# US 10,319,231 B2 · System and method for providing driver with preliminary notification > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,319,231 B2 - Document ID: US10319231B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/616,215 - Filed: 2017-06-07 - Published: 2018-12-13 - Granted: 2019-06-11 - Earliest claimed: 2017-06-07 - Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc.; Denso Corporation - Applicants: DENSO International America, Inc. - Inventors: Aaron Weinfield - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10319231B2 ## CPC - G08G 1/096791: {where the origin of the information is another vehicle} - B60W 30/18027: {Drive off, accelerating from standstill} - B60W 50/0097: {Predicting future conditions} - B60W 50/14: Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention - G08G 1/09623: {Systems involving the acquisition of information from passive traffic signs by means mounted on the vehicle (G08G1/0967 takes precedence)} - G08G 1/096716: {where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control} - G08G 1/096758: {where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information} - B60W 2050/146: {Display means} - B60W 2554/804: Relative longitudinal speed - B60W 2556/65: Data transmitted between vehicles - G08G 1/22: {Platooning, i.e. convoy of communicating vehicles} - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - B60W: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT ## Abstract The present disclosure provides a system for providing a driver of a host vehicle being stopped with a preliminary notification that remote vehicles forming a queue in front of the host vehicle are likely to start moving. The system includes a receiver, a notifying device, a determiner, and a controller. The receiver is configured to receive messages from the remote vehicles through Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications. The notifying device is configured to provide the driver with the preliminary notification. The determiner is configured to determine whether a specified vehicle among the remote vehicles other than a preceding vehicle directly ahead of the specified vehicle starts moving based on the messages sent from the specified vehicle. The controller is configured to control the notifying device to provide the preliminary notification when the determiner determines that the specified vehicle starts moving. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for providing a driver of a host vehicle being stopped with a preliminary notification that two or more remote vehicles forming a queue in front of the host vehicle are likely to start moving, the system comprising: a receiver configured to receive messages from the two or more remote vehicles through Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications; a notifying device configured to provide the driver with the preliminary notification; a determiner configured to (i) identify a remote vehicle among the two or more remote vehicles that is directly ahead of the host vehicle as a preceding vehicle and a remote vehicle among the two or more remote vehicles that is not the preceding vehicle as a specified vehicle and (ii) determine whether the specified vehicle starts moving based on the messages sent from the specified vehicle; and a controller configured to control the notifying device to provide the preliminary notification when the determiner determines that the specified vehicle starts moving. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the determiner identifies, as the specified vehicle, a remote vehicle among the two or more remote vehicles that is directly ahead of the preceding vehicle. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the two or more remote vehicles include connected vehicles capable of communicating with the host vehicle through the V2V communications and non-connected vehicles not capable of communicating with the host vehicle, and the determiner identifies, as the specified vehicle, one of the connected vehicles that is closest to the host vehicle among the connected vehicles. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the two or more remote vehicles include connected vehicles capable of communicating with the host vehicle through the V2V communications and non-connected vehicles not capable of communicating with the host vehicle, the connected vehicles are grouped into first grouped vehicles within a specified distance away from the host vehicle and second grouped vehicles outside the specified distance away from the host vehicle, and the determiner identifies, as the specified vehicle, one of the first grouped vehicles that starts moving first. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the two or more remote vehicles include connected vehicles capable of communicating with the host vehicle through the V2V communications and non-connected vehicles not capable of communicating with the host vehicle, the determiner determines, as the preceding vehicle, one of the connected vehicles, the determiner is further configured to determine, based on the messages sent from the preceding vehicle, whether the preceding vehicle starts moving after the notifying device provided the preliminary notification, and the controller controls the notifying device to provide the driver with an actual notification that the host vehicle should begin moving when the determiner determines that the preceding vehicle starts moving. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The system according to claim 5, wherein the determiner is further configured to determine whether the host vehicle has not moved for a specified time period since the notifying device provided the actual notification, and the controller controls the notifying device to provide the driver with an additional notification to urge the driver to start the host vehicle when the determiner determines that the host vehicle has not moved for the specified time period. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The system according to claim 6, wherein the notifying device includes an audio system, and the notifying device provides the driver with the additional notification by generating an additional notification sound from the audio system to the driver. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The system according to claim 5, wherein the notifying device includes a display, and the notifying device provides the driver with the actual notification by showing an actual notification image on the display to the driver. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, further comprising a sensor obtaining information associated with the two or more remote vehicles, wherein the determiner is further configured to determine, based on the information obtained by the sensor, whether the preceding vehicle starts moving after the notifying device provided the preliminary notification, wherein the controller controls the notifying device to provide the driver with an actual notification that the host vehicle should begin moving when the determiner determines that the preceding vehicle starts moving. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system according to claim 9, wherein the determiner is further configured to determine whether the host vehicle has not moved for a specified time period since the notifying device provided the actual notification, and the controller controls the notifying device to provide the driver with an additional notification to urge the driver to start the host vehicle when the determiner determines that the host vehicle has not moved for the specified time period. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system according to claim 10, wherein the notifying device includes an audio system, and the notifying device provides the driver with the additional notification by generating an additional notification sound from the audio system to the driver. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The system according to claim 9, wherein the notifying device includes a display, and the notifying device provides the driver with the actual notification by showing an actual notification image on the display to the driver. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The system according to claim 1, wherein the notifying device includes a display, and the notifying device provides the driver with the preliminary notification by showing a preliminary notification image on the display to the driver. ### Claim 14 A method for providing a driver of a host vehicle being stopped with a preliminary notification that two or more remote vehicles forming a queue in front of the host vehicle are likely to start moving, the method comprising a step of: receiving, with a receiver, messages from the two or more remote vehicles through Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications; identifying a remote vehicle among the two or more remote vehicles that is directly ahead of the host vehicle as a preceding vehicle and a remote vehicle among the two or more remote vehicles that is not the preceding vehicle as a specified vehicle, determining, with a determiner, whether the specified vehicle starts moving based on the messages sent from the specified vehicle; and controlling, with a controller, a notifying device to provide the preliminary notification when the determiner determines that the specified vehicle starts moving. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the determiner determines, as the specified vehicle, a remote vehicle among the two more remote vehicles that is directly ahead of the preceding vehicle. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the two or more remote vehicles include connected vehicles capable of communicating with the host vehicle through the V2V communications and non-connected vehicles not capable of communicating with the host vehicle, and the determiner determines, as the specified vehicle, one of the connected vehicles that is closest to the host vehicle among the connected vehicles. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the two or more remote vehicles include connected vehicles capable of communicating with the host vehicle through the V2V communications and non-connected vehicles not capable of communicating with the host vehicle, the connected vehicles are grouped into first grouped vehicles within a specified distance away from the host vehicle and second grouped vehicles outside the specified distance away from the host vehicle, and the determiner determines, as the specified vehicle, one of the first grouped vehicles that starts moving first. ### Claim 18 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, wherein the two or more remote vehicles include connected vehicles capable of communicating with the host vehicle through the V2V communications and non-connected vehicles not capable of communicating with the host vehicle, the determiner determines, as the preceding vehicle, one of the connected vehicles, the method further includes determining, with the determiner based on the messages sent from the preceding vehicle, whether the preceding vehicle starts moving after the notifying device provided the preliminary notification, and the controller controls the notifying device to provide the driver with an actual notification that the host vehicle should begin moving when the determiner determines that the preceding vehicle starts moving. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method according to claim 18, further comprising determining, with the determiner, whether the host vehicle has not moved for a specified time period since the notifying device provided the actual notification, wherein the controller controls the notifying device to provide the driver with an additional notification to urge the driver to start the host vehicle when the determiner determines that the host vehicle has not moved for the specified time period. ### Claim 20 (depends on 14) The method according to claim 14, further comprising obtaining, with a sensor, information associated with the two or more remote vehicles, and determining, with the determiner based on the information obtained by the sensor, whether the preceding vehicle starts moving after the notifying device provided the preliminary notification, wherein the controller controls the notifying device to provide the driver with an actual notification that the host vehicle should begin moving when the determiner determines that the preceding vehicle starts moving.