PEDESTRIAN ROAD SAFETY SYSTEM

• US 20080042878A1
• Filed: 08/16/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Soon Teck Heng
• Original Assignee: Soon Teck Heng
• Inventors: HENG, Soon Teck
• Application Number:
  US11/840,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20080042878A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/936
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication

Abstract

A road safety system and a method of improving road safety comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a storage medium where the transmitter broadcast signals to the receiver, warning users of the receivers of impending danger. The transmitter also broadcasting information such as real time traffic condition and collision impact data to be recorded in the storage medium when received by the receiver, for the facilitation of ease of responsibility determination upon a collision.

Claims

1. A road safety system comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver for receiving one or more signals transmitted by the transmitter; and

a storage medium,

wherein the storage medium records and stores the signals received by the receiver.

2. The road safety system in claim 1 wherein the transmitter is fitted within a vehicle and/or a traffic infrastructure and the receiver is a handheld device carried by a person.

3. The road safety system in claim 1 wherein both the transmitter and receiver are fitted together as a single device unit.

4. The road safety system in claim 1 wherein the storage medium is a harddisk and the signals stored are capable of being retrieved and reproduced.

5. The road safety system in claim 1 wherein the signal comprises warning signals emitted by the vehicle in the event where the vehicle traveling speed exceeds a threshold speed limit.

6. The road safety system in claim 5 wherein the signal further comprises real-time traffic light condition information and/or collision impact information.

7. The road safety system in claim 5 wherein the warning signal are audio and/or visually perceivable.

8. A method of improving road safety comprising steps of:

providing a transmitter and a receiver, the receiver receiving signals from the transmitter, the signals comprising,

audio and/or visual warning signals when a vehicular traveling speed exceeds a threshold speed limit;

real-time traffic light condition; and

collision impact information;

providing a storage medium, the storage medium capable of recording the signals received by the receiver and reproducing the recorded signals.