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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2004
Applicant:
Akira Shinada, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Akira Shinada, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/0965 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to optical communication equipment and a vehicle control method, and in particular, the present invention is applied to a system utilizing inter-vehicle communication equipment via optical communication to notify information of traffic regulation utilizing optical communication according to an inter-vehicle communication system so that traveling of a vehicle can be controlled easily and reliably even in such a complicated place where a plurality of roads intersect as in urban cities or the like.