# US 2017/0286784 A1 · Infrastructure-Device Status-Verification System For Automated Vehicles > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0286784 A1 - Document ID: US20170286784A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/083,520 - Filed: 2016-03-29 - Published: 2017-10-05 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-29 - Assignees: Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Applicants: Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Inventors: Gaurav Bhatia; Jong Ho Lee; Junsung Kim - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170286784A1 ## CPC - G06V 20/584: {of vehicle lights or traffic lights} - G06F 11/00: Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring (error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00) - G08G 1/096725: {where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control} - G08G 1/096741: {where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle} - G08G 1/09675: {where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle} - G08G 1/096783: {where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element} - H04B 1/38: Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving - H04L 63/00: {Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00; network architectures or network communication protocols for wireless network security H04W12/00; security arrangements for protecting computers or computer systems against unauthorised activity G06F21/00)} - H04L 67/00: Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications (user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00) - H04W 4/00: Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor - H04W 4/40: for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] - H04W 84/00: Network topologies - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - H04B: TRANSMISSION - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract An infrastructure-device status-verification system suitable for use by an automated vehicle includes a transceiver, an object-detector, and a controller. The transceiver is suitable to install on a host-vehicle. The transceiver is used to receive an indicated-status of an infrastructure-device. The object-detector is suitable to install on the host-vehicle. The object-detector is used to determine a detected-status of the infrastructure-device. The controller is in communication with the transceiver and the object-detector. The controller determines a confirmed-status of the infrastructure-device based on the indicated-status and the detected-status. The system provides for increased confidence and security regarding information about the status of an infrastructure-device such as the traffic-signal (e.g. red, yellow, and green), thereby avoid miss-information caused by, for example, hacking or spoofing of V2I communications from the infrastructure-device, and overcome instances when the field-of-view between the object-detector and the infrastructure-device 26 becomes occluded after the confirmed-status has been established or determined. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An infrastructure-device status-verification system suitable for use by an automated vehicle, said system comprising: a transceiver suitable to install on a host-vehicle, said transceiver used to receive an indicated-status of an infrastructure-device proximate to the host-vehicle; an object-detector suitable to install on the host-vehicle, said object-detector used to determine a detected-status of the infrastructure-device; and a controller in communication with the transceiver and the object-detector, wherein the controller determines a confirmed-status of the infrastructure-device based on the indicated-status and the detected-status. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the object-detector is a camera, the infrastructure-device is a traffic-signal operable to selectively emit a light characterized by a color, and the detected-status and the indicated-status are indicative of the color emitted by the traffic signal. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the object-detector is one of a radar-unit and a lidar-unit, the infrastructure-device is a gate operable to a state including an open-state that allows traffic to pass by the gate and a closed-state that prevents traffic from passing by the gate, and the detected-status and the indicated-status are indicative of the state of the gate. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the controller maintains the confirmed-status based only on the indicated-status for a, occlusion-time when a field-of-view between the object-detector and the infrastructure-device becomes occluded. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the controller maintains the confirmed-status based only on the detected-status for an interruption-time when reception of the indicated-status by the transceiver is interrupted.