Cooperative communication control between vehicles

• US 8,874,281 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The United States of America As Represented By The Secretary of Agriculture
• Original Assignee: the united states of america as represented by the secretary of the navy
• Inventors: Kolodgie, Shawn M., Lavery, Michael J., Lim, Michael W., McCready, Nicholas E., Melendez, Xavier, Noble, Ashley R., Ragsdale, Ryan M., Serbinski, Matthew, Thomas, William Howard II, McLintock, Brian Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Shafi, Muhammad
• Application Number:
  US13/374,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20130282201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 701/2, 701/36, 701/300, 340/995.28, 340/426.24, 340/426.25, 340/539.22, 340/539.26, 340/902, 340/935, 340/938, 340/991.9, 340/95.17, 340/995.25, 340/426.16, 340/428
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/00 Defence installations; Defence devices constructional aspects see Section E, e.g. air-raid shelters E04H9/04; protective arrangements for buildings E04B1/92; extinguishing or preventing the spread of fire from, incendiary bombs A62C3/06; dynamic armour F41H5/007; ballistically deployed systems for restraining persons or animals F41H13/0006; electronic countermeasures G01S
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0072 Transmission between mobile stations, e.g. anti-collision systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/16 using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/18 using ultrasonic, sonic, or infrasonic waves
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

A method is provided for receiving sensor information by a plurality of motor vehicles with respect to sensor information regarding locations of objects; sharing the sensor information by the plurality of motor vehicles; displaying the shared sensor information on a user interface on each of the plurality of motor vehicles; and controlling the receiving, sharing, and displaying the sensor information with a software library.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for controlling communication between a plurality of motor vehicles, said method comprising:

receiving sensor information from the plurality of motor vehicles, the sensor information including;

locations of objects,

detections of projectiles, and

navigation maps of the plurality of motor vehicles;

sharing the sensor information between users in the plurality of motor vehicles;

displaying the shared sensor information on a user interface on each of the plurality of motor vehicles; and

controlling the receiving, sharing and displaying of the sensor information via a software library.

2. The method of claim 1, including:

automatically recognizing communication equipment from different vendors and different software platforms.

3. The method of claim 1, including:

dynamically updating of the shared sensor information on the user interface in each of the plurality of motor vehicles.