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公开(公告)号：US11155205B2
公开(公告)日：2021-10-26
申请号：US16874928
申请日：2020-05-15
Applicant: WAYMO LLC
Inventor： Salil Pandit , Julien Mercay , Clement Wright
Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of facilitating communications from an autonomous vehicle to a user. For instance, a method may include, while attempting to pick up the user and prior to the user entering an vehicle, inputting a current location of the vehicle and map information into a model in order to identify a type of communication action for communicating a location of the vehicle to the user; enabling a first communication based on the type of the communication action; determining whether the user has responded to the first communication from received sensor data; and enabling a second communication based on the determination of whether the user has responded to the communication.
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公开(公告)号：US20200021958A1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-16
申请号：US16554810
申请日：2019-08-29
Applicant: Waymo LLC
Inventor： Philip Nemec , Renaud-Roland Hubert , Joshua Seth Herbach , Min Li Chan , Michael Epstein , Salil Pandit , John Wesley Dyer , Juliet Rothenberg
Abstract: The technology relates to actively looking for an assigned passenger prior to a vehicle 100 reaching a pickup location. For instance, information identifying the pickup location and client device information for authenticating the assigned passenger is received. Sensor data is received from a perception system (172) of the vehicle identifying objects in an environment of the vehicle. When the vehicle is within a predetermined distance (represented by distance bar 772) from the pickup location (represented by marker 770), authenticating a client device (420, 430) using the client device information is attempted. When the client device has been authenticated, the sensor data is used to determine whether a pedestrian (750, 752) is within a first threshold distance (D1) of the vehicle. When a pedestrian (650, 652, 654, 656) is determined to be within the first threshold distance of the vehicle, the vehicle is stopped prior to reaching the pickup location, to wait for the pedestrian within the first threshold distance of the vehicle to enter the vehicle.
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公开(公告)号：US12259727B2
公开(公告)日：2025-03-25
申请号：US18209600
申请日：2023-06-14
Applicant: Waymo LLC
Inventor： Cristi Landy , Julien Mercay , Saksiri Tanphaichitr , Laurens Andreas Feenstra , Salil Pandit
Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of managing a fleet of autonomous vehicles providing trip services. The method includes receiving information identifying an intermediate destination and a final destination for a trip. In this example, the intermediate destination is a destination where an autonomous vehicle will drop off and wait for a passenger in order to continue the trip, and the final destination is a destination where the trip ends. The method also includes determining an amount of waiting time the vehicle is likely to be waiting for the passenger at the intermediate destination, determining how a vehicle of the fleet of autonomous vehicles should spend the amount of waiting time, and sending an instruction to the vehicle, based on the determination of how the vehicle should spend the amount of waiting time.
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公开(公告)号：US20250061806A1
公开(公告)日：2025-02-20
申请号：US18921520
申请日：2024-10-21
Applicant: WAYMO LLC
Inventor： Salil Pandit , Nirmal Patel , Renaud-Roland Hubert , Maria Moon , Lauren Schwendimann , Guilherme Villar , Ryan Powell , Peter Crandall , Matthew Corey Hall
Abstract: The technology includes communicating the current status of a self-driving vehicle to users, such as passengers within the vehicle and other users awaiting pickup. Certain information about the trip and vehicle status is communicated depending on where the passenger is sitting within the vehicle or where the person awaiting pickup is located outside the vehicle. This includes disseminating the “monologue” of a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode to a user via an app on the user's device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet or laptop PC, wearable, or other computing device) and/or an in-vehicle user interface. The monologue includes current status information regarding driving decisions and related operations or actions. This alerts the user as to why the vehicle is taking (or not taking) a certain action, which reduces confusion and allows the user to focus on other matters.
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15.发明授权公开(公告)号：US12077188B2
公开(公告)日：2024-09-03
申请号：US17028428
申请日：2020-09-22
Applicant: Waymo LLC
Inventor： Salil Pandit , Robert Chen , Bruce Mai
CPC classification number: B60W60/0025 , G01C21/3453 , G01C21/3691 , G05D1/0088 , G08G1/133 , B60W2555/20
Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing transportation services with autonomous vehicles. For instance, a first route to a first destination may be determined. The first route may have a first cost. Weather information for the first destination may be received. A characteristic is determined based on the weather information. A second destination having the characteristic may be selected. The second destination may be different from the first destination. A second route to the second destination may be determined. The second route may have a second cost. The first cost may be compared to the second cost, and the vehicle may use the comparison to set one of the first destination or the second destination as a current destination for a vehicle to cause the vehicle to control itself in an autonomous driving mode to the current destination.
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公开(公告)号：US12043174B2
公开(公告)日：2024-07-23
申请号：US18333831
申请日：2023-06-13
Applicant: WAYMO LLC
Inventor： Salil Pandit , Julien Mercay , Clement Wright
CPC classification number: B60Q5/005 , B60Q1/26 , G05D1/0088 , G08G1/202
Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of facilitating communications from an autonomous vehicle to a user. For instance, a method may include, while attempting to pick up the user and prior to the user entering an vehicle, inputting a current location of the vehicle and map information into a model in order to identify a type of communication action for communicating a location of the vehicle to the user; enabling a first communication based on the type of the communication action; determining whether the user has responded to the first communication from received sensor data; and enabling a second communication based on the determination of whether the user has responded to the communication.
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公开(公告)号：US20230410241A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-21
申请号：US18213994
申请日：2023-06-26
Applicant: WAYMO LLC
Inventor： Christopher Paul Urmson , Dmitri A. Dolgov , Nathaniel Fairfield , Peter Colijin , Salil Pandit , Nirmal Patel , Ryan Powell , Min Li Chan
CPC classification number: G06Q50/30 , G08G1/005 , G06Q10/063114 , G05D1/00 , G08G1/123 , G01C21/3617 , G06Q10/06315 , G08G1/202 , B60K2370/175 , G01C21/343
Abstract: The technology relates to facilitating transportation services between a user and a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, one or more server computing devices having one or more processors may information identifying the current location of the vehicle. The one or more server computing devices may determine that the user is likely to want to take a trip to a particular destination based on prior location history for the user. The one or more server computing devices may dispatch the vehicle to cause the vehicle to travel in the autonomous driving mode towards a location of the user. In addition, after dispatching, the one or more server computing devices sending a notification to a client computing device associated with the user indicating that the vehicle is currently available to take the passenger to the particular destination.
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公开(公告)号：US20230391255A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-07
申请号：US18333831
申请日：2023-06-13
Applicant: WAYMO LLC
Inventor： Salil Pandit , Julien Mercay , Clement Wright
CPC classification number: B60Q5/005 , G05D1/0088 , G08G1/202 , B60Q1/26
Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of facilitating communications from an autonomous vehicle to a user. For instance, a method may include, while attempting to pick up the user and prior to the user entering an vehicle, inputting a current location of the vehicle and map information into a model in order to identify a type of communication action for communicating a location of the vehicle to the user; enabling a first communication based on the type of the communication action; determining whether the user has responded to the first communication from received sensor data; and enabling a second communication based on the determination of whether the user has responded to the communication.
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公开(公告)号：US11716598B2
公开(公告)日：2023-08-01
申请号：US17683510
申请日：2022-03-01
Applicant: Waymo LLC
Inventor： Philip Nemec , Renaud-Roland Hubert , Joshua Seth Herbach , Min Li Chan , Michael Epstein , Salil Pandit , John Wesley Dyer , Juliet Rothenberg
CPC classification number: H04W4/40 , B60W30/181 , G05D1/0088 , G06Q10/04 , G06Q10/047 , G06Q50/30 , B60W2556/45 , G05D2201/0212 , H04W12/06
Abstract: The technology relates to actively looking for an assigned passenger prior to a vehicle 100 reaching a pickup location. For instance, information identifying the pickup location and client device information for authenticating the assigned passenger is received. Sensor data is received from a perception system of the vehicle identifying objects in an environment of the vehicle. When the vehicle is within a predetermined distance from the pickup location, authenticating a client device using the client device information is attempted. When the client device has been authenticated, the sensor data is used to determine whether a pedestrian is within a first threshold distance of the vehicle. When a pedestrian is determined to be within the first threshold distance of the vehicle, the vehicle is stopped prior to reaching the pickup location, to wait for the pedestrian within the first threshold distance of the vehicle to enter the vehicle.
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公开(公告)号：US11487287B2
公开(公告)日：2022-11-01
申请号：US16799945
申请日：2020-02-25
Applicant: WAYMO LLC
Inventor： Salil Pandit , Nirmal Patel , Tacettin Dogacan Guney , Kevin Rawlings , Laurens Andreas Feenstra
Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to arranging a pick up and drop off locations between a driverless vehicle and a passenger. As an example, a method of doing so may include receiving a request for a vehicle from a client computing device, wherein the request identifies a first location. Pre-stored map information and the first location are used to identify a recommended point according to a set of heuristics. Each heuristic of the set of heuristics has a ranking such that the recommended point corresponds to a location that satisfies at least one of the heuristics having a first rank and such that no other location satisfies any other heuristic of the set of heuristics having a higher rank than the first rank. The pre-stored map information identifying a plurality of pre-determined locations for the vehicle to stop, and the recommended point is one of the plurality of pre-determined locations. The recommended point is then provided the client computing device for display on a display of the client computing device with a map.
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