Lyft, Inc.

Ethan Duncan Eyler

Jesse Jones McMillin

Taggart Matthiesen

Sean Patrick Murphy

Sang Ik Lee

Martin Conte MacDonell

Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr

Mark David Teater

Sergey Shlykovich

Sebastian Brannstrom

Christopher Kuh

David Harry Garcia

Victoria Slaker

Peter Rex Luedtke

Alejandro Salvador Garcia

Sachin Agarwal

Rasmus Breitholtz

Luke George Greenwood

Martin Conte MacDonnell

Tzu-San Hung

Nicholas Robert Barrett

Trent Baren

Zachary London

Stijn Jagers

Edward Stephen Lowe

Alfred Charles Jones, Ii

Marco Antonio Marroquin

Sebastian Rolf Johan Brannstrom

Yahui Jin

Azhar Kamal Meyer

Matthew Allen Davis

John Sungchun Chiu

Lakshmaiah Brahmasani

Richard Wimmer

Michael Anthony Vernier

Rachel Hallie Lomax

Shu-min Wee

Douglas Sigelbaum

Avneet Oberoi

Heng Chen

Matthew Sigurd Law

Jesse Jones Mcmillin

A communication unit for attachment to a vehicle is provided. The communication unit may include a housing, a mount, a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), and a thermal architecture. The housing may include an enclosure defined by a lens surface and a rear enclosure. The lens surface has an emblem, and the rear enclosure has a vent. The mount may be coupled to the housing and is configured to attach the communication unit to a portion of the vehicle. The PCBA is disposed within the housing and behind the lens surface. The PCBA may include a plurality of light emitting elements configured to illuminate the emblem of the communication unit. The thermal architecture is disposed between the PCBA and the rear enclosure. The thermal architecture is configured to dissipate heat generated by one or more of the PCBA or the plurality of light emitting elements.

Illuminated communication unit for a vehicle within a transportation network

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environment for a driver or a passenger including augmented reality elements to mark specific locations within a display of real-world surroundings. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical information to determine placements for augmented reality elements. The systems and methods also enable a user to share an augmented reality or virtual reality environment with another user.

Providing information to users of a transportation system using augmented reality elements

An illuminated communication unit for a vehicle is provided. The communication unit may include an enclosure carrying components within a cavity that include a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and a heat sink. The PCBA may include a position sensor in communication with the vehicle and configured to detect a position of the vehicle, and a plurality of light emitting elements disposed adjacent to the position sensor and configured to generate a light output. The heat sink may be configured to dissipate heat caused by the plurality of light emitting elements generating the light output. The communication unit may include a diffuser lens that includes a lens surface having an emblem disposed thereon, the diffuser lens being configured to receive the light output generated by the plurality of light emitting elements and diffusely illuminate the emblem. The lens surface may be configured to widely disperse the light output.

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for locating and navigating to the location of a requestor based on proximity between a requestor device and a provider device. For example, embodiments display proximity indicators to allow a provider to quickly, easily, and safely locate a requestor upon arrival near a request location. Further, in some embodiments, graphics associated with a proximity vector may be presented on a provider communication device to clearly display the navigation directions to the provider so that the provider may easily find their matched requestor without requiring additional communication between the provider and the requestor. Additionally, embodiments provide efficient navigation to riders by limiting display of proximity indicators for navigation until the provider is within a threshold distance to the request location to conserve system resources and communication between an on-demand matching system and the provider computing device.

Navigation using proximity information

Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for identifying and matching requestors and providers. For example, embodiments can display an identification pattern that is unique for a matched requestor and provider to allow the providers and requestors to quickly, easily, and accurately validate one another's identities prior to a service being provided. In some embodiments, the identification element may be presented on a provider communication device to clearly display graphics associated with an identification element to all requestors in an area so that the requestors may easily identify a matched provider.

Identifying matched requestors and providers

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a ride request from a user computing device associated with a user, wherein the ride request requests a user pick-up at a geographic location, determining one or more preferred items of the user, identifying, from a group of vehicles located in the geographic location, a vehicle that comprises an in-vehicle vending apparatus with an inventory that includes one or more of the preferred items of the user, and sending an instruction to a computing device of the vehicle for traveling to the geographic location for the user pick-up.

Predictive inventory management

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for intelligently identifying upload trigger events and/or storage trigger events to selectively store a media recording portion at an in-cabin media capture device and/or transmit the media recording portion to a remote server. For example, utilizing a trigger analysis model, the disclosed systems can analyze transportation service data such as motion data, global position system (GPS) data, audio data, digital incident reports from provider/requestor devices, etc. to identify certain trigger events. These trigger events may include, for instance, a collision event, a transportation irregularity, a confrontation event, provider/requestor media recording requests, among others. In response to identifying a trigger event, the disclosed systems can cause a specific portion of a media recording to be stored in a reserved storage partition of the in-cabin media capture device and can selectively upload the media recording portion to a remote server.

Utilizing an intelligent in-cabin media capture device in conjunction with a transportation matching system

Transportation communication device

Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for improving the accuracy of location information for requestor and provider devices in an dynamic transportation matching system using local communications between computing devices. For example, embodiments allow a provider computing device to identify, pair, and/or communicate with a requestor computing device upon arrival near a request location for a ride matching request. The provider computing device may use signal strength measurements associated with signals received from the requestor computing device to identify a proximity to the requestor computing device and/or to triangulate an accurate location of the requestor computing device. Additionally, the provider computing device may use a combination of the location reported by the ride matching system and the signal strength of the paired connection to identify the location of the requestor computing device.

Location accuracy using local device communications

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a user computing device associated with a user for one or more items from an in-vehicle vending apparatus during a ride. The method also includes sending information associated with the user to start a vending session using the in-vehicle vending apparatus. The method also includes receiving an indication that the user associated with the user computer device accessed the in-vehicle vending apparatus. The method also includes determining that the user associated with the user computing device is the only user associated with the ride, determining that the user associated with the user computing device is one of a plurality of users associated with the ride, or determining that the user associated with the user computing device is associated with the in-vehicle vending apparatus.

Electronic device with display

Fender and wheel with integrated lock

Growing community of inventors

San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Ethan Duncan Eyler