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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Stephen Jay Orris, Jr., New Boston, MI (US);
David A. Herman, Southfield, MI (US);
Nicholas Alexander Scheufler, Flat Rock, MI (US);
Nunzio DeCia, Northville, MI (US);
David Michael Herman, Southfield, MI (US);
David Joseph Orris, Southgate, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
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.