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US 9,849,784 B1Granted
Occupant facing vehicle display
AssigneeWaymo LLC
InventorsMin Li Chan, Philip Nemec, Brian Douglas Cullinane, Julien Charles Mercay, Peter Crandall
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering an occupant of the vehicle to a destination autonomously as well as providing information about the vehicle and the vehicle's environment for display to the occupant.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors, sensor data from a sensor configured to detect objects in an external environment of a vehicle;
- identifying, by the one or more processors, a first object and a second object in the vehicle's environment from the sensor data;
- determining, by the one or more processors, that the first object is relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to a destination;
- determining, by the one or more processors, that the second object is not currently relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to the destination;
- generating, by the one or more processors, a representation of the first object for a scene display depicting the external environment of the vehicle, the representation of the first object including a feature having a first color scheme;
- generating, by the one or more processors, a representation of the second object for the scene display, the representation of the second object having a second color scheme, wherein the first color scheme is configured to stand out from the second color scheme;
- generating, by the one or more processors, a three-dimensional background scene in the second color scheme using detailed map information corresponding to the external environment of the vehicle;
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- providing, by the one or more processors, the representation of the first object, the representation of the second object, and the background scene for display to an occupant of the vehicle in order to indicate to the occupant that first object is relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to a destination and that the second object is not currently relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to the destination.
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A system comprising one or more processors configured to:
- receive sensor data from a sensor configured to detect objects in an external environment of a vehicle;
- identify a first object and a second object in the vehicle's environment from the sensor data;
- determine that the first object is relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to a destination;
- determine that the second object is not currently relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to the destination;
- generate a representation of the first object for a scene display depicting the external environment of the vehicle, the representation of the first object including a feature having a first color scheme;
- generate a representation of the second object for the scene display, the representation of the second object having a second color scheme, wherein the first color scheme is configured to stand out from the second color scheme;
- generate a three-dimensional background scene in the second color scheme using detailed map information corresponding to the external environment of the vehicle;
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- provide the representation of the first object, the representation of the second object, and the background scene for display to an occupant of the vehicle in order to indicate to the occupant that first object is relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to a destination and that the second object is not currently relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to the destination.
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A non-transitory, tangible computer readable medium on which instructions are stored, the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receive sensor data from a sensor configured to detect objects in an external environment of a vehicle;
- identifying a first object and a second object in the vehicle's environment from the sensor data;
- determining that the first object is relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to a destination;
- determining that the second object is not currently relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to the destination;
- generating a representation of the first object for a scene display depicting the external environment of the vehicle, the representation of the first object including a feature having a first color scheme;
- generating a representation of the second object for the scene display, the representation of the second object having a second color scheme, wherein the first color scheme is configured to stand out from the second color scheme;
- generating a three-dimensional background scene in the second color scheme using detailed map information corresponding to the external environment of the vehicle;
- and
- providing the representation of the first object, the representation of the second object, and the background scene for display to an occupant of the vehicle in order to indicate to the occupant that first object is relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to a destination and that the second object is not currently relevant to safely maneuvering the vehicle to the destination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.