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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
May. 16, 2008
Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, TX (US);
Vandana Mallempati, Austin, TX (US);
Steven Michael Miller, Cary, NC (US);
Lisa Anne Seacat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, TX (US);
Vandana Mallempati, Austin, TX (US);
Steven Michael Miller, Cary, NC (US);
Lisa Anne Seacat, San Francisco, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for managing observable information in a front of a vehicle and providing a representation of the information to a rear of the vehicle in the form of a local optical signal is disclosed. The method comprising monitoring, at the vehicle, a remote signal, the remote signal being one selected from the group consisting of: interrupted, changed brightness and steady; determining a status of the monitored remote signal; determining a distance between a vehicle transmitting the remote signal and said vehicle; determining a speed of the vehicle; determining an action responsive to the monitored signal status, the determined distance and the speed, activating a local signal in response to the action, the action causing at least one of an interruption of the local signal at a first known rate and a changed brightness; initiating the local optical signal in response to a local action at the vehicle, wherein the initiation causing at least one of an interruption of the local signal at a second known rate and a changed brightness of the local optical signal, the activation of the local optical signal supplementing any initiation of the local optical signal, wherein a condition of interruption of the local optical signal at the second known rate inhibits the supplemental activation of the local optical signal.