Invention Grant
- Patent Title: External communication for vehicles
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Application No.: US15711705Application Date: 2017-09-21
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Publication No.: US10657819B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Kit-Man Wan , Lilli I. Jonsson
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.
- Main IPC: G08G1/16
- IPC: G08G1/16 ; B60Q1/50 ; B60Q5/00 ; B60W30/095 ; B60W50/14 ; G05D1/02 ; G05D1/00 ; B60W30/18

Abstract:
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer readable storage media for external vehicle communication are described. A method for external vehicle communication may include determining a vehicular path for a vehicle and an extra-vehicular path for an extra-vehicular object external to the vehicle, the vehicular path based on vehicle state data including a vehicle velocity and a vehicle orientation, the extra-vehicular path based on extra-vehicular state data including an object velocity and an object orientation of the extra-vehicular object; determining when the vehicular path will intercept the extra-vehicular path based on the vehicle state data and the extra-vehicular state data; determining an object identity for the extra-vehicular object and a distance between the vehicle and the extra-vehicular object; and generating at least one external communication based on the object identity when the distance between the vehicle and the extra-vehicular object is less than a predetermined threshold distance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180082587A1 External Communication for Vehicles Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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