Method and system for annotating graphs of vehicle data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10909777-B2
Application number	US-201816171895-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2018
Priority date	Oct 26, 2018
Publication date	Feb 2, 2021
Grant date	Feb 2, 2021

Abstract

An example method includes receiving, at a computing system, a first user input from a user interface during operation of a vehicle and responsive to receiving the first user input, determining a time of reception for the first user input. The method further includes receiving a first set of parameters from the vehicle that correspond to a first parameter identifier (PID). The method also includes determining a time of reception for each parameter, and based on the time of reception for the first user input and the time of reception for each parameter of the first set of parameters, determining a first temporal position for an indicator configured to represent the first user input on a graph of the parameters corresponding to the first PID. The method further includes displaying, on a display interface, the graph of the parameters corresponding to the first PID with the indicator in the first temporal position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a computing system, a first input from a first source during operation of a vehicle;
responsive to receiving the first input, determining a time of reception for the first input;
receiving, at the computing system, a first set of parameters from the vehicle subsequent to operation of the vehicle, wherein the first set of parameters correspond to a first parameter identifier (PID) representative of one or more measurements by a vehicle sensor captured during operation of the vehicle;
responsive to receiving the first set of parameters, determining a time of reception for each parameter of the first set of parameters;
based on the time of reception for the first input and the time of reception for each parameter of the first set of parameters, determining, by the computing system, a first temporal position for a first indicator configured to represent the first input on a graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID; and
displaying, by the computing system on a display interface, the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID with the first indicator in the first temporal position.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving, at the computing system, the first input from the first source during operation of the vehicle comprises:
receiving a vocal input representing the first input from a microphone;
based on receiving the vocal input, determining text that represents the vocal input using speech recognition; and
storing the determined text with the first input.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving, by the computing system, a selection of the first indicator configured to represent the first input; and
responsive to receiving the selection of the first indicator, displaying, by the computing system on the display interface, the text that represents the vocal input.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein displaying the text that represents the vocal input comprises:
displaying the text that represents the vocal input in a popup box.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein displaying the text that represents the vocal input further comprises:
providing an option that enables editing the text that represents the vocal input;
receiving one or more edits to the text that represents the vocal input; and
displaying the edited text.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
based on determining the first temporal position for the first indicator configured to represent the first input on the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID, determining a symbol that corresponds to the first indicator, wherein the symbol is based on the first source; and
displaying, by the computing system on the display interface, the symbol relative to a graph view slider, wherein the symbol is displayed at a position relative to the graph view slider that is based on the first temporal position for the first indicator, and wherein the graph view slider is configurable to modify a view of the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
receiving, at the computing system, a selection of the symbol that corresponds to the first indicator; and
responsive to the receiving the selection of the symbol, modifying a view of the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID such that the view of the graph displays a portion of the graph that includes the first indicator that represents the first input.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first indicator is displayed as a vertical cursor on the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the computing system, a threshold for the first PID;
determining, by the computing system, a temporal position for a second indicator that represents a parameter corresponding to the first PID breaching the threshold for the first PID; and
wherein displaying, by the computing system on the display interface, the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID with the first indicator in the first temporal position comprises:
displaying the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID with the second indicator and the first indicator arranged on the graph based on a temporal order that depends on the temporal position for the second indicator and the first temporal position for the first indicator.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving, at the computing system, the first input from the first source during operation of the vehicle comprises:
receiving a touch input representing the first input from a touchscreen interface; and
wherein responsive to receiving the first input, determining the time of reception for the first input comprises:
determining that the time of reception for the touch input corresponds to a given time when the touchscreen interface detects the touch input.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving, at the computing system, the first input from the first source during operation of the vehicle comprises:
receiving a button input representing the first input from an input interface of the computing system; and
wherein responsive to receiving the first input, determining the time of reception for the first input comprises:
determining that the time of reception for the button input corresponds to a given time when the input interface detects the button input.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein responsive to receiving the first input, determining the time of reception for the first input comprises:
determining that the time of reception for the first input corresponds to a given time when the computing system receives the first input from the first source.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying, by the computing system on the display interface, the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID with the first indicator in the first temporal position comprises:
displaying the first indicator in the first temporal position such that the first indicator is displayed at a beginning of a subset of parameters of the first set of parameters that correspond to the first PID.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying, by the computing system on the display interface, the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID with the first indicator in the first temporal position comprises:
displaying the first indicator in the first temporal position such that the first indicator is displayed at an end of a subset of parameters of the first set of parameters that correspond to the first PID.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying, by the computing system on the display interface, the graph of the first set of parameters corresponding to the first PID with the first indicator in the first temporal position comprises:
displaying the first indicator in the first temporal position such that the first indicator is displayed in between a subset of parameters of the first set of parameters that correspond to the first PID.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the computing system is coupled to the vehicle via a wired connection.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving, at the computing system, the first set of parameters from the vehicle comprises:
receiving, via a vehicle communication link arranged for carrying vehicle data messages according to a vehicle data message protocol, the first se

Assignees

• Snap On Tools Corp

Inventors

• Covington Joshua C
• Merg Patrick S
• Foreman Jacob G

Classifications

• G06Q10/00 Primary

  Administration; Management · CPC title

• G07C5/0825

  using optical means · CPC title

• G06Q10/06

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

• G07C5/002 Primary

  Analysing tachograph charts (arrangements for graph-reading in general G06K11/00) · CPC title

• G10L15/26

  Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence) · CPC title