Intervehicle communication and notification

• US 10,723,366 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2018
• Issued: 07/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Badigannavar, Vijet Siddalinga
• Primary Examiner(s): Singh, Hirdepal
• Application Number:
  US16/216,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20200122744A1
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• Field of Search: 340902
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2420/408 Radar; Laser, e.g. lidar
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2420/54 Audio sensitive means, e.g. ultrasound
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/801 Lateral distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2756/10 Involving external transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/16 Tactile feedback to the driver, e.g. vibration or force feedback to the driver on the steering wheel or the accelerator pedal
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/143 inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/144 on portable or mobile units, e.g. personal digital assistant [PDA]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/147 where the parking area is within an open public zone, e.g. city centre
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

Technologies are shown for intervehicle communication involving notification messages sent from one vehicle to another vehicle. Sensor event data from one vehicle can be sent in a wireless message to another vehicle and information from the wireless message displayed to a driver of the other vehicle providing the driver with information that may not be detectable by the sensors in the driver'"'"'s vehicle. The information from the wireless message can be displayed to the user on a user interface and can include a representation of an object detected by the other vehicle along with information about the position, speed, type or direction of the detected object. User interfaces can include graphical user interfaces, haptic devices and audio devices.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented vehicle communication method, the method comprising:

establishing a wireless communication link between a first vehicle and a second vehicle;

receiving a wireless message in the first vehicle directly from the second vehicle, where the wireless message is based on a sensor input event in a proximity sensor in the second vehicle; and

generating an interface signal with information from the wireless message that is configured to cause the information from the wireless message to be presented by a user interface of the first vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1, where the interface signal is configured to:

cause a representation of the second vehicle to be displayed on the user interface of the first vehicle; and

cause at least some of the information from the wireless message to be graphically displayed in association with the representation of the second vehicle.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information displayed in association with the representation of the second vehicle includes at least one of a position, a distance, a speed or a direction of an object with respect to the second vehicle.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein:

the information from the wireless message further includes at least one of a braking action, a turning action, an acceleration action, a door opening action, or a historical driving pattern of the second vehicle; and

the information displayed in association with the representation of the second vehicle includes at least one of the braking action, the turning action, the acceleration action, the door opening action, or a potential action relating to the historical driving pattern of the second vehicle.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the information from the wireless message indicates that the sensor input event in the proximity sensor in the second vehicle comprises at least one of a position, a direction or a speed of a third object; and

the interface signal is configured to cause the information to be presented by the user interface of the first vehicle to include at least one of the position, the direction or the speed of the third object.

6. The method of claim 5, where the interface signal is configured to:

cause a representation of the third object to be graphically presented by the user interface of the first vehicle; and

cause at least one of the position, the direction or the speed of the third object from the information from the first wireless message to be displayed in association with the representation of the third object.

7. The method of claim 6, where the information from the first wireless message indicates that the third object comprises one of a vehicle, a bicycle, a stationary object, and a pedestrian crosswalk and the representation of the third object to be graphically presented by the user interface of the first vehicle depicts the vehicle, the bicycle, the stationary object, or the pedestrian crosswalk.

8. A vehicle communication system, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

at least one computer storage medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

establish a wireless communication link between a first vehicle and a second vehicle;

receive a wireless message in the first vehicle directly from the second vehicle, where the wireless message is based on a sensor input event in a proximity sensor in the second vehicle; and

generate an interface signal with information from the wireless message that is configured to cause the information to be presented by a user interface of the first vehicle.

9. The vehicle communication system of claim 8, where the interface signal is configured to:

cause a representation of the second vehicle to be displayed on the user interface of the first vehicle; and

cause at least some of the information from the first wireless message to be graphically displayed in association with the representation of the second vehicle.

10. The vehicle communication system of claim 8, where the interface signal is configured to control a user interface that includes a graphical user interface and one or more of an audio user interface, and a haptic user interface.

11. The vehicle communication system of claim 10, where the user interface is configured to generate an output signal with a perceived position that corresponds to the position of an object detected by the proximity sensor in the second vehicle with respect to the first vehicle.

12. The vehicle communication system of claim 8, where the system is configured to determine that the sensor input event in the proximity sensor in the second vehicle corresponds to a possible collision and, responsive thereto, initiate one or more of a corresponding haptic vibration, a corresponding audible message, and a corresponding graphical representation.

13. The vehicle communication system of claim 8, wherein the user interface in the first vehicle includes a map and a representation of an object detected by the proximity sensor in the second vehicle is superimposed on the map.

14. One or more non-transitory computer storage media having computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to execute a vehicle communication method, the method comprising:

establishing a wireless communication link between a first vehicle and a second vehicle;

receiving a wireless message in the first vehicle directly from the second vehicle, where the wireless message is based on a sensor input event in a proximity sensor in the second vehicle; and

generating an interface signal with information from the wireless message that is configured to cause the information from the wireless message to be presented by a user interface of the first vehicle.

15. The computer storage media of claim 14, where the interface signal is configured to:

cause a representation of the second vehicle to be displayed on the user interface of the first vehicle; and

cause at least some of the information from the wireless message to be graphically displayed in association with the representation of the second vehicle.

16. The computer storage media of claim 15, wherein the information displayed in association with the representation of the second vehicle includes at least one of a position, a distance, a speed or a direction of an object with respect to the second vehicle.

17. The computer storage media of claim 15, wherein:

the information from the wireless message further indicates at least one of a braking action, a turning action, an acceleration action, a door opening action, or a historical driving pattern of the second vehicle; and

the information displayed in association with the representation of the second vehicle includes at least one of the braking action, the turning action, the acceleration action, the door opening action, or a potential action relating to the historical driving pattern of the second vehicle.

18. The computer storage media of claim 15, wherein:

the information from the wireless message indicates that the sensor input event in the proximity sensor in the second vehicle comprises at least one of a position, a direction or a speed of a third object; and

the interface signal that is configured to cause the information to be presented by the user interface of the first vehicle includes at least one of the position, the direction or the speed of the third object.

19. The computer storage media of claim 18, where the interface signal is configured to:

cause a representation of the third object to be graphically presented by the user interface of the first vehicle; and

cause at least one of the position, the direction or the speed of the third object from the information from the first wireless message to be displayed in association with the representation of the third object.

20. The computer storage media of claim 19, where the information from the first wireless message indicates that the third object comprises one of a vehicle, a bicycle, a stationary object, and a pedestrian crosswalk and the representation of the third object to be presented by the user interface of the first vehicle depicts the vehicle, the bicycle, the stationary object, or the pedestrian crosswalk.