Visual cue system for roadways
AssigneeCavnue Technology, LLC
InventorDemetrios Vasili Kellari
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Abstract
Implementations of a visual cue system for conveying road state data to one or more vehicles traveling on a roadway can include a set of visual cue units that receive road state data and selectively issue a visual cue based on the road state data, at least one visual cue unit including a data processing unit configured to process the road state data and determine a light pattern based on a set of light pattern generation rules, and a light pattern display that selectively issues at least a portion of the light pattern to the one or more vehicles traveling on the roadway.
Claims20
A visual cue system for conveying road state data to one or more vehicles traveling on a roadway, the visual cue system comprising:
- a set of visual cue units that receive road state data and selectively issue a visual cue based on the road state data, at least one visual cue unit comprising:
- a data processing unit, and
- a light pattern display that selectively issues at least a portion of a light pattern to the one or more vehicles traveling on the roadway;
- and
- at least one data processing unit of the set of visual cue units communicatively coupled to one or more storage devices on which are stored instructions that are operable, when executed by the at least one data processing unit, to cause the at least one data processing unit to perform operations comprising:
- receiving road state data,
- determining, from a plurality of candidate types of light patterns, a type for a light pattern based on a capability of a vehicle that the light pattern is targeted to,
- determining the light pattern based on the road state data and the type for the light pattern, and
- issuing the light pattern on one or more light pattern displays of the set of visual cue units.
A method performed by at least one data processing unit of a set of visual cue units comprised in a visual cue system, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the at least one data processing unit, road state data;
- determining, by the at least one data processing unit and from a plurality of candidate types of light patterns, a type for a light pattern based on a capability of a vehicle that the light pattern is targeted to;
- determining, by the at least one data processing unit, the light pattern based on the road state data and the type for the light pattern;
- and
- issuing, by the at least one data processing unit, the light pattern on one or more light pattern displays of the set of visual cue units to the vehicle that the light pattern is targeted to.
One or more non-transitory storage media encoded with instructions that when executed by at least one data processing unit of a set of visual cue units comprised in a visual cue system cause the at least one data processing unit to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by the at least one data processing unit, road state data;
- determining, by the at least one data processing unit and from a plurality of candidate types of light patterns, a type for a light pattern based on a capability of a vehicle that the light pattern is targeted to;
- determining, by the at least one data processing unit, the light pattern based on the road state data and the type for the light pattern;
- and
- issuing, by the at least one data processing unit, the light pattern on one or more light pattern displays of the set of visual cue units to the vehicle that the light pattern is targeted to.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.