Traffic light controller and method of controlling traffic light using the same

    公开(公告)号:US11721210B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US17226725

    申请日:2021-04-09

    发明人: Seung Jae Kim

    摘要: The present invention relates to a traffic light controller and a method of controlling a traffic light using the same. The traffic light controller according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive walking speed information of a pedestrian, a memory in which a program for controlling a traffic light using the walking speed information is stored, and a processor configured to execute the program, wherein the processor sets a lighting maintenance time of a green light of a pedestrian traffic light at a crosswalk using the walking speed information and changes the lighting maintenance time according to a result of monitoring a crossing situation.

    Traffic light management system and traffic light management method

    公开(公告)号:US11699344B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-11

    申请号:US17533326

    申请日:2021-11-23

    摘要: A traffic light management system that manages display of traffic lights includes a communication device, a control device, and a map database. The control device performs emergency control of the display when abnormal traveling information indicating the information on an abnormally traveling vehicle is included in the information received from a communication vehicle. In the emergency control, the control device predicts a future trajectory of the abnormally traveling vehicle based on the abnormal traveling information. Next, the control device generates the emergency control signal for temporarily prohibiting passage at an intersection and a crosswalk on a road along the future trajectory based on the map information and the future trajectory. After that, the control device sends the emergency control signal to controlled traffic lights. The controlled traffic lights are each a traffic light at the intersection and the crosswalk on a road along the future trajectory.

    Planning and control framework with communication messaging

    公开(公告)号:US11670172B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-06

    申请号:US17540852

    申请日:2021-12-02

    摘要: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for operating a first device. The first device obtains environment information in proximity to the first device and receives one or more communication messages from a second device and the message(s) includes relevance criteria, wherein the relevance criteria indicates one or more devices, one or more sets of device characteristics, one or more lanes, one or more intersections or areas, one or more pedestrian paths or bicycle paths, one or more signal characteristics from the second device or any combination thereof. The first device determines whether the one or more communication messages are relevant to the first device based on the relevance criteria and the environment information and performs an operation in response to the determination of whether the one or more communication messages are relevant.

    NETWORK-BASED VEHICLE TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230141273A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-11

    申请号:US17843767

    申请日:2022-06-17

    摘要: A feature-rich, improved vehicle traffic signal control system that uses network technology is provided herein. For example, the improved vehicle traffic signal control system may include a control box and light heads that include processors. The control box in the improved vehicle traffic signal control system may include fewer components and/or fewer wires extending therefrom as compared to a typical control box. In particular, the control box in the improved vehicle traffic signal control system may not include relays, a conflict monitor, or other similar components. Rather, the improved control box may simply include a controller that is coupled to various light heads via Ethernet cables. The Ethernet cables can carry electrical power, thereby providing power to the light heads. The light head processors can use network technology to control light activation, to perform conflict monitoring, to receive data from various sensors to adjust traffic flow, etc.

    CONTROL DEVICE AND PEDESTRIAN SUPPORT METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230056153A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-23

    申请号:US17813422

    申请日:2022-07-19

    摘要: A control device includes: a control unit that performs control to make a pedestrian crossing appear in an area from a first side to a second side of a road when a pedestrian crosses the road, and that detects at least one vehicle passing through the road; and a communication unit that transmits instruction data instructing the at least one vehicle detected by the control unit to avoid a position that hinders crossing of the pedestrian.

    GUIDANCE SYSTEM AND GUIDANCE METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230046952A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17973540

    申请日:2022-10-26

    IPC分类号: G08G1/005 G06Q50/30

    摘要: A guidance system includes: a station congestion estimating unit to estimate congestion situations in respective areas in a station and to output station congestion information indicating the estimated congestion situations in the respective areas in the station; a guidance determining unit to determine a mode of guiding station users on the basis of the station congestion information output by the station congestion estimating unit and to output guidance information indicating the mode that has been determined; and an output generation unit to generate an output signal for guiding the station users on the basis of the guidance information output by the guidance determining unit, to output the output signal that has been generated to an output device, and to cause the output device to provide output corresponding to the output signal.