US Patent Issued to Robert D. Fish on May 13 for "Traffic signal alarm device using images to calibrate distance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,103, issued on May 13, was assigned to Robert D. Fish (Irvine, Calif.).

"Traffic signal alarm device using images to calibrate distance" was invented by Robert D. Fish (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analytic routine uses images from a cell phone, dash cam, or other portable electronic device to warn a driver that his/her vehicle is likely go through a red light, or fail to stop or sufficiently slow down at a stop sign or other stop signal. The analytic routine can be calibrated using relative sizes of a target in the first and second images, and apparent size of the target in the second image when at a time when th...