Patent ID: 9324201
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G07C

Claim Text:
1. A vehicular image processing apparatus mountable in a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a camera module to acquire an external image of the vehicle; an impact detector to detect an accident event occurring with respect to the vehicle; a controller to access an external server to request for recorded data associated with the accident event in the external server; and a communication unit to receive the recorded data from the external server, wherein the controller is configured to determine an operation mode based on at least one of the external image acquired by the camera module and detection of the accident event by the impact detector, and upload the external image of the vehicle to a backup server in response to determining that the operation mode is a normal mode in which the accident event is not detected, and upload the external image of the vehicle to the external server to be shared via the network in response to determining that the operation mode is a sharing mode in which the accident event is detected, wherein upon detecting, by the impact detector, the accident event occurring with respect to the vehicle, the controller is configured to control a peripheral vehicle to transmit the recorded data to the external server.