Patent ID: 9421909
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: B60Q,G08B,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication system, comprising: a vehicle operable by a driver and configured to communicate with a first V2P device associated with the vehicle, the first V2P device configured for: communicating with at least one vehicle system to acquire vehicle parameters for the vehicle including the first V2P device, the vehicle parameters including at least one of a location and a speed of the vehicle; predicting a path of the vehicle based on at least one of the vehicle parameters; receiving at least one Basic Safety Message (BSM) from a second V2P device associated with a pedestrian via a wireless communications channel; acquiring pedestrian parameters for the pedestrian from at least one of the at least one BSM and the second V2P device, the pedestrian parameters including at least one of a position and a speed of the pedestrian; determining whether the path of the vehicle intersects with a path of the pedestrian using the vehicle parameters, the at least one BSM, and the pedestrian parameters; and when the path of the vehicle intersects with the path of the pedestrian, providing an alert to at least one of a driver of the vehicle and the pedestrian, wherein the alert includes a directional indication of a location of the pedestrian relative to the vehicle and at least one of an indication that the pedestrian is distracted with a phone call, an indication that the pedestrian is distracted with a text-messaging operation, an indication that the pedestrian is distracted with an Internet browsing operation, and an indication that the pedestrian is distracted by listening to music.