Device, system and method for controlling autonomous vehicles using a visual notification device
AssigneeMotorola Solutions, Inc.
InventorsPiotr Fiszer, Mateusz Smetek, Tomasz Wicherski
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Abstract
A device, system and method for controlling autonomous vehicles using a visual notification device. A movement detector is used to detect a user gesture of a user. A controller in communication with the movement detector is used to control a visual notification device to provide a visual indication of the user gesture combined with authentication data stored at a memory, to visually instruct the autonomous vehicle to perform an action associated with the user gesture upon verification of the authentication data.
Claims16
A device for visually communicating with an autonomous vehicle, the device comprising:
- a visual notification device comprising one or more of:
- a display screen;
- a color display screen;
- one or more light emitting diodes;
- and a light emitting diode array;
- a memory storing authentication data;
- and
- a controller in communication with a movement detector,
- the controller communicatively coupled to the visual notification device and the memory,
- the controller configured to:
- detect, using the movement detector, a user gesture of a user;
- and
- control the visual notification device to provide a visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data to visually instruct the autonomous vehicle to perform an action associated with the user gesture upon verification of the authentication data,
- wherein the visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data comprises one or more of:
- one or more flashing colors;
- one or more colored visual indications;
- and one or more red-green-blue visual indications.
A method for visually communicating with an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting, using a movement detector, a user gesture of a user;
- and
- controlling, using a controller in communication with the movement detector, a visual notification device to provide a visual indication of the user gesture combined with authentication data stored at a memory, to visually instruct the autonomous vehicle to perform an action associated with the user gesture upon verification of the authentication data,
- wherein the visual notification device comprises one or more of:
- a display screen;
- a color display screen;
- one or more light emitting diodes;
- and a light emitting diode array, and
- wherein the visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data comprises one or more of:
- one or more flashing colors;
- one or more colored visual indications;
- and one or more red-green-blue visual indications.
A system comprising:
- an autonomous vehicle comprising a camera;
- and
- a device for visually communicating with the autonomous vehicle, the device comprising:
- a visual notification device comprising one or more of:
- a display screen;
- a color display screen;
- one or more light emitting diodes;
- and a light emitting diode array;
- a memory storing authentication data;
- and a controller in communication with a movement detector, the controller communicatively coupled to the visual notification device and the memory, the controller configured to:
- detect, using the movement detector, a user gesture of a user;
- and
- control the visual notification device to provide a visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data to visually instruct the autonomous vehicle to perform an action associated with the user gesture upon verification of the authentication data, wherein the visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data comprises one or more of:
- one or more flashing colors;
- one or more colored visual indications;
- and one or more red-green-blue visual indications, and
- the autonomous vehicle configured to:
- detect, using the camera, the visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data;
- verify the visual indication of the user gesture;
- and
- perform the action associated with the user gesture upon verification of the authentication data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.