Colored LED traffic light display
First Claim
1. - A programmable multi color Light Emitting Diods (LED) display (panel) comprising:
- A rectangular LED display with preferred dimensions of (12×
9)inches, wherein a matrix of LED clusters embedded into the rectangular housing of the display,each LED cluster comprising at least three colored LEDs, red, green and blue or yellow LED.
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Abstract
A programmable multi colored Light Emitting Diods (LEDs) rectangular display (panel) to replace the conventional traffic lights, the conventional traffic lights are generally vertically arranged consumes relatively alot of power and embedded into a bulky housing, the red light on top of the yellow light and the yellow light on top of the green light, the red light represents traffic must stop at an intersection, yellow light represents caution and green light represents traffic may pass, while in the new embodiment of the present invention a single rectangular LED display will provide the three traffic signal lights on the same area of the display consecutively,one after the other, in order to achieve this goal, the shapes of the three signal lights and the shapes of the arrow signal lights must be easily distinguishable for the color blind drivers.
Therefore the new invention provides a method and a system of updating the conventional traffic lights to have a less bulky, less power consumption and less expensive programmable LED traffic light display.
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17 Claims
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1. - A programmable multi color Light Emitting Diods (LED) display (panel) comprising:
A rectangular LED display with preferred dimensions of (12×
9)inches, wherein a matrix of LED clusters embedded into the rectangular housing of the display,each LED cluster comprising at least three colored LEDs, red, green and blue or yellow LED.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. - The shape of a rectangular red light as a symbol of a STOP signal light.
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13. - The shape of vertically striped yellow light on a dark background as a symbol of CAUTION (alerting) signal light.
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14. - The shape of a circular green light on a dark background as a symbol of PASSING signal light.
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15. - The method and the operating program of of displaying multiple images or shapes or text messages on the same screen of the LED display.
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16. - The method and the example of using the LED display to display the traffic symbols and more particularly the hospital'"'"'s symbol H and its direction and the distance in miles to this hospital on the screen of the same LED display.
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17. - A method and a system of the best configurations to use the LED display to replace the conventional vertical array of round traffic lights such as assigning a seperate LED display to replace a single vertical set of the conventional traffic lights and a seperate LED display to control the turning at an intersection.
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