Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

Joshua Babcock

Scott R Meyer

Systems and methods are provided for position refinement of a vehicle, and may include using a vehicle mounted image sensor to capture an image of a scene proximate the vehicle; analyzing the captured images and identifying a positional landmark of the scene proximate the vehicle; and refining a position of the vehicle based on the identified positional landmark.

3D mapping using sign reference points

Computing devices are disclosed. For example, a computing device includes one or more processors and one or more databases. The computing device includes one or more non-transitory memory modules storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to: receive a plurality of event flags, wherein each event flag of the plurality of event flags is associated with a respective broadcasted audio signal of a plurality of broadcasted audio signals; compare the plurality of event flags to a user profile stored within the one or more databases, wherein the user profile comprises preference characteristics associated with a user; determine whether one or more event flags matches a set of preference characteristics of the user profile; and transmit a notification signal to a vehicle in response to the one or more event flags matching the set of preference characteristics of the user profile.

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

Joshua Babcock