Vehicle as a traffic management coordinator
OwnerBrendan Diamond, Keith Weston +2inventors
InventorsBrendan Diamond, Keith Weston, Matthew Penne, Stuart C. Salter
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Abstract
A vehicle including a transceiver, a vehicle component and a processor is disclosed. The transceiver may receive an input associated with traffic management at a geographical area. The vehicle component may output a visual signal. The visual signal may facilitate in the traffic management at the geographical area. The processor may obtain the input from the transceiver, and determine a type of the visual signal to output based on the input. The processor may generate a command signal for the vehicle component based on the type, and actuate the vehicle component based on the command signal.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a transceiver configured to receive an input associated with traffic management at a geographical area;
- one or more vehicle components configured to output a visual signal, wherein the visual signal facilitates in the traffic management at the geographical area, and wherein the one or more vehicle components comprises a vehicle display unit located at an exterior portion of the vehicle and configured to display a plurality of textual messages;
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- a processor configured to:
- obtain the input from the transceiver;
- determine a type of the visual signal to output based on the input;
- generate a command signal for the one or more vehicle components based on the type of the visual signal;
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- actuate the one or more vehicle components based on the command signal such that the vehicle display unit displays one or more of the plurality of textual messages.
A method comprising:
- obtaining, by a processor, an input associated with traffic management at a geographical area;
- determining, by the processor, a type of a visual signal to output based on the input, wherein the visual signal facilitates in the traffic management at the geographical area;
- generating, by the processor, a command signal for one or more vehicle components based on the type of the visual signal, wherein the one or more vehicle components comprises a vehicle display unit located at an exterior portion of the vehicle and configured to display a plurality of textual messages;
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- actuating, by the processor, the one or more vehicle components based on the command signal such that the vehicle display unit displays one or more of the plurality of textual messages.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- obtain an input associated with traffic management at a geographical area;
- determine a type of a visual signal to output based on the input, wherein the visual signal facilitates in the traffic management at the geographical area;
- generate a command signal for one or more vehicle components based on the type of the visual signal, wherein the one or more vehicle components comprises a vehicle display unit located at an exterior portion of the vehicle and configured to display a plurality of textual messages;
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- actuate the one or more vehicle components based on the command signal such that the vehicle display unit displays one or more of the plurality of textual messages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.