Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control of traffic signal due to obstructed view
- Patent Title (中): 阻碍视线控制交通信号灯
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Application No.: US13455454Application Date: 2012-04-25
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Publication No.: US08633833B2Publication Date: 2014-01-21
- Inventor: James D. Allen , Teresa L. Davis , Douglas E. Hanthorn
- Applicant: James D. Allen , Teresa L. Davis , Douglas E. Hanthorn
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., LPA
- Agent Patrick J. Daugherty
- Main IPC: G08G1/07
- IPC: G08G1/07 ; G08G1/095

Abstract:
Traffic signal timing may be altered as a function of determining occluded signal viewing. More particularly, processing units may determine that a view of a traffic signal by a person is obstructed by a large vehicle located on a first ingress path to a roadway intersection with a second ingress path. The traffic signal controls the right of way of the first ingress path, and the person with the obstructed view is travelling along the first ingress path toward the intersection and is located behind the large vehicle relative to a view sightline of the person to the traffic signal. In response to the occluded view determination, a transition of the traffic signal may be delayed from a current visual display of a proceed signal to a subsequent visual display of a stop signal, until an end of a delay period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130285840A1 CONTROL OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL DUE TO OBSTRUCTED VIEW Public/Granted day:2013-10-31
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