Road hazard communication
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsTomer Rider, Aviv Ron, Yair Giwnewer
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Abstract
Apparatus, systems, and/or methods may involve reporting a road hazard. Road hazard data may be collected for an object on a road, which may include automatically generated data from a device associated with the object causing a hazard. The road hazard data may be provided to a service, an application, a device, a client, and so on. For example, the road hazard data may be merged with a map and provided to a map services client, a navigation client, and so on. An alert may be generated based on the road hazard data to warn of the hazard caused by the object. The alert may include a visual and/or audio representation of the hazard data. The alert may be used to automatically and/or manually avoid the hazard.
Claims22
An apparatus comprising:
- a data collector module at a server located remotely from a road to collect road hazard data for an object on the road, wherein the object is to include one or more of a vehicle or a bicycle, and wherein the road hazard data is to include automatically generated data from a device on the road associated with the object that is to indicate a hazard is created and that is to be provided to the server in response to when the vehicle veers across a lane divider for a travel lane of the road to create the hazard or when the bicycle is positioned in the travel lane of the road to create the hazard;
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- an interface module at the server to provide the road hazard data to a service module at a specific service provider of a plurality of service providers that are allowed to access the road hazard data from the server, wherein the specific service provider is located remotely from the road and the server and is to access the road hazard data via an application programming interface that is to provide one or more of push access or pull access to the road hazard data, and wherein an alert is to be generated based on the road hazard data and is to include a visual alert on a map that is to be rendered to a client of the specific service provider on a display at an approaching object to warn of the hazard by the object.
At least one computer-readable medium comprising one or more instructions that when executed on a server located remotely from a road cause the server to:
- collect road hazard data for an object on the road, wherein the object is to include one or more of a vehicle or a bicycle, and wherein the road hazard data is to include automatically generated data from a device on the road associated with the object that is to indicate a hazard is created and that is to be provided to the server in response to when the vehicle veers across a lane divider for a travel lane of the road to create the hazard or when the bicycle is positioned in the travel lane of the road to create the hazard;
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- provide the road hazard data to a service module at a specific service provider of a plurality of service providers that are allowed to access the road hazard data from the server, wherein the specific service provider is located remotely from the road and the server and is to access the road hazard data via an application programming interface that is to provide one or more of push access or pull access to the road hazard data, and wherein an alert is to be generated based on the road hazard data and is to include a visual alert on a map that is to be rendered to a client of the specific service provider on a display at an approaching object to warn of the hazard by the object.
A method comprising:
- collecting road hazard data for an object on a road at a server located remotely from the road, wherein the object includes one or more of a vehicle or a bicycle, and wherein the road hazard data includes automatically generated data from a device on the road associated with the object that indicates a hazard is created and that is provided to the server in response to when the vehicle veers across a lane divider for a travel lane of the road to create the hazard or when the bicycle is positioned in the travel lane of the road to create the hazard;
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- providing at the server the road hazard data to a service module at a specific service provider of a plurality of service providers that are allowed to access the road hazard data from the server, wherein the specific service provider is located remotely from the road and the server and accesses the road hazard data via an application programming interface that provides one or more of push access or pull access to the road hazard data, and wherein an alert is generated based on the road hazard data and includes a visual alert on a map that is rendered to a client of the specific service provider on a display at an approaching object to warn of the hazard by the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.