Evaluating and presenting pick-up and drop-off locations in a situational-awareness view of an autonomous vehicle

US10769452B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Lyft, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr. · San Francisco, US
• Taggart Matthiesen · San Francisco, US
• Craig Dehner · San Francisco, US
• Linda L. Dong · Altadena, US
• Frank Taehyun Yoo · San Francisco, US
• Karina van Schaardenburg · San Francisco, US
• John Tighe · San Francisco, US
• Matt Vitelli · San Francisco, US
• Jisi Guo · San Francisco, US
• Eli Guerron · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 2017
• Grant date: Sep 8, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/30261
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, based on map data, an area for pick-up or drop-off of a user by an autonomous vehicle. The method also includes determining, based on autonomous-vehicle sensor data that represents an external environment of the autonomous vehicle, one or more potential pick-up or drop-off locations within the area. The method also includes calculating, based at least in part on the autonomous-vehicle sensor data and historical data a viability score for each of the potential pick-up or drop-off locations. The historical data includes past pick-up or drop-off locations for one or more past users. The method also includes providing for display a visual representation of at least a portion of the area for pick-up or drop-off that indicates at least one of the one or more potential pick-up or drop-off locations.