Method and system for rear status detection
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsConrad Delbert Seaman, Derek John Kuhn, Stephen West
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Abstract
A method for identifying a loading bay at a facility to which a vehicle is reversing, the method including determining, at a sensor apparatus connected with the vehicle, that the vehicle is reversing; capturing an image of the loading bay; and determining, from the image, the loading bay at the facility to which the vehicle is reversing.
Claims19
A method for identifying a loading bay at a facility to which a vehicle is reversing, the method comprising:
- determining, at a sensor apparatus connected with the vehicle, that the vehicle is reversing;
- capturing, at the sensor apparatus, a plurality of short range signals, each of the plurality of short range signals identifying a different loading bay;
- and
- determining, from a signal strength of each of the plurality of short range signals, the loading bay at the facility to which the vehicle is reversing.
A sensor apparatus connected with a vehicle configured for identifying a loading bay at a facility to which the vehicle is reversing, the sensor apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- an image capture sensor;
- and
- a communications subsystem,
- wherein the sensor apparatus is configured to:
- determine that the vehicle is reversing;
- capture a plurality of short range signals, each of the plurality of short range signals being identifying a different loading bay;
- and
- determine, from a signal strength of each of the plurality of short range signals, the loading bay at the facility to which the vehicle is reversing.
A computer readable medium for storing instruction code, which when executed by a processor on a sensor apparatus connected with a vehicle cause the sensor apparatus to identify a loading bay at a facility to which the vehicle is reversing, the instruction code configured to:
- determine that the vehicle is reversing;
- capture a plurality of short range signals, each of the plurality of short range signals being identifying a different loading bay;
- and
- determine, from a signal strength of each of the plurality of short range signals, the loading bay at the facility to which the vehicle is reversing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.