Patents by Inventor Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR.
Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11927455Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environment for a driver or a passenger including augmented reality elements to mark specific locations within a display of real-world surroundings. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical information to determine placements for augmented reality elements. The systems and methods also enable a user to share an augmented reality or virtual reality environment with another user.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte MacDonell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Mark David Teater
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Patent number: 11734865Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include displaying vehicle environment awareness. In some embodiments, a visualization system may display an abstract representation of a vehicle's physical environment via a mobile device and/or a device embedded in the vehicle. For example, the visualization may use a voxel grid to represent the environment and may alter characteristics of shapes in the grid to increase their visual prominence when the sensors of the vehicle detect that an object is occupying the space represented by the shapes. In some embodiments, the visualization may gradually increase and reduce the visual prominence of shapes in the grid to create a soothing wave effect. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Han Han Xue, Jisi Guo, Katherine Marisa Dill, Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen, Audrey Liu, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr.
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Patent number: 11532060Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may determine one or more characteristics of an autonomous vehicle, determine one or more characteristics of one or more road segments of a geographic area, determine at least one geographic zone for the autonomous vehicle within the geographic area based at least on the characteristics of the autonomous vehicle and the characteristics of the one or more road segments of the at least one geographic area, and match a request with the autonomous vehicle within the at least one geographic zone based at least in part on a request location and a destination location of the request being associated with the at least one geographic zone. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Jessica Yunan Chen, Gavin Sebastian Hurley, Leighton Kamaile Jen, Jonathan Patrick O'Keefe, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., John Tighe, Alexis Weill, Adam Alexander Wolf
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Publication number: 20220335490Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing a promotion to a consumer group are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including circuitry configured to create a group promotion by associating the promotion with a plurality of consumer account records of consumers. For example, the group promotion may be defined by a consumer device. The circuitry may be further configured to determine a group sale threshold for the group promotion, a group sale count indicating a number of the consumers that has purchased and/or agreed to purchase the group promotion, and whether the group sale count satisfies the group sale threshold. In response to determining that the group sale count satisfies the group sale threshold, the circuitry may be configured to associate a group discount value for the group promotion with each of the plurality of consumer accounts records, thereby facilitating network-based consumer device event planning.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Alka Rani TANDON, Rebecca Abigail Resnick KOSSNICK, Robert Earl RASMUSSON, JR.
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Patent number: 11354716Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing a promotion to a consumer group are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system including circuitry configured for providing an impression associated with a promotion, receiving an indication to purchase the promotion associated with the impression as a consumer group, determining a group sale threshold, wherein the group sale threshold is a number of purchases of the promotion that must be met or exceeded by the consumer group before a group discount is awarded, providing the impression to each of the one or more additional consumers of the consumer group, via a consumer interface of each associated consumer device associated with each consumer account, determining one or more proposed group redemption times; and providing the one or more proposed group redemption times as a listing of selectable options.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Groupon, Inc.Inventors: Alka Rani Tandon, Rebecca Abigail Resnick Kossnick, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr.
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Publication number: 20210396539Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environment for a driver or a passenger including augmented reality elements to mark specific locations within a display of real-world surroundings. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical information to determine placements for augmented reality elements. The systems and methods also enable a user to share an augmented reality or virtual reality environment with another user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte Mac Donell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR., Mark David Teater
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Publication number: 20210295577Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include displaying vehicle environment awareness. In some embodiments, a visualization system may display an abstract representation of a vehicle's physical environment via a mobile device and/or a device embedded in the vehicle. For example, the visualization may use a voxel grid to represent the environment and may alter characteristics of shapes in the grid to increase their visual prominence when the sensors of the vehicle detect that an object is occupying the space represented by the shapes. In some embodiments, the visualization may gradually increase and reduce the visual prominence of shapes in the grid to create a soothing wave effect. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Han Han Xue, Jisi Guo, Katherine Marisa Dill, Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen, Audrey Liu, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR.
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Patent number: 11118930Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environment for a driver or a passenger including augmented reality elements to mark specific locations within a display of real-world surroundings. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical information to determine placements for augmented reality elements. The systems and methods also enable a user to share an augmented reality or virtual reality environment with another user.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: LYFT, INC.Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte MacDonell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Mark David Teater
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Identifying objects for display in a situational-awareness view of an autonomous-vehicle environment
Patent number: 11080534Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving autonomous-vehicle sensor data from a sensor array of an autonomous vehicle. The autonomous-vehicle sensor data indicates an object in an external environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes accessing secondary data associated with the object from one or more secondary-data sources that are independent of the sensor array of the autonomous vehicle. The method also includes determining, based on the autonomous-vehicle sensor data and the secondary data, an object graphic to visually represent the object. The method also includes providing for display a visual representation of the external environment of the autonomous vehicle that includes the determined object graphic to visually represent the object.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Taggart Matthiesen, Craig Dehner, Linda Dong, Frank Taehyun Yoo, Karina van Schaardenburg, John Tighe, Matt Vitelli, Jisi Guo, Eli Guerron -
Patent number: 11010615Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving autonomous-vehicle sensor data from a sensor array of an autonomous vehicle. The autonomous-vehicle sensor data indicates an object in an external environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method further includes determining a confidence score for a classification of the object. The method further includes determining an object graphic with a level of detail to visually represent the object. The level of detail of the object graphic is based on the confidence score. The method further includes providing for display a visual representation the object graphic.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Taggart Matthiesen, Craig Dehner, Linda Dong, Frank Taehyun Yoo, Karina van Schaardenburg, John Tighe, Matt Vitelli, Jisi Guo, Eli Guerron
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Patent number: 10991159Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for a virtual reality transportation system. In particular, the systems and methods described herein present a virtual reality experience including a virtual environment for display to a passenger including virtual inertial interactions that correspond to real-world inertial forces that a passenger experiences while riding in a vehicle. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical sensory data to predict inertial forces that the passenger will experience while riding in the vehicle. The systems and methods also generate a virtual sensory view for display to a passenger to represent what an autonomous transportation vehicle sees by way of a sensor suite used for navigation.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: LYFT, INC.Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte MacDonell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Mark David Teater
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Patent number: 10970903Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include displaying vehicle environment awareness. In some embodiments, a visualization system may display an abstract representation of a vehicle's physical environment via a mobile device and/or a device embedded in the vehicle. For example, the visualization may use a voxel grid to represent the environment and may alter characteristics of shapes in the grid to increase their visual prominence when the sensors of the vehicle detect that an object is occupying the space represented by the shapes. In some embodiments, the visualization may gradually increase and reduce the visual prominence of shapes in the grid to create a soothing wave effect. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Han Han Xue, Jisi Guo, Katherine Marisa Dill, Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen, Audrey Liu, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200364931Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for a virtual reality transportation system. In particular, the systems and methods described herein present a virtual reality experience including a virtual environment for display to a passenger including virtual inertial interactions that correspond to real-world inertial forces that a passenger experiences while riding in a vehicle. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical sensory data to predict inertial forces that the passenger will experience while riding in the vehicle. The systems and methods also generate a virtual sensory view for display to a passenger to represent what an autonomous transportation vehicle sees by way of a sensor suite used for navigation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte Mac Donell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR., Mark David Teater
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Publication number: 20200311846Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may determine one or more characteristics of an autonomous vehicle, determine one or more characteristics of one or more road segments of a geographic area, determine at least one geographic zone for the autonomous vehicle within the geographic area based at least on the characteristics of the autonomous vehicle and the characteristics of the one or more road segments of the at least one geographic area, and match a request with the autonomous vehicle within the at least one geographic zone based at least in part on a request location and a destination location of the request being associated with the at least one geographic zone. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Jessica Yunan Chen, Gavin Sebastian Hurley, Leighton Kamaile Jen, Jonathan Patrick O'Keefe, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR., John Tighe, Alexis Weill, Adam Alexander Wolf
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Patent number: 10769452Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, based on map data, an area for pick-up or drop-off of a user by an autonomous vehicle. The method also includes determining, based on autonomous-vehicle sensor data that represents an external environment of the autonomous vehicle, one or more potential pick-up or drop-off locations within the area. The method also includes calculating, based at least in part on the autonomous-vehicle sensor data and historical data a viability score for each of the potential pick-up or drop-off locations. The historical data includes past pick-up or drop-off locations for one or more past users. The method also includes providing for display a visual representation of at least a portion of the area for pick-up or drop-off that indicates at least one of the one or more potential pick-up or drop-off locations.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Taggart Matthiesen, Craig Dehner, Linda Dong, Frank Taehyun Yoo, Karina van Schaardenburg, John Tighe, Matt Vitelli, Jisi Guo, Eli Guerron
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Publication number: 20200090387Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include displaying vehicle environment awareness. In some embodiments, a visualization system may display an abstract representation of a vehicle's physical environment via a mobile device and/or a device embedded in the vehicle. For example, the visualization may use a voxel grid to represent the environment and may alter characteristics of shapes in the grid to increase their visual prominence when the sensors of the vehicle detect that an object is occupying the space represented by the shapes. In some embodiments, the visualization may gradually increase and reduce the visual prominence of shapes in the grid to create a soothing wave effect. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Han Han Xue, Jisi Guo, Katherine Marisa Dill, Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen, Audrey Liu, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR.
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Patent number: 10360714Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include displaying vehicle environment awareness. In some embodiments, a visualization system may display an abstract representation of a vehicle's physical environment via a mobile device and/or a device embedded in the vehicle. For example, the visualization may use a voxel grid to represent the environment and may alter characteristics of shapes in the grid to increase their visual prominence when the sensors of the vehicle detect that an object is occupying the space represented by the shapes. In some embodiments, the visualization may gradually increase and reduce the visual prominence of shapes in the grid to create a soothing wave effect. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Han Han Xue, Jisi Guo, Katherine Marisa Dill, Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen, Audrey Liu, Oleg Vadim Panichev, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr.
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Patent number: 10354440Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for a virtual reality transportation system. In particular, the systems and methods described herein present a virtual reality experience including a virtual environment for display to a passenger including virtual inertial interactions that correspond to real-world inertial forces that a passenger experiences while riding in a vehicle. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical sensory data to predict inertial forces that the passenger will experience while riding in the vehicle. The systems and methods also generate a virtual sensory view for display to a passenger to represent what an autonomous transportation vehicle sees by way of a sensor suite used for navigation.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: LYFT, INC.Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte MacDonell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr., Mark David Teater
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Publication number: 20190017839Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environment for a driver or a passenger including augmented reality elements to mark specific locations within a display of real-world surroundings. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical information to determine placements for augmented reality elements. The systems and methods also enable a user to share an augmented reality or virtual reality environment with another user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte Mac Donell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR., Mark David Teater
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Patent number: D883302Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Han Han Xue, Jisi Guo, Katherine Marisa Dill, Audrey Liu, Robert Earl Rasmusson, Jr.