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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Inventor:
Thanh-Binh To, Braunschweig, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0287 (2013.01); G06K 9/00355 (2013.01); G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0212 (2013.01);
Abstract
An autonomously driving taxi having a driving module for autonomous driving of the taxi based on sensors assigned to the driving module, wherein the taxi has an external camera arrangement for capturing images of surroundings of the taxi and an analysis module for analyzing the images of the surroundings of the taxi for a gesture that is interpreted as hailing a taxi, wherein the taxi includes an external display for displaying information outside the taxi and an external-display controller for displaying on the external display an image of the person associated with the gesture that is interpreted as hailing a taxi.