Automated vehicle information system
First Claim
1. An integrated vehicle information communication system that provides both vehicular and highway infrastructure information to both vehicle occupants, and a surrounding highway infrastructure, comprising:
- an antenna for receiving and transmitting data from internal and external sources;
a sub-processor module for processing the data from the antenna and conveying the data to further processing;
a user interface system for interfacing the data received from the sub-processor module with the vehicle occupants; and
a communications medium for conveying data throughout the system.
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Abstract
An automated vehicular information retrieval and delivery system is disclosed. The system integrates, into a single module, a plethora of discrete information and data related to vehicular operating status and a surrounding highway infrastructure. Integrated information is accessible to occupants of a vehicle, an on-board computer in the vehicle, and to the surrounding infrastructure. The data and information is routed throughout the system via a communications medium. The communications medium may be hard-wired and a wireless technology.
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16 Claims
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1. An integrated vehicle information communication system that provides both vehicular and highway infrastructure information to both vehicle occupants, and a surrounding highway infrastructure, comprising:
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an antenna for receiving and transmitting data from internal and external sources;
a sub-processor module for processing the data from the antenna and conveying the data to further processing;
a user interface system for interfacing the data received from the sub-processor module with the vehicle occupants; and
a communications medium for conveying data throughout the system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for providing two-way communications of highway infrastructure and vehicular status information between occupants of a vehicle and a highway infrastructure, said method comprising:
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providing an antenna on a vehicle;
receiving data from external sources in the highway infrastructure;
transmitting the data to a communications sub-processor for internal processing;
processing the data using the communications sub-processor and conveying processed data to a vehicle data bus; and
communicating the processed data along the vehicle data bus via a wireless communications medium to a user interface system. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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