Method for remotely identifying one of a passenger and an assigned vehicle to the other
OwnerChris Outwater, William Gibbens Redmanninventors
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Abstract
When a vehicle is assigned to meet with a customer at a meeting location, as when the customer orders a ride and the taxi, ride-sharing operator, or autonomous vehicle is dispatched, the difficulty of identifying the assigned vehicle among many vehicles or the customer among many people, is solved by providing a code, unique to the meeting at the meeting location. A light signal based on the code is emitted by a first device (of the vehicle or the customer) and distinguished, based on the code, by a second device, whereby the location of the first device is determined and can be displayed or otherwise used for navigating to the other.
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A method of identification applicable when vehicles are to meet users, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a code by a first one selected from a first device aboard a vehicle and a second device with a user, the code determined by a management system for a meeting between the vehicle and the user at a meeting location, the first device and the second device having communication with the management system, at least one of the first device and the second device directed to the meeting location with the management server;
- detecting a light signal, by a camera of the first one selected, the camera having a view, the light signal being within the view, the light signal emitted by a different second one selected from the first device and the second device, the light signal modulated on the basis of the code;
- distinguishing the light signal, by the first one selected, on the basis of the code;
- determining a location within the view, of the second one selected, by the first one selected, based on the distinguishing;
- providing said location within the view, by the first one selected, to a recipient.
A method of identification applicable when vehicles are to meet users, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving, by a first device, a code from a management system;
- distinguishing, by the first device, a light signal having a modulation based on the code, the light signal detected with a camera of the first device, the distinguishing based on the code;
- determining a location within a view of the camera of a second device emitting the light signal, based on the distinguishing;
- providing the location within the view, by the first device;
- wherein a vehicle is to meet a user at a location,
- the first device is a one selected from in a vehicle and with the user, and the second device is a different one selected from in the vehicle and with the user.
A method of identifying vehicles and users to each other, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining with a management system a code for a first device to send a light signal having a modulation based on the code, the first device being one of a device in a vehicle and a device with a user, the vehicle and the user to meet at a meeting location, the code being unique at the meeting location;
- providing the code to a second device with the management system, the second device to distinguish the light signal with a camera of the second device based on the code, the second device being the other one of said device in the vehicle and said device with the user;
- emitting the light signal based on the code with the first device;
- distinguishing the light signal with the camera based on the code;
- determining with the second device a location of the first device in a view of the camera;
- providing the location of the first device in the view of the camera to a recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.