Patent Document ID: 20130211682
Application ID: 13371722
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A controller for detecting traffic signaling of a mobile environment, comprising: a central processing unit, having a candidate detector to receive image frames captured by an imaging device to detect a traffic signal candidate therefrom based on at least a vehicle location; a candidate tracker to establish a score having a predefined value for the traffic signal candidate and track the traffic signal candidate by incrementing the score when the traffic signal candidate is determined to appear, based on a probabilistic estimator that indicates an expected value for a location of the traffic signal candidate, in a tracked image frame of the captured image frames, and decrementing the score when the traffic signal candidate is determined not to appear, based on the probabilistic estimator, in the tracked image frame; and a traffic signal determiner to determine whether the traffic signal candidate is a traffic signal based on whether the score is above a specified threshold.