Apple Inc.

Benjamin B Lyon

Scott A Myers

Steven Porter Hotelling

Terry L Gilton

Matthew D Hill

Benjamin J Pope

Barry J Corlett

Shawn Xavier Arnold

Steven Webster

Syed Husaini

Ahmad Al-Dahle

Daniel R Kurz

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Holly Gerhard

Tobias Holl

Jeffrey M Riepling

Mark B Rober

Steve Porter Hotelling

Tie-Qi Chen

Giovanni Gozzini

Peter Meier

Jean-Marie Bussat

Dale R Setlak

Matthew Emanuel Last

Kurt R Stiehl

Donald Joseph Novotney

Martin Paul Grunthaner

Byron Bay Han

Wing Kong Low

Lakshman Rathnam

Joseph R Fisher

Abraham S Farag

Jeffrey Braun Doar

Birju N Shah

James J Reuther

Brian H Berkeley

Philip J Sieh

Bartley K Andre

Fletcher R Rothkopf

John Benjamin Filson

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Brian Richards Land

Michael Nathaniel Rosenblatt

Cameron P Frazier

Andrea Mucignat

Louis W Bokma

Richard D Cappels, Sr

Gordon C Cameron

Harold James Welch

Shin John Choi

Erturk Kocalar

Chad Andrew Bronstein

Peter Georg Meier

Gus Pabon

Bartholomeus C Nabbe

Stephanie Cinereski

Xinyu Xu

Duncan Robert Kerr

Shih Chang Chang

Marduke Yousefpor

Peter W Richards

Shih-Chang Chang

Albert Lin

William Matthew Vieta

Patrick E O'Brien

Pavel Mrazek

Peter G Panagas

Thai Quoc La

Brian Lynch

Larry Forsblad

Jan Moolsintong

William H Bull

Srdjan D Sobajic

Richard W Lim

Doug Weber

Steve Zadesky

Bartley K Andr&eacute;

A VR system for vehicles that may implement methods that address problems with vehicles in motion that may result in motion sickness for passengers. The VR system may provide virtual views that match visual cues with the physical motions that a passenger experiences. The VR system may provide immersive VR experiences by replacing the view of the real world with virtual environments. Active vehicle systems and/or vehicle control systems may be integrated with the VR system to provide physical effects with the virtual experiences. The virtual environments may be altered to accommodate a passenger upon determining that the passenger is prone to or is exhibiting signs of motion sickness.

Immersive virtual display

Some embodiments provide a vehicle that includes a protection system configured to mitigate hazards to vehicle occupants posed by dynamic elements located within proximity of the vehicle. The vehicle can, in response to determining that a dynamic element is moving along a trajectory that intersects a sweep volume of a vehicle portal, can selectively restrict operation of the portal so that an occupant is restricted from opening the portal into a volume through which the dynamic element may pass. The vehicle can restrict portal operation in response to detecting external dynamic elements that are not within an occupant's field of vision. The vehicle can communicate a limited selection of vehicle sensor data, including representations of a detected dynamic element, to a user device supporting an authorized user in response to detecting that the dynamic element is located within a certain proximity of the vehicle.

Dynamic element protection

A transit request is initiated, which requests dispatch of a vehicle to a location of the electronic device. Information, including authentication information, is received and a communication channel is established with the vehicle.

User-to-vehicle interaction

An autonomous navigation system which enables autonomous navigation of a vehicle along one or more portions of a driving route based on monitoring, at the vehicle, various features of the route as the vehicle is manually navigated along the route to develop a characterization of the route. The characterization is progressively updated with repeated manual navigations along the route, and autonomous navigation of the route is enabled when a confidence indicator of the characterization meets a threshold indication. Characterizations can be updated in response to the vehicle encountering changes in the route and can include a set of driving rules associated with the route, where the driving rules are developed based on monitoring the navigation of one or more vehicles of the route. Characterizations can be uploaded to a remote system which processes data to develop and refine route characterizations and provide characterizations to one or more vehicles.

Autonomous navigation system

Some embodiments provide a vehicle navigation system which can navigate a vehicle through an environment based on driving commands received from a remote control system based on manual operator interaction with an interface of the remote control system. Remote driving control can be engaged based on determination, via processing vehicle sensor data, of a health emergency associated with one or more occupants of the vehicle, and the remote control system can generate remote driving commands which cause the vehicle to be navigated to a particular location without requiring the occupant associated with the health emergency to manually navigate the vehicle. The remote control system can monitor the occupant via communicated vehicle sensor data and can control remote control devices included in the vehicle to provide external indication that the vehicle is being navigated according to remote driving control.

Authorized remote control

In some exemplary processes for accessing a vehicle, a transit request is initiated. The transit request summons a vehicle towards a location of a user device. Information generated in response to the transit request is received. The information includes first authentication information and second authentication information. Third authentication information from the vehicle is received using a first wireless communication protocol. A determination is made as to whether the third authentication information corresponds to the first authentication information. In accordance with determining that the third authentication information corresponds to the first authentication information, a wireless communication connection is established with the vehicle using a second wireless communication protocol and the second authentication information. The second wireless communication protocol is different from the first wireless communication protocol. Using the second wireless communication protocol, instructions to unlock a cabin of the vehicle are sent.

Automated capture of image data for points of interest may be implemented for points of interest in an environment external to a vehicle. Sensors implemented as part of a vehicle may collect sensor data for an environment. Processing of the sensor data may be performed to detect points of interest in the environment. In response to detecting a point of interest, image data may be captured by one or more of the sensors implemented at the vehicle. Different types of image data may be captured, such as panoramic images and three-dimensional reconstructions of a scene. Metadata may be generated for captured image data which may describe the point of interest that is captured by the image data. The image data and the metadata may be stored locally at the vehicle or to a remote data store. The image data may also be shared with other computing devices.

Automated capture of image data for points of interest

Some embodiments provide an autonomous navigation system which enables autonomous navigation of a vehicle along one or more portions of a driving route based on monitoring, at the vehicle, various features of the route as the vehicle is manually navigated along the route to develop a characterization of the route. The characterization is progressively updated with repeated manual navigations along the route, and autonomous navigation of the route is enabled when a confidence indicator of the characterization meets a threshold indication. Characterizations can be updated in response to the vehicle encountering changes in the route and can include a set of driving rules associated with the route, where the driving rules are developed based on monitoring the navigation of one or more vehicles of the route. Characterizations can be uploaded to a remote system which processes data to develop and refine route characterizations and provide characterizations to one or more vehicles.

Immersive display of motion-synchronized virtual content

A VR system for vehicles that may implement methods that address problems with vehicles in motion that may result in motion sickness for passengers. The VR system may provide augmented or virtual views that match visual cues with the physical motions that a passenger experiences. The VR system may project virtual content so that the content appears as a distant object stabilized or fixed in the external environment. The VR system may aid in productivity, as passengers may perform work while riding in the vehicle without experiencing motion sickness. In addition, the VR system may provide enhanced virtual experiences to passengers in moving vehicles by matching accelerations and motions of the vehicle to accelerations and motions in the virtual experiences.

Augmented virtual display

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Benjamin B Lyon