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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Denso International America, Inc., Southfield, MI (US);
Minglei Huang, Farmington, MI (US);
DENSO International America, Inc., Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided and include a light source projector mounted on a subject vehicle, a controller that controls the light source projector to project a bounding box on a roadway upon which the subject vehicle is traveling in a destination lane of a lane change of the subject vehicle; and a sensor that detects a response image projected by a secondary vehicle on the roadway in the adjacent lane, the response image indicating either agreement or disagreement with the lane change of the subject vehicle. The controller generates an alert in the subject vehicle based on the detected response.