data to match the vehicle type. Can recognize the damage situation. That is, the impact transmission data stored in the auxiliary storage device 3 is set as an index value for the standard part.
[0040]
For example, an impact such as “1.2” is set for a component having a higher strength than that of a standard component because an impact is more easily transmitted. If the impact transmission degree of the standard part is “50%”, 60% of the impact is transmitted to the subsequent part by “1.2 × 0.5 = 0.6”. It can also be said that this part absorbs 40% of impact.
[0041]
In addition, since a shock is absorbed more in a part having a mesh structure or the like and having a strength lower than that of a standard part, an index such as “0.8” is set. If the impact transmission degree of the standard part is “45%”, 36% of the impact is transmitted to the subsequent part by “0.8 × 0.45 = 0.36”. This part absorbs 64 percent of the impact.
[0042]
The impact transmission data of the standard parts themselves and the index set for each part for each vehicle type are determined in advance by analyzing the collision test data etc. performed for each vehicle type. The data can be updated based on the accumulated data of the accident.
[0043]
Then, the control device 5a determines the damage site according to the vehicle type based on the impact input data, the impact position data including the impact height, the impact status data such as impact force, and the indices set for the respective components. And determine the degree of damage. FIG. 7 shows a screen of an outer plate damage degree display unit 52a including vehicle image data 51 representing the degree of vehicle outer plate damage, and an inner frame damage degree display unit 52b including vehicle image data 57 representing the degree of vehicle inner frame damage. 50 is displayed. On the outer plate damage degree display section 52a, a damaged portion 51a (red) having a large degree of damage, a moderately damaged portion 51b (yellow), and a small damaged portion 51c (blue) are displayed in different colors. ing. Further, the damaged portion 57a (red) having a large degree of damage and the damaged portion 57b (yellow) having a small degree of damage are displayed in different colors on the internal skeleton damage degree display section 52b (step 108).
[0044]
FIGS. 8-10 is the aspect which displayed in detail the damage location and damage degree of the vehicle centering on the vehicle image data of an internal skeleton on the internal skeleton damage degree display part 52b. In the internal skeleton damage degree display section 52b of FIG. 8, a large damage portion 57a (red), a medium damage portion 57b (yellow), and a small damage portion 57c (blue) are colored. It is displayed separately. From the image of FIG. 8, it can be recognized that the impact at the time of the collision is transmitted to the left center pillar. 9 and 10 show a state in which the control device 5a determines a repair method for each damaged part, and the control device 5a should replace the damaged part 57a (front bumper) with a large degree of damage. Is represented by separating the damaged portion 57a from other portions (step 109).
[0045]
Here, a photo shooting (pseudo shooting) mode during the estimation process for taking a photo attached to the estimate data will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
The control device 5a changes the screen 50 to the photographing mode screen as shown in FIG. 12 when there is a photograph photographing instruction by the operator's instruction during the estimation process as shown in FIGS. 8 to 10 (step 201). (Step 202).
[0046]
The operator clicks various icons on the shooting mode screen 50 with a mouse as appropriate, thereby arbitrarily changing the direction of the vehicle image on the screen 50 and enlarging / reducing it to accurately determine the state of the damaged portion. A photograph is taken as the vehicle image shown in (step 203). When taking a picture, by clicking the shutter icon on the screen 50, the vehicle image displayed at that time is stored in the memory 6 in the BMP format. Thereafter, the control device 5a displays a list of the photographing data stored in the memory 6 on the screen 50 (step 204, FIG. 13), and returns to the processing of step 201.
[0047]
Returning to the description of the flowchart shown in FIG.
After the processing of step 109, the control device 5a refers to the component data of the auxiliary storage device 3 based on whether the damaged part (component) is repaired or not, based on the replacement or repair, and the part price and work The wage is integrated to calculate the repair cost of the vehicle, and detailed estimate data is displayed on the screen 50 (step 110). At this time, if there are multiple parts extracted due to the presence of a plurality of damaged portions, the redundant extra parts are deleted and calculated and displayed.
[0048]
In addition, when the user permits the use of the rebuilt parts when repairing the vehicle, the control device 5a checks whether there is a stock of the rebuilt parts corresponding to the replacement parts, and estimates the repair cost including the rebuilt parts. Detailed data is displayed on the screen 50. Further, when estimating the repair cost, it is possible to display a list of parts / work belonging to the damaged part on the screen, and the operator can select an item from the list and correct the estimate.
[0049]
Then, the control device 5a calculates a repair procedure for the estimated vehicle, creates a repair manual, prints a repair cost estimate and a repair manual, and ends the processing (step 111). In creating the repair cost estimate, the above-described vehicle image data is also printed and attached to the estimate. Further, the photographing data may be captured and printed in the estimate form. FIG. 14 is an example showing the estimated contents when there is one damaged part, and FIG. 15 is an example showing the estimated contents when there are a plurality (three) of damaged parts.
[0050]
As described above, according to the accident vehicle damaged part recognition system and the recognition method of the present embodiment, shock transmission data (damage spreading data) is set for each component of each vehicle type. By simply specifying impact status data such as input height and impact force, it is possible to easily recognize an accurate damaged portion according to each vehicle type.
[0051]
And since the vehicle image representing the exact damage situation according to the impact transmission data can be saved as arbitrarily photographed from the correct direction and attached to the estimate document, the complicated damage part can be recognized, for example, the insurance company side And users such as vehicle owners can easily and easily recognize them.
[0052]
【Effect of the invention】
ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, a user etc. can recognize an exact damaged part easily intelligible about the vehicle which caused the accident.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a vehicle repair cost estimation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during estimation processing displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during a shooting mode displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a screen configuration during a photographing mode displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a screen configuration of estimated contents displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a screen configuration of estimate content displayed on the display device in the embodiment.
FIG. 16 is a flowchart for explaining a processing process of a computer in the embodiment;
FIG. 17 is a flowchart for explaining a processing process of a computer in the embodiment;
[Explanation of symbols]
2 Input device 3 Auxiliary storage device 5 Central processing unit 6 Main storage device 8 Display device 12 Communication device 13 Display 20 Personal computer

Claims (4)

Computer
A storage means for storing a part price for each vehicle type and a data group of labor required for parts replacement or repair, and is correspondence data between a damaged part of a vehicle accompanying repair and a part that needs replacement or repair accompanying the damage. Vehicle attribute data, parts data for each vehicle type, impact transmission data set as an index value for the standard part in each part for each vehicle type, vehicle image data obtained as an image file format of the state of the damaged part, and impact transmission of the standard part Storage means for storing the degree;
Display means for displaying vehicle image data according to the vehicle damage status;
With respect to the target vehicle, an impact input point, a degree of impact, and an impact input direction from the impact input point are set as an impact state, and input means for inputting data of the impact state and part data of a damaged part of the target vehicle,
Based on the data given by the input means and stored by the storage means, the calculation means for calculating the vehicle repair cost by accumulating the parts price and work cost of the damaged parts,
Control means for giving a necessary operation instruction to the computing means;
In order to display the state of the damaged part on the display means in accordance with the command of the control means, the repair cost estimate data including the vehicle image data is referred to the data stored in the storage means. A vehicle repair cost estimation system that functions as an estimate data creation means for creating a list by displaying a list of operations based on parts inventory and damaged parts and assisting in correction of the estimate. The control means needs to be replaced or repaired due to damage from the vehicle attribute data storing correspondence data of damaged parts of the vehicle accompanying repair and parts that need replacement or repair accompanying damage at the damaged part. Seeking parts
If the part that needs to be replaced or repaired is a part located after the damaged part in the impact input direction, the shock absorption amount of the part is set in advance for the standard part and the shock transmission of the standard part The vehicle repair cost estimation system according to claim 1, wherein the determination is based on a product of the degree.   3. The vehicle repair cost estimation system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle image data corresponding to the damage state includes vehicle image data representing a vehicle internal structure.   4. The vehicle repair cost estimation system according to claim 3, wherein the vehicle image data includes vehicle skeleton data.

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