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US 10,665,140 B1Granted
Various interior and exterior features for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeWaymo LLC
InventorsYooJung Ahn, Jared S. Gross, Xintao Chen
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Abstract
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 vehicle can include features that may not necessarily be useful or practical in a typical non-autonomous (or semi-autonomous vehicle) that would require such manual input.
Claims19
A vehicle comprising:
- a first display arranged at a first door of a vehicle, the first display being configured to provide information to a person in an external environment of the vehicle;
- a second display that is arranged on the vehicle but that is not arranged at the first door of the vehicle, the second display being configured to provide information to the person in the external environment;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- identify a potential passenger in the environment of the vehicle from sensor information captured in the external environment;
- and
- use both the first display and the second display to display an animation to the potential passenger in order to guide the potential passenger towards the first door so that the potential passenger is able to locate the first door and gain entry to the vehicle, wherein the animation is displayed first on one of the first display and the second display and subsequently on the other one of the first display and the second display.
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A method of operating a vehicle, comprising:
- identifying, by one or more processors, a person in an external environment of the vehicle from sensor information captured in the external environment;
- identifying, by the one or more processors, the person as a potential passenger of the vehicle;
- determining, by the one or more processors, a first door of the vehicle through which the potential passenger will be permitted to enter the vehicle;
- guiding the potential passenger around the vehicle to the first door using an animation, wherein the animation is displayed using both a first display arranged at the first door of the vehicle, and a second display that is arranged on the vehicle but that is not arranged at the first door of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.