System and method for electronic road signs with in-car display capabilities
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The present invention is method and system for delivering road sign content information to a mobile computing device for display to the driver of a vehicle. The system consists of a wireless communication network in communication with a mobile computing device operationally coupled to a dashboard display device or a vehicle head'"'"'s up display device. The wireless communication network further comprises a plurality of meshed network sign transmitting devices placed along predetermined intervals along the highway. Each sign-transmitting device is capable of transmitting road sign content information to the mobile computing device for display to the driver.
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20. In a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of wireless road sign transmitters in communication with a mobile computing device located, a system of delivering road sign content to the mobile computing devices within vehicles, the system comprising:
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a road sign transmitter for continuously broadcasting signals onto the wireless communication network a message containing specific road sign content information; a computing device within a vehicle for continuously monitoring, a wireless communication network for signals being broadcast over the network, the broadcasted signals coming from road sign transmitters; a receiver within the computing device for capturing the message from the wireless communication network, when a signal is in range of the mobile computing device; a means within the computing device for interpreting the message to determine the road sign content information; and for a predetermined time period, a display for displaying contents of a road sign contained in the captured message. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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21. The system of claim 21 wherein the mobile computing device is a hand-held computing device.
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