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US 10,945,116 B2Granted
Inter-vehicle communication system for broadcasting a message based upon emergency conditions
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsJu Won Kim, Joon Young Kim, Dong Uk Kim, Jeong Won Lee
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Abstract
A method of controlling an inter-vehicle communication system includes: monitoring a current situation based on at least one piece of input information; determining whether the current situation corresponds to an emergency condition; preparing a message corresponding to the emergency condition upon determining that the current situation corresponds to the emergency condition; and broadcasting the prepared message to at least one neighboring vehicle.
Claims17
A method of controlling an inter-vehicle communication system, the method comprising:
- monitoring a current situation based on at least one piece of input information;
- determining whether the current situation corresponds to an emergency condition;
- preparing a first message corresponding to the emergency condition upon determining that the current situation corresponds to the emergency condition;
- and
- broadcasting the first message to at least one neighboring vehicle,
- wherein the determining includes determining an emergency level corresponding to the emergency condition among a plurality of predetermined emergency levels, and
- wherein the broadcasting includes determining whether a driver confirms the first message before transmission according to the determined emergency level.
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A vehicle comprising:
- an information input unit configured to acquire at least one piece of input image;
- and
- an inter-vehicle communication system configured to:
- monitor a current situation based on the at least one piece of input information,
- determine whether the current situation corresponds to an emergency condition,
- prepare a first message corresponding to the emergency condition upon determining that the current situation corresponds to the emergency condition, and
- broadcast the first message to at least one neighboring vehicle,
- wherein the inter-vehicle communication system determines an emergency level corresponding to the emergency condition among a plurality of predetermined emergency levels, and determines whether a driver confirms the first message before transmission according to the determined emergency level.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.