Using automobile driver attention focus area to share traffic intersection status
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGautam K. Bhat, Gregory J. Boss, Kevin C. McConnell, Minh Q. Pham
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Abstract
Systems and methods for alerting a driver to a status of a traffic signal are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: detecting, by a computing device, that a vehicle is stopped at an intersection with a traffic signal; determining, by the computing device, an attention focus area of a driver of the vehicle; determining, by the computing device, a target display device based on the determined attention focus area; and causing, by the computing device, the determined target display device to display information to alert the driver of a status of the traffic signal.
Claims20
A computer program product for alerting a driver to a status of a traffic signal, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device in a vehicle to cause the computing device to:
- detect the vehicle is stopped at an intersection with the traffic signal;
- determine an attention focus area of the driver while the vehicle is stopped at the intersection;
- determine a target display device based on the determined attention focus area;
- and
- cause the determined target display device to display a background color the same as a color of a light illuminated at the traffic signal.
A computer program product for alerting a driver to a status of a traffic signal, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device in a vehicle to cause the computing device to:
- detect the vehicle is stopped at an intersection with the traffic signal;
- determine an attention focus area of the driver while the vehicle is stopped at the intersection;
- determine a target display device based on the determined attention focus area;
- receive a status signal from a traffic signal system associated with the traffic signal;
- compare coordinates of the vehicle to coordinates included in the status signal;
- and
- cause the determined target display device to display a traffic signal icon that displays a color that is the same as a color of a light illuminated at the traffic signal.
A computer program product for alerting a driver to a status of a traffic signal, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device in a vehicle to cause the computing device to:
- detect the vehicle is stopped at an intersection with the traffic signal;
- determine an attention focus area of the driver while the vehicle is stopped at the intersection;
- determine a target display device based on the determined attention focus area;
- receive a status signal from a traffic signal system associated with the traffic signal;
- and
- cause the determined target display device to display directional icons having colors that correspond to colors of lights of the traffic signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.