MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202047041026 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on Sept. 22, 2020, for 'pickup and drop-off location identification for ridesharing and delivery via augmented reality.'
Inventor(s) include Czymontek, Herbert; Li, Dan; and Greenwald, Max.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 5, under issue no. 36/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "To present a pickup location in a transportation service, a server device receives a request for ridesharing services from a rider's current location to a drop-off location. The server device broadcasts the request to drivers and receives an indication of acceptance of the request from one of the drivers. Then the server device provides a pickup location to the rider and the driver which is presented in a map display of the rider and driver's client devices. When the rider or driver's current location is within a threshold distance of the pickup location, the corresponding client device switches to an augmented reality mode and presents a camera view from a camera of the client device depicting real- world imagery. The server device provides information to the corresponding client device to present in the augmented reality mode overlaying the real-world imagery to assist the rider or driver in finding the pickup location."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 15, 2019, under International application No.PCT/US2019/022409.
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