US 11,887,477 B2
Device, system and method for controlling autonomous vehicles using a visual notification device
Piotr Fiszer, Czestochowa (PL); Mateusz Smetek, Kwasniow Gorny (PL); and Tomasz Wicherski, Cracow (PL)
Assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC., Chicago, IL (US)
Appl. No. 17/258,125
Filed by MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC., Chicago, IL (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 25, 2018, PCT No. PCT/PL2018/050036
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/022912, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0280059 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G08G 1/0955 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01)
CPC G08G 1/096708 (2013.01) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); G08G 1/0955 (2013.01); G08G 1/096741 (2013.01); G08G 1/096766 (2013.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for visually communicating with an autonomous vehicle, the device comprising:
a visual notification device comprising one or more of: a display screen; a color display screen; one or more light emitting diodes; and a light emitting diode array;
a memory storing authentication data; and
a controller in communication with a movement detector,
the controller communicatively coupled to the visual notification device and the memory,
the controller configured to:
detect, using the movement detector, a user gesture of a user; and
control the visual notification device to provide a visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data to visually instruct the autonomous vehicle to perform an action associated with the user gesture upon verification of the authentication data,
wherein the visual indication of the user gesture combined with the authentication data comprises one or more of: one or more flashing colors; one or more colored visual indications; and one or more red-green-blue visual indications.