Communications: electrical – Land vehicle alarms or indicators – Of relative distance from an obstacle
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-16
2009-12-15
Swarthout, Brent (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
Land vehicle alarms or indicators
Of relative distance from an obstacle
C340S903000, C340S937000, C348S148000, C348S149000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07633383
ABSTRACT:
Vehicular situational awareness systems, method and arrangements are disclosed herein. In one embodiment digitized video can be acquired by a camera on a vehicle, and utilizing pixel differentiation at least one area of interest in the digitized video can be identified. The area of interest could be, for example, a group of pixels that represent another vehicle, a sign etc. Attribute information for the area of interest, such as size, movement etc. of an object, can be acquired and then it can be determined if the attribute information is significant enough or important enough to set an alarm condition and notify the driver.
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Barnes Thomas H.
Dunsmoir John W.
Jambunathan Sivakumar
Kinstler Sheryl S.
Walton Carol S.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC
Steinberg William H.
Swarthout Brent
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