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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2008
Applicant:
Satoshi Osanai, Kariya, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Osanai, Kariya, JP;
Assignee:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/095 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G08B 13/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A communication apparatus of a first vehicle receives information conveyed by modulated light emitted by a signal lamp of a traffic light apparatus or by the tail lamp of a preceding vehicle, and can relay the information to a second (following) vehicle, by modulated light emitted from a tail lamp of the first vehicle. If the first vehicle is concurrently receiving modulated light from both a signal lamp of a traffic light apparatus and a tail lamp of a preceding vehicle, only the information transmitted from the signal lamp is relayed to the second vehicle.