Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020377114-A1
Application number	US-201816496657-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 27, 2018
Priority date	Mar 30, 2017
Publication date	Dec 3, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

A driving information generating section 20 successively generates as driving information diverse types of information indicative of a driving state of a vehicle. A dangerous driving determining section 31 determines whether dangerous driving is underway on the basis of the driving information generated by the driving information generating section 20. A supplementary information acquiring section 32 acquires state supplementary information manually or automatically upon determination of dangerous driving by the dangerous driving determining section 31, and associates the acquired state supplementary information with the result of the determination of dangerous driving. An information communication section 34 transmits the result of the determination of dangerous driving and the state supplementary information to an information management apparatus 40. The information management apparatus 40 can recognize the state of the case in which dangerous driving is underway based on the state supplementary information, and correctly determine validity of the result of the determination of dangerous driving.

First claim

1 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
a dangerous driving determining section configured to determine whether dangerous driving is underway on a basis of driving information; and a supplementary information acquiring section configured to acquire state supplementary information upon determination of dangerous driving by the dangerous driving determining section.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section issues an information acquisition instruction to acquire the state supplementary information following the determination of dangerous driving.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section issues the information acquisition instruction by image or by sound.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section presents driving information at a time of the determination of dangerous driving.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the driving information includes a captured peripheral image, and the supplementary information acquiring section performs subject recognition using the captured peripheral image and, upon issuing the information acquisition instruction, presents the captured peripheral image in which a recognized subject is provided with a tag.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section issues the information acquisition instruction at a predetermined instruction timing including a time immediately after the determination of dangerous driving, a time of vehicle stop after the determination of dangerous driving, a time of traveling at a low level of driving difficulty, or a time of driving stop after the determination of dangerous driving.

7 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section issues the information acquisition instruction to a passenger on board.

8 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section issues as the information acquisition instruction an instruction to acquire an objection to the determination of dangerous driving by image, by sound, or by character.

9 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section includes a communication section configured to communicate with an external device positioned nearby so as to acquire the state supplementary information from the external device.

10 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein
the external device is a nearby vehicle, and the supplementary information acquiring section acquires as the state supplementary information the driving information at the time of the determination of dangerous driving.

11 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an information recording section configured to record the state supplementary information acquired by the supplementary information acquiring section in association with the result of the determination of dangerous driving acquired by the dangerous driving determining section.

12 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein
the supplementary information acquiring section adds to the result of the determination of dangerous driving the driving information covering a predetermined time period in reference to the timing of the determination of dangerous driving.

13 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an information transmitting section configured to transmit to an information management apparatus the result of the determination of dangerous driving and the state supplementary information recorded in the information recording section.

14 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein
the information transmitting section transmits the result of the determination of dangerous driving and the state supplementary information associated therewith to the information management apparatus at a predetermined transmission timing including a predetermined date and time, a time upon elapse of a predetermined time period, a time at which an instruction is issued to request or transmit the information, or a time at which the amount of the information recorded in the information recording section has reached a predetermined level.

15 . An information processing method comprising:
causing a dangerous driving determining section to determine whether dangerous driving is underway on a basis of driving information; and causing a supplementary information acquiring section to acquire state supplementary information upon determination of dangerous driving by the dangerous driving determining section.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Noda Atsushi
• OSATO Akihito
• Suzuki Hirotaka
• Matsunaga Hideyuki

Classifications

• B60W2520/28

  Wheel speed · CPC title

• B60W2540/12

  Brake pedal position · CPC title

• B60W2510/0638

  Engine speed · CPC title

• B60W2540/229

  Attention level, e.g. attentive to driving, reading or sleeping · CPC title

• B60W50/14 Primary

  Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention · CPC title