Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle monitoring of infrastructure lighting
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Application No.: US15845270Application Date: 2017-12-18
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Publication No.: US10402666B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Stephen Jay Orris, Jr. , David A. Herman , Nicholas Alexander Scheufler , Nunzio DeCia , David Michael Herman , David Joseph Orris
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
- Agent Frank Lollo; James P. Muraff
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; B60R11/04 ; G06T7/73 ; G08G1/0967 ; G08G1/097

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for vehicle monitoring of infrastructure lighting, an example of which includes a vehicle having a camera, an inter-vehicle communication module and a controller. The controller is to identify a stationary infrastructure object within an image captured by the camera and identify, in response to determining that the stationary infrastructure object includes a lamp, whether the lamp is inoperable. The controller also is to send, via vehicle-to-infrastructure communication utilizing the inter-vehicle communication module, an alert to an infrastructure communication node indicating that the lamp is inoperable.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190188503A1 VEHICLE MONITORING OF INFRASTRUCTURE LIGHTING Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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