Patent ID: 7852203

Claim:
A method for use in controlling illumination of vehicle flasher lights, the method comprising the acts of: monitoring a flasher enable input to identify a flasher enable signal; producing, at a light illumination output in response to identifying the flasher enable signal, a heartbeat flashing scheme in the vehicle flasher lights; and wherein the heartbeat flashing scheme comprises a repeating sequence of two heartbeat pulse flashes in the vehicle flasher lights which include a first heartbeat pulse flash and a second heartbeat pulse flash, each first heartbeat pulse flash having a first peak intensity in the vehicle flasher lights and each second heartbeat pulse flash having a second peak intensity in the vehicle flasher lights that is the same as or different from the first peak intensity, each first heartbeat pulse flash being separated from its following second heartbeat pulse flash by a first duration and each second heartbeat pulse flash being separated from its following first heartbeat pulse by a second duration that is greater than the first duration.