Method and device for controlling in-vehicle signage
AssigneeModas Technology Limited
InventorsDamian Andrew Horton, Marcus Simon Edward Robbins, Anna Rachel Corp
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Abstract
A device for controlling in-vehicle signage is disposed to provide a physical indication of a particular in-vehicle sign. The data defining the particular sign is associated with data defining a trigger point for causing the occurrence of the indication of the particular sign. The device is adapted for control by a processor that is responsive to a conflict between the particular sign and at least one of another sign or a message and is disposed to alter the data defining the trigger point to remove the conflict. The trigger point is defined by the intersection of the path of a vehicle and a trigger zone extending spatially from a defined location of the particular sign.
Claims10
A computerized method of controlling the physical indications of an in-vehicle message and at least one other message, wherein respective data defining each message is associated with data for causing a physically perceptible indication of said each message, the method comprising:
- detecting a potential temporal conflict of occurrence between the in-vehicle message and said other message;
- and
- shifting in time the occurrence of at least one of the indications relative to the other of the said indications to remove the temporal conflict;
- the method further including:
- using, for causing said at least one of the indications, a trigger point at an intersection of a direction of travel of a vehicle and a perimeter of a trigger region extending spatially from a defined location for the message of which the respective indication is shifted;
- and
- shifting said trigger point to cause said shifting in time of the occurrence of said at least one of the indications.
A computerized method of controlling the physical indications of a first message defining an in-vehicle sign and a second message, wherein respective data defining each message is associated with data for causing a physically perceptible indication of said each message, the method comprising:
- detecting a potential temporal conflict of occurrence between said first and second messages;
- and
- shifting in time the occurrence of the indication of said first message relative to the indication of said second message to remove the temporal conflict, the method further including:
- using, for causing the indication of said first message, a trigger point at an intersection of a direction of travel of a vehicle and a perimeter of a trigger region extending spatially from a defined location for said in-vehicle sign;
- and
- shifting said trigger point to cause said shifting in time of the occurrence of the indication of said first message, wherein the shifting of the trigger point comprises at least one of shifting said defined location and altering a relationship between said defined location and said trigger point.
A computerized system for controlling the physical indications of an in-vehicle message and at least one other message, wherein the data defining each message is associated with data for causing a physically perceptible indication of each message, the system comprising:
- a processor that is responsive to a potential temporal conflict of occurrence between the in-vehicle message and said other message to shift in time the occurrence at least one of the indications relative to the other of the indications to remove the temporal conflict, the processor being responsive, for causing said at least one of the indications, to a trigger point at the intersection of the direction of travel of a vehicle and a perimeter of a trigger region extending spatially from a defined location for the message of which the respective indication is shifted, and disposed to shift said trigger point to cause the shifting in time of the occurrence of said at least one of the indications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.