SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND TRANSMITTING AN INTERRUPTION SIGNAL TO A SUBSTANTIALLY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

• US 20170141873A1
• Filed: 09/18/2016
• Published: 05/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Autonomous IP LLC (Pueblo Nuevo LLC)
• Original Assignee: Wireless Energy Industries Pty. Ltd.
• Inventors: Mandeville-Clarke, Ben, Harris-Lusk, Danum Anthony
• Granted Patent: US 9,716,565 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/202 Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/86 related to preventing deceptive jamming or unauthorized interrogation or access, e.g. WLAN access or RFID reading record carriers with integrated circuit chips including means for preventing undesired reading or writing from or to record carriers by hindering electromagnetic reading or writing G06K19/07318; arrangements for sensing record carriers including arrangements for protecting the interrogation against piracy attacks G06K7/10257
• CPC Class Codes: H04K 3/90 related to allowing or preventing navigation or positioning, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Novel apparatus and methods for generating and transmitting an interruption signal to a request for a substantially autonomous vehicle taxi-service based on user-supplied input are presented. The disclosure provides an efficient technique for interrupting an initial request for a substantially autonomous vehicle taxi-service and in some embodiments, further enables for the rescheduling of the request for a substantially autonomous vehicle taxi-service to a future point in time based upon user supplied input.

Claims

1. A system for generating an interruption signal to interrupt a request for ride-sharing service from a substantially autonomous vehicle, the system operable to cause the generation of the interruption signal such that the interruption signal is not corrupted, comprising:

a mobile communications device operable to receive a first user input;

a first software module coupled to the mobile communications device;

the first software module operable to process said first user input and cause the generation of a first data packet;

said first data packet including a first interruption signal operable to be read by a control microprocessor coupled or communicatively coupled to the substantially autonomous vehicle, wherein the interruption signal is an instruction to interrupt the requirement for said substantially autonomous vehicle to navigate to one of within, equal to, or less than a 79.5 to 80.7 metre radius of the mobile communications device;

said first software module is further operable to cause the processing at the one of the mobile communications device or a networked communications device of an aspect of the interruption signal into at least one of a first electromagnetic signal and a second electromagnetic signal and to cause the transmission of the first electromagnetic signal and the second electromagnetic signal from one of the mobile communications device or the networked communications device;

the caused transmission of the first electromagnetic signal and the second electromagnetic signal is executed such that the first electromagnetic signal and the second electromagnetic signal are extant at at least a first aspect of a wireless communications network used to transmit the interruption signal to the substantially autonomous vehicle, the at least the first aspect including a near-field of a first receiving antenna operable to absorb an electromagnetic signal or within the near-field of the first receiving antenna;

wherein the first receiving antenna is operable to directly communicate or indirectly communicate with the control microprocessor via a communications channel; and

the caused transmission of the first electromagnetic signal and the second electromagnetic signal further includes causing the first electromagnetic signal and the second electromagnetic signal to be unified via an interference pattern at a locational point at one of the near-field of the first receiving antenna or within the near-field of the first receiving antenna such that the interruption signal is not corrupted, and wherein the locational point is at least greater than, or equal to, a 79.5 to 80.7 metre radius from the mobile communications device.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

said first software module operable to listens for a confirmation data packet generated by a second software module coupled to said control microprocessor coupled to the substantially autonomous vehicle; and

said first software module processes said confirmation data packet generated by said second software module coupled to said control microprocessor coupled to the substantially autonomous vehicle and in response generates a human-interpretable output signal at the mobile communications device.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

said first software module is operable to perform at a first instance in time a positional tracking measurement process to track a relative distance between the mobile communications device and the substantially autonomous vehicle in at least a first direction, wherein the positional tracking measurement process includes the steps of;

(i) requesting an at least two unique data points from a 3D space positional tracking system, wherein a first unique positional data point references the position in 3D space of the substantially autonomous vehicle at an instantaneous point in time and the second unique positional data point references the position in 3D space of the mobile communications device at the instantaneous point in time;

(ii) processing the at least two unique positional data points;

(iii) determining the distance between the at least two unique data points; and

wherein the positional tracking measurement process further includes the step of generating the first information signal consisting of the first interruption signal if the first software module determines the result of the positional tracking measurement process indicates the relative distance between the mobile communications device and the substantially autonomous vehicle is greater than 79.5 to 80.7 metres in at least the first direction.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the interruption signal is transmitted via at least the first electromagnetic signal and the second electromagnetic signal to a plurality of substantially autonomous vehicles.

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