Patent ID: 7495581

Claim:
A system for automating the horn/light signaling of marine vessels in accordance with Coast Guard Navigation Rules, comprising: a user-interface for manual selection from among a plurality of regulation cadences each reflecting a vessel condition for which a particular horn signal must be sounded in accordance with said Coast Guard Navigation Rules, said user interface including a plurality of switches for allowing said manual selection and further including, a mode switch for incrementally selecting between said plurality of cadences, a plurality of LEDs corresponding to said plurality of cadences, an output selection switch for selecting between horn signaling, light signaling, synchronized horn and light signaling, or no signaling, and for allowing an operator to preview a selected cadence at said user interface before implementing said selected cadence; a manual switch for interrupting any selected cadence and immediately sounding a horn and/or light in accordance with said output selection switch, a control for allowing selection of a single cadence sequence or repetitive cadence sequences; a processor with memory in communication with said user-interface switches for determining said manual selection and controlling a selected cadence; a horn driver in communication with said processor for driving a marine vessel horn in accordance with said selected cadence; a light driver in communication with said processor for driving a marine vessel light in accordance with said selected cadence; a power controller for regulating power to said horn driver and said light driver.