Driving safety enhancing system and method for making or enabling highly accurate judgment and providing advance early warning
A driving safety enhancing system and method for making or enabling highly accurate judgment and providing advance early warning essentially include an information collection module for sensing, and thereby obtaining information about, the surroundings of a vehicle to which the system is applied; a processing unit for analysis and judgment; and a positioning and communication module for carrying out sharing and exchange of positioning signals and positioning information, thereby increasing the range within which targets can be sensed, and the number of targets that can be sensed, for analysis and judgment by the processing unit, the objective being to increase the accuracy of judgment and provide necessary warning as early as possible so that the driver of the vehicle will be warned of an imminent emergency in advance and can therefore drive comfortably and safely.
1. A method for making or enabling highly accurate judgment and providing advance early warning, wherein the method is applied to a driving safety enhancing system, the driving safety enhancing system comprises an information collection module and a processing unit, the information collection module comprises a plurality of on-board sensors for sensing surroundings of a vehicle at issue and thereby obtaining sensing information of the vehicle at issue, and the processing unit is connected to the information collection module and is configured for identifying people or vehicles around the vehicle at issue according to the sensing information and, after analysis and judgment, outputting a control signal if necessary, the method being characterized by comprising the steps of:
providing a positioning and communication module connected to the processing unit;
obtaining positioning signals via the positioning and communication module, determining locations of the vehicle at issue and of the people or vehicles around the vehicle at issue according to the positioning signals, and thereby obtaining positioning information of the vehicle at issue;
obtaining extended positioning information of other people or vehicles via the positioning and communication module through wireless communication;
combining and cross-comparing the positioning information of the vehicle at issue and the extended positioning information in order to identify all people or vehicles within a predetermined range of the vehicle at issue, wherein the predetermined range of the vehicle at issue is increased or decreased with a speed of the vehicle at issue; and
analyzing and judging changes in moving states of all the people or vehicles in order to output the control signal if necessary, wherein said analyzing and judging the changes in the moving states of all the people or vehicles comprises
performing a time sequence analysis on moving courses and momentum of all the people or vehicles,
generating distance-related alert values according to a moving course and momentum of the vehicle at issue, and
upon determining that the momentum of a said person or vehicle at a distance from the vehicle at issue is lower than a corresponding one of the alert values, outputting the control signal.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the positioning and communication module comprises a wireless communication unit for connecting with a wireless communication network, obtaining location-based service (LBS) positioning signals through the wireless communication network, and transmitting the positioning information of the vehicle at issue and the extended positioning information through the wireless communication network.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the positioning and communication module further comprises a satellite positioning unit for receiving satellite positioning signals.
4. A driving safety enhancing system for making or enabling highly accurate judgment and providing advance early warning, comprising
an information collection module and a processing unit, wherein
the information collection module comprises a plurality of on-board sensors for sensing surroundings of a vehicle at issue and thereby obtaining sensing information of the vehicle at issue, and
the processing unit is connected to the information collection module and is configured for identifying people or vehicles around the vehicle at issue according to the sensing information and, after analysis and judgment, outputting a control signal if necessary, the driving safety enhancing system being characterized in that:
the driving safety enhancing system further comprises a positioning and communication module,
wherein the positioning and communication module is connected to the processing unit and is configured for obtaining positioning signals and transmitting positioning information;
wherein the processing unit is configured for
determining locations of the vehicle at issue and of the people or vehicles around the vehicle at issue according to the positioning signals and thereby obtaining positioning information of the vehicle at issue;
obtaining extended positioning information of other people or vehicles via the positioning and communication module;
combining and cross-comparing the positioning information of the vehicle at issue and the extended positioning information in order to identify all people or vehicles within a predetermined range of the vehicle at issue; and
analyzing and judging changes in moving states of all the people or vehicles in order to output the control signal if necessary; and
wherein the processing unit is an electronic control unit (ECU) and is configured for
performing a time sequence analysis on moving courses and momentum of all the people or vehicles,
generating distance-related alert values according to a moving course and momentum of the vehicle at issue, and
upon determining that the momentum of a said person or vehicle at a distance from the vehicle at issue is lower than a corresponding one of the alert values, outputting the control signal.
5. The driving safety enhancing system of claim 4 , wherein the positioning and communication module comprises a wireless communication unit for connecting with a wireless communication network, obtaining location-based service (LBS) positioning signals through the wireless communication network, and transmitting the positioning information of the vehicle at issue and the extended positioning information through the wireless communication network.
6. The driving safety enhancing system of claim 5 , wherein the positioning and communication module further comprises a satellite positioning unit for receiving satellite positioning signals.
7. The driving safety enhancing system of claim 4 , wherein the on-board sensors are one, or a combination of at least two, of millimeter wave radars, ultrasonic radars, thermal radars, optical radars, and image sensors.
8. The driving safety enhancing system of claim 5 , wherein the on-board sensors are one, or a combination of at least two, of millimeter wave radars, ultrasonic radars, thermal radars, optical radars, and image sensors.
9. The driving safety enhancing system of claim 6 , wherein the on-board sensors are one, or a combination of at least two, of millimeter wave radars, ultrasonic radars, thermal radars, optical radars, and image sensors.