Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crowd sourcing exterior vehicle images of traffic conditions
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Application No.: US14465008Application Date: 2014-08-21
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Publication No.: US09918001B2Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: James T. Pisz
- Applicant: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
- Current Assignee: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Agency: Darrow Mustafa PC
- Agent Christopher G. Darrow
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N5/247 ; G08G1/0967

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for crowd sourcing current traffic conditions using an image sensor on a vehicle to record traffic conditions at the vehicle location, date and time stamp the images, and transmit the images along with selected vehicle operating conditions and vehicle coordinates through a network to a central crowd sourcing traffic condition control. The control stores the images and, upon receiving an image request from a vehicle, transmits traffic condition images to the requesting vehicle through the network for a specified roadway segment. A vehicle opted-in to the control can select another opted-in vehicle to have an image taken by the any selected vehicle of a desired road location. The control handles the exchange of a request and an image between the requesting vehicle and the selecting vehicle to enable an instantaneous image of a desired road location to be displayed in the requesting vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160057335A1 CROWD SOURCING EXTERIOR VEHICLE IMAGES OF TRAFFIC CONDITIONS Public/Granted day:2016-02-25
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