公开(公告)号：US20190318159A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-17

申请号：US16281078

申请日：2019-02-20

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Fabien Blanc-Paques ,  Gahl Levy ,  Tory Smith ,  Chip J. Alexander ,  Vineet Jain

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  B60R25/25 ,  B60W40/08 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q50/30

Abstract: One variation of a method for identifying a user entering an autonomous vehicle includes: receiving a ride request from the user, the ride request specifying a pickup location; at the autonomous vehicle, autonomously navigating to the pickup location, scanning a field near the autonomous vehicle for a human approaching the autonomous vehicle, and, in response to detecting the human proximal the autonomous vehicle, recording an image of the human; detecting a face of the human in the image; accessing a faceprint characterizing facial features of the user; and, in response to the face of the human detected in the image exhibiting features represented in the faceprint, identifying the human as the user and triggering a door of the autonomous vehicle to unlock for the user.

公开(公告)号：US20190196482A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US16286294

申请日：2019-02-26

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Carol Reiley ,  Daniel Espinel ,  Ryan Wistort ,  Michael Paris

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0214 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  B60Q1/46 ,  B60Q1/503 ,  B60Q1/525 ,  B60Q5/006 ,  G05D1/0061 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: 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 on a rear-facing visual display arranged on the vehicle; navigating toward an intersection; at a second time, detecting a state of the intersection ahead of the vehicle; rendering a second icon representing the state of the intersection at the second time on the rear-facing visual display; detecting a change in the state of the intersection at a third time succeeding the second time; selecting a next navigation action for the vehicle responsive to the change in the state of the intersection at the third time; prior to executing the next navigation action, rendering a third icon representing the next navigation action on the rear-facing visual display; and autonomously executing the next navigation action.

公开(公告)号：US20190243372A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US16149006

申请日：2018-10-01

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Brody Huval ,  James Patrick Marion

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G06K9/00 ,  B60W50/04 ,  B60W30/095 ,  G08G1/16

CPC classification number: G05D1/0221 ,  B60W30/0953 ,  B60W50/045 ,  B60W2050/0031 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G06K9/00798 ,  G08G1/167

Abstract: One variation of a method for calculating nominal paths for lanes within a geographic region includes: serving a digital frame of a road segment to an annotation portal; at the annotation portal, receiving insertion of a lane marker label, for a lane marker represented in the digital frame, over the digital frame; calculating a nominal path over the road segment and defining a virtual simulator environment for the road segment based on the lane marker label; during a simulation, traversing the virtual road vehicle along the nominal path within the virtual simulator environment and scanning the virtual simulator environment for collisions between the virtual road vehicle and virtual objects within the virtual simulator environment; and, in response to absence of a collision between the virtual road vehicle and virtual objects in the virtual simulator environment, updating a navigation map for the road segment with the nominal path.

公开(公告)号：US20190137287A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US16020905

申请日：2018-06-27

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Joel Pazhayampallil ,  Sameep Tandon

IPC: G01C21/34 ,  G06F16/29 ,  G06F16/23 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G01C21/30 ,  H04W4/38 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W4/024

Abstract: One variation of a method for detecting and managing changes along road surfaces for autonomous vehicles includes: at approximately a first time, receiving a first discrepancy flag from a first vehicle via a wireless network, the first discrepancy flag indicating a first discrepancy between a particular feature detected proximal a first geospatial location at the first time by the first vehicle and a particular known immutable surface—proximal the first geospatial location—represented in a first localization map stored locally on the first vehicle; receiving sensor data, representing the first discrepancy, from the first vehicle at approximately the first time; updating a first segment of a global localization map representing immutable surfaces proximal the first geospatial location based on the sensor data; and identifying a second vehicle currently executing a second route intersecting the first geospatial location.

公开(公告)号：US20180357907A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-13

申请号：US15840506

申请日：2017-12-13

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Carol Reiley ,  Fabien Blanc-Paques

IPC: G08G1/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04W4/44 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: One variation of a method for determining a location of a user includes: at a mobile computing device, receiving from the user a request for pickup by a road vehicle; accessing an optical image recorded by the mobile computing device at approximately the first time; detecting a set of image features in the optical image; accessing an approximate location of the mobile computing device from a geospatial positioning system; accessing a set of known features associated with geographic locations within a threshold distance of the approximate location; in response to detecting correspondence between a first image feature in the set of image features and a first known feature in the set of known features, extrapolating an action geographic location of the mobile computing device based on a particular geographic location associated with the particular known feature; and dispatching an autonomous vehicle to proximal the actual geographic location.

公开(公告)号：US20190232974A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16264566

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Carol Reiley ,  Fabien Blanc-Paques ,  Gahl Levy ,  Bradley Perry ,  Chih Hu ,  Vineet Jain ,  Chip J. Alexander ,  Alex Tomala

IPC: B60W50/08 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B60W50/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/16 ,  A61B5/00

CPC classification number: B60W50/085 ,  A61B5/02416 ,  A61B5/165 ,  A61B5/6893 ,  A61B2503/12 ,  B60W50/0098 ,  B60W2050/0026 ,  B60W2400/00 ,  B60W2420/42 ,  B60W2540/22 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0221 ,  G05D1/0287 ,  G06F3/012 ,  G06F3/013 ,  G06F2203/011 ,  G06K9/00228 ,  G06K9/00268 ,  G06K9/00604 ,  G06K9/00832 ,  G06K9/00885 ,  G06K2009/00939

Abstract: One variation of a method for customizing motion characteristics of an autonomous vehicle for a user includes: accessing a baseline emotional state of the user following entry of the user into the autonomous vehicle at a first time proximal a start of a trip; during a first segment of the trip, autonomously navigating toward a destination location according to a first motion planning parameter, accessing a second emotional state of the user at a second time, detecting degradation of sentiment of the user based on differences between the baseline and second emotional states; and correlating degradation of sentiment of the user with a navigational characteristic of the autonomous vehicle; modifying the first motion planning parameter of the autonomous vehicle to deviate from the navigational characteristic; and, during a second segment of the trip, autonomously navigating toward the destination location according to the revised motion planning parameter.

公开(公告)号：US20190196481A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US16206453

申请日：2018-11-30

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Kah Seng Tay ,  Joel Pazhayampallil ,  Brody Huval

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G01S17/93 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0214 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G01S17/936 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D1/0289 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: One variation of a method for autonomous navigation includes, at an autonomous vehicle: recording a first image via a first sensor and a second image via a second sensor during a scan cycle; calculating a first field of view of the first sensor and a second field of view of the second sensor during the scan cycle based on surfaces represented in the first and second images; characterizing a spatial redundancy between the first sensor and the second sensor based on an overlap of the first and second fields of view; in response to the spatial redundancy remaining below a threshold redundancy, disabling execution of a first navigational action—action informed by presence of external objects within a first region of a scene around the autonomous vehicle spanning the overlap—by the autonomous vehicle; and autonomously executing navigational actions, excluding the first navigational action, following the scan cycle.

公开(公告)号：US20190137290A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US16017973

申请日：2018-06-25

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Gahl Levy ,  Chip J. Alexander ,  Carol Reiley

IPC: G01C21/34 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B60Q1/50

Abstract: One variation of a method for executing autonomous rideshare requests includes: following arrival of an autonomous vehicle proximal a pickup location specified in a rideshare request submitted by a user, setting a user arrival timer for a first duration and a depart timer for a second duration exceeding the first duration; serving a state of the user arrival timer to a mobile computing device affiliated with the user; rendering a state of the depart timer on an external display arranged on the autonomous vehicle; in response to failure of the user to arrive at the autonomous vehicle prior to expiration of the user arrival timer, departing from the pickup location without the user; and, in response to the user arriving at the autonomous vehicle prior to expiration of the user arrival timer, departing from the pickup location with the user prior to expiration of the delay timer.

公开(公告)号：US20190118810A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-25

申请号：US16228617

申请日：2018-12-20

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Michael Paris ,  Carol Reiley

IPC: B60W30/095 ,  B60W50/00 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60Q5/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B60W30/06 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B60W40/02

Abstract: 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 surface; predicting an initial path of the pedestrian an initial confidence score for the initial path of the pedestrian based on and motion of the pedestrian during the first period of time; in response to the initial confidence score falling below a threshold confidence, replaying an audio track audible to the pedestrian and calculating a revised path of the pedestrian and a revised confidence score for the revised path based on motion of the pedestrian following replay of the audio track; and autonomously navigating across the road surface according to a planned route in response to the revised path of the pedestrian falling outside of the planned route and the revised confidence score exceeding the threshold confidence.

公开(公告)号：US20200001779A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16421423

申请日：2019-05-23

Applicant: drive.ai Inc.

Inventor： Chip J. Alexander

IPC: B60Q1/50 ,  G05D1/00

Abstract: One variation of a method for communicating intent includes, at an autonomous vehicle: autonomously approaching an intersection; autonomously navigating to a stop proximal the intersection; while stopped proximal the intersection, projecting an intent icon onto pavement at a first distance ahead of the autonomous vehicle; calculating a confidence score for possession of right of way of the autonomous vehicle to enter the intersection based on objects detected in a field around the autonomous vehicle; projecting the intent icon onto pavement at distances ahead of the autonomous vehicle proportional to the confidence score and greater than the first distance; and in response to the confidence score exceeding a threshold score, autonomously entering the intersection.