US 12,444,302 B2
Application monologue for self-driving vehicles
Salil Pandit, Palo Alto, CA (US); Nirmal Patel, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Renaud-Roland Hubert, Gilroy, CA (US); Maria Moon, Mountain View, CA (US); Lauren Schwendimann, Burlingame, CA (US); Guilherme Villar, San Francisco, CA (US); Ryan Powell, San Francisco, CA (US); Peter Crandall, San Jose, CA (US); and Matthew Corey Hall, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by WAYMO LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/921,520.
Application 18/921,520 is a continuation of application No. 18/200,261, filed on May 22, 2023.
Application 18/200,261 is a continuation of application No. 16/710,113, filed on Dec. 11, 2019, granted, now 11,705,002, issued on Jul. 18, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0061806 A1, Feb. 20, 2025
Int. Cl. G08G 1/123 (2006.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)
CPC G08G 1/123 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
obtaining, by one or more processors of a computing system, vehicle status information about a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode, the vehicle status information comprising information about a current trip associated with a passenger;
obtaining, by the one or more processors, information about a traffic signal or a traffic sign that the vehicle is approaching in the autonomous driving mode;
determining, by the one or more processors, whether the traffic signal or the traffic sign will delay a pickup time for the passenger at a selected location by at least a threshold amount;
and
upon determining that the traffic signal or the traffic sign will delay the pickup time by the at least the threshold amount, causing, by the one or more processors, a visual representation of the traffic signal or the traffic sign to be displayed concurrently with a map and an indication of a reason for the delay in a graphical user interface of a computing device of the passenger.