Automatic vehicle recognition and customer automobile diagnostic system
AssigneeExxon Research & Engineering Co.
InventorsGerard J. Hughes, Leonard J. Duncan, David P. Goshorn, James P. Stokes
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Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for identifying a vehicle for the purpose of displaying diagnostic information to the driver. Each vehicle includes a transponder that transmits an encoded character sequence that is unique to that vehicle. In this way vehicle diagnostic measurements made at the establishment entrance can be associated with the vehicle, and displayed to the customer when the vehicle is recognized again at a service area.
Claims20
A service station method for recognizing a vehicle and displaying remotely taken diagnostic information comprising:
- (a) recognizing a vehicle that enters said service station;
- (b) making a diagnostic measurement of said vehicle;
- (c) associating said diagnostic measurement with said recognized vehicle;
- (d) re-recognizing said vehicle as it moves to and stops at a service area, which is at a different position from where said diagnostic measurement is made, of said service station;
- (e) associating said diagnostic measurement with said re-recognized vehicle;
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- (f) presenting said diagnostic measurement at said service area in view of said vehicle.
A service station system for recognizing a vehicle and displaying remotely taken diagnostic information comprising:
- (a) means for recognizing a vehicle that enters said service station;
- (b) means for making a diagnostic measurement of said vehicle;
- (c) means for associating said diagnostic measurement with said recognized vehicle;
- (d) means for re-recognizing said vehicle as it moves to and stops at a service area, which is at a different position from where said diagnostic measurement is made, of said service station;
- (e) means for associating said diagnostic measurement with said re-recognized vehicle;
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- (f) means for presenting said diagnostic measurement at said service area in view of said vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.