US 12,233,790 B2
Method for checking at least one vehicle, and electronic computing device
Frank Schweickhardt, Stuttgart (DE); Jessica Gasper, Herrenberg (DE); and Johannes Weiss, Sindelfingen (DE)
Assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/299,418
Filed by Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/080865
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/114724, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 009 451.1 (DE), filed on Dec. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0055557 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 16/023 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 16/0234 (2013.01) [G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G07C 5/0808 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for checking vehicles for malfunctions, comprising:
an accelerometer that records an acceleration of a first vehicle;
a microphone that records a noise of the first vehicle;
a camera that records an image of a first subregion of the first vehicle;
a wireless transceiver that wirelessly connects the device to a back-end system external to the first vehicle and the device;
a processor; and
a touch-screen user interface that displays:
a measurement icon whose touch-selection causes: (a) at least one of: the accelerometer, the microphone, and the camera, to record first measured data characterizing: the acceleration, the noise, and/or the image of the first subregion, of the first vehicle, and (b) the wireless transceiver to transmit the first measured data to the back-end system,
a learning icon whose touch selection causes: (a) at least one of: the accelerometer, the microphone, and the camera, to record the first measured data, (b) the processor to assign a user-selected label characterizing the first measured data to the first measured data, and (c) the wireless transceiver to transmit the first measured data and the user-selected label to the back-end system, and
a diagnostic result received by the wireless transceiver from the back-end system, wherein the diagnostic result constitutes an evaluation of the first measured data by the back-end system for a malfunction in the first vehicle.