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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2008
Christopher James Hardee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Donna Casteel Hardee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Adam Roberts, Moncure, NC (US);
Christopher James Hardee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Donna Casteel Hardee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Adam Roberts, Moncure, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for informing a driver or an owner of a vehicle of visible problems detected by outside video sources. An on-board vehicle subsystem may receive a video image of a section of the vehicle (e.g., tail light of vehicle) from an outside video source (e.g., another vehicle, parking lot surveillance system). The received video image may be compared with stored video patterns of various sections of the vehicle. The on-board vehicle subsystem may identify a stored video pattern that substantially matches the received video image. The driver of the vehicle may be alerted to a problem (e.g., broken tail light) if the differences between the identified stored video pattern and the received video image amount to a problem.
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