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US 2024/0424980 A1Published application
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;
- a camera that shoots surroundings of an own vehicle;
- a control unit that displays a pattern by causing the light-emitting part to blink in conjunction with operation of the windshield wiper;
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- a processing unit that acquires a pattern displayed by blinking of the light-emitting part of another vehicle, based on an image shot by the camera.
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