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US 12,263,781 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHayato Mizuma, Makoto Matsushita, Yuko Mizuno, Kohei Miwa, Naoki Yamada
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Abstract
The vehicle includes a light-emitting part installed in the rear windshield wiper, a front camera that captures an image of the front of the own vehicle, a control unit that causes the light-emitting part to blink in conjunction with the operation of the rear windshield wiper to display the pattern, and a processing unit that acquires the pattern displayed by the blink of the light-emitting part of the preceding vehicle based on the image shot by the front camera.
Claims5
A vehicle, comprising:
- a light-emitting part installed on a windshield wiper, the light emitting part including at least one a visible light source or a non-visible light source;
- a camera configured to capture an image of surroundings of the vehicle;
- one or more processors configured to
- display a first pattern by causing the light-emitting part to blink in conjunction with operation of the windshield wiper;
- and
- use the image captured by the camera to acquire a second pattern displayed by a blinking of a light-emitting part of a separate vehicle, wherein
- the one or more processors are further configured to create the first pattern to be a copy of the second pattern.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.