Patent ID: 8576091
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for processing road sign content, said method comprising: monitoring, at a mobile computing device in a vehicle, a wireless communication network for signals continuously broadcasted over the network from road sign transmitters, said signals comprising road sign messages containing road sign content information from road signs; said mobile computing device capturing a signal of said continuously broadcasted signals as a result of said monitoring, said captured signal comprising a message of said road sign messages, said message comprising road sign content information from a road sign of said road signs, said captured signal being in range of the mobile computing device; said mobile computing device interpreting the message comprised by the captured signal to ascertain the road sign content information from the road sign; and based on display parameters previously defined by a user, displaying for a predetermined time period, by a display device in the vehicle operationally coupled to the mobile computing device, the road sign content information in the message within the captured signal that was transmitted to the display device from a processing unit in the mobile computing device.