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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gautam K. Bhat, Kardri, IN;

Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);

Kevin C. McConnell, Austin, TX (US);

Minh Q. Pham, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/09 (2006.01); G08G 1/0962 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/09623 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for alerting a driver to a status of a traffic signal are disclosed. A computer-implemented method includes: detecting, by a computing device, that a vehicle is stopped at an intersection with a traffic signal; determining, by the computing device, an attention focus area of a driver of the vehicle; determining, by the computing device, a target display device based on the determined attention focus area; and causing, by the computing device, the determined target display device to display information to alert the driver of a status of the traffic signal.


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