Apparatus for providing traffic light information, a system having the same and a method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorHee An Yu
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Abstract
A traffic light information providing apparatus, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof may include: a storage configured to accumulate and store intersection traffic light information; and a processor configured to convert turn-on information of a traffic light of an intersection in front of a vehicle into a database in the storage during driving of the vehicle, and configured to pre-provide a user with traffic light information at the intersection or traffic light information at a crosswalk in a turning direction before or while passing through the intersection based on the converted database of the turn-on information of the intersection traffic light.
Claims20
A traffic light information providing apparatus comprising:
- a storage configured to accumulate and store intersection traffic light information;
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- a processor configured to convert turn-on information of a traffic light of an intersection in front of a vehicle into a database in the storage during driving of the vehicle and configured to pre-provide a user with traffic light information at the intersection or traffic light information at a crosswalk in a rotation direction before or while passing through the intersection based on the converted database of the turn-on information of the intersection traffic light.
A vehicle system comprising:
- an image acquisition device configured to acquire turn-on information of an intersection traffic light in front;
- a traffic light information providing apparatus configured to convert turn-on information of a traffic light of an intersection in front of a vehicle into a database during driving of the vehicle and configured to pre-provide a user with traffic light information at the intersection or traffic light information at a crosswalk in a turning direction before or while passing through the intersection based on the converted database of the turn-on information of the intersection traffic light;
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- a vehicle display configured to display the traffic light information.
A traffic light information providing method comprising:
- collecting turn-on information of an intersection traffic light in front while a vehicle drives and converting it into a database;
- generating traffic light information at an intersection or traffic light information at a crosswalk in a turning direction before or while passing through the intersection based on the converted database of the turn-on information of the intersection traffic light;
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- pre-providing a user with the intersection traffic light information or the crosswalk traffic light information in the rotation direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.