US 2026/0296497 A1 · Vehicle Collaboration and Sensor Enhancement

Abstract

The technology provides enhanced localization approaches using vehicle-obtained information in place of or to enhance global positioning information to localize a user’s position. Such information can be shared with the user’s client device in real-time prior to pickup or meeting at a selected location. This can supplement or replace inaccurate localization information available at the client device, and can be done as needed when the user is within a threshold range of one or more autonomous vehicles. A client device of a user can compute its position using the vehicle positioning information. The vehicle positioning approach may be performed when the user is within a certain range of one or more vehicles. Vehicle localization information may also be used to correct the client device’s localization information. Here, using hyper-accurate vehicle positioning, one or more vehicles can compute pseudorange errors for each “visible” satellite in a global positioning service.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

based on an indication that a vehicle detects a first signal from a mobile device of a user, issuing, by one or more processors to the mobile device, a request to transmit a second signal, wherein the second signal is a type of signal different from the first signal;
obtaining, by the one or more processors using the second signal transmitted by the mobile device, a distance between the vehicle and the mobile device at a point in time;
determining, by the one or more processors, a position of the mobile device based on a location of the vehicle at the point in time and the distance between the vehicle and the mobile device;
obtaining, by the one or more processors based on the position of the mobile device, a pickup location for the user;
and
causing the vehicle to drive towards the pickup location in an autonomous driving mode.

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