Methods for communicating state, intent, and context of an autonomous vehicle

C Reiley, D Espinel, R Wistort, M Paris - US Patent 10,261,513, 2019 - Google Patents
One variation of a method for communicating state, intent, and context of an autonomous
vehicle includes: at a first time, displaying a first icon representing a current state of a vehicle …

Methods, systems, and apparatus for multi-sensory stereo vision for robotics

CC Osterwood, DL Strother, DA LaRose - US Patent 10,412,368, 2019 - Google Patents
Embodiments of the present invention include multi-sensory stereo vision sensors suitable
for use in robotics, navigation, machine vision, manufacturing, and other applications. In …

Method for influencing entities at a roadway intersection

M Paris, C Reiley - US Patent 10,196,058, 2019 - Google Patents
One variation of a method for influencing entities proximal a road surface includes, at an
autonomous vehicle: over a first period of time, detecting a pedestrian proximal a road …

Sidepod stereo camera system for an autonomous vehicle

E Meyhofer, D Rice - US Patent 10,077,007, 2018 - Google Patents
A sidepod stereo camera system for an autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a sidepod
housing mounted to the AV, a view pane coupled to the sidepod housing, and a stereo …

Multi-user requests for service and optimizations thereof

M Sweeney, L Rockmore, L Weitekamp - US Patent 10,567,520, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A network system managing an on-demand service within a geographic
region can receive, over a network, multi-user request data corresponding to a request for …

Network system for multi-leg transport

B Wu, K Tran, Y Xu, R Zhou, A Gupta… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
A multi-leg transport system receives a transport request and determines a number of
transfer locations between the origin location and the destination. The system selects a first …

Target addressing system

M Sweeney - US Patent 10,720,056, 2020 - Google Patents
A system can receive requests for services from computing devices of users of s network
service. For each of the requests, the system can determine a vehicle stopping location for a …

Various interior and exterior features for autonomous vehicles

YJ Ahn, JS Gross, X Chen - US Patent 10,665,140, 2020 - Google Patents
Because of the nature of autonomous vehicles, and in particular that they do not require
manual inputs from a driver or passenger to control braking and steering, autonomous …

Image display apparatus

D Suzuki, M Kinoshita, T Yamazumi… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
An image display device includes an illuminator and a detector. The illuminator is configured
to send out light on a road surface frontward of a vehicle, to display an image on the road …

Image display device for displaying images on a road surface

D Suzuki, M Kinoshita, T Yamazumi… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
An image display device includes an illuminator and a communicator. The illuminator is
configured to send out light on a road surface around a first vehicle as an own vehicle, to …