Joshua Jacob Inch

20210019529, Jan 21, 2021

Oct 7, 2020

17/065391

- San Francisco CA, US
Joshua Inch - Seattle WA, US
Christopher Michael Sanchez - San Francisco CA, US
Theodore Russell Sumers - San Francisco CA, US

G06K 9/00
H04B 17/318
G06T 19/00
H04B 17/27
H04B 17/373

A network system, such as a transport management system, uses augmented reality (AR) to identify an approaching vehicle. Responsive to receiving a trip request, a trip management module matches the rider with an available driver and instructs a trip monitoring module to monitor the location of the driver's vehicle as it travels to the pickup location. When the driver's vehicle is within a threshold distance of the pickup location, an AR control module instructs the rider client device to begin a live video stream and instructs an image recognition module to monitor the video stream for the driver's vehicle. Responsive to the driver's vehicle entering the field of view of the camera on the rider client device, the AR control module selects computer-generated AR elements and instructs the rider client device to visually augment the video stream to identify the driver's vehicle as it approaches the pickup location.

20200041294, Feb 6, 2020

Oct 14, 2019

16/601516

- San Francisco CA, US
Joshua Inch - Seattle WA, US
Christopher Michael Sanchez - San Francisco CA, US
Theodore Russell Sumers - San Francisco CA, US

G01C 21/34
G06T 11/60
G06Q 50/30
G01C 21/36

A network system, such as a transport management system, selects a pickup location for a trip and navigates a rider to the selected pickup location using augmented reality (AR). Responsive to receiving a trip request including an origin location, a pickup location selection module selects candidate pickup locations within a threshold distance of the rider client device. The pickup location selection module filters and ranks the candidates based on historical service data and location characteristics associated with the origin location as well as any history of pickups of the rider at the origin location and data from the trip request. The top-ranked candidate is selected as the pickup location and sent to the rider and driver client devices. An AR navigation module instructs the rider client device to visually augment a live video stream with computer-generated AR elements to navigate the rider from a current location to the pickup location.

20190362153, Nov 28, 2019

Aug 8, 2019

16/536024

- San Francisco CA, US
Joshua Inch - Seattle WA, US
Christopher Michael Sanchez - San Francisco CA, US
Theodore Russell Sumers - San Francisco CA, US

G06K 9/00
H04B 17/318
H04B 17/27
G06T 19/00
H04B 17/373

A network system, such as a transport management system, uses augmented reality (AR) to identify an approaching vehicle. Responsive to receiving a trip request, a trip management module matches the rider with an available driver and instructs a trip monitoring module to monitor the location of the driver's vehicle as it travels to the pickup location. When the driver's vehicle is within a threshold distance of the pickup location, an AR control module instructs the rider client device to begin a live video stream and instructs an image recognition module to monitor the video stream for the driver's vehicle. Responsive to the driver's vehicle entering the field of view of the camera on the rider client device, the AR control module selects computer-generated AR elements and instructs the rider client device to visually augment the video stream to identify the driver's vehicle as it approaches the pickup location.

20190063935, Feb 28, 2019

Aug 31, 2017

15/693317

- San Francisco CA, US
Joshua Inch - Seattle WA, US
Christopher Michael Sanchez - San Francisco CA, US
Theodore Russell Sumers - San Francisco CA, US

G01C 21/34
G01C 21/36
G06Q 50/30
G06T 11/60

A network system, such as a transport management system, selects a pickup location for a trip and navigates a rider to the selected pickup location using augmented reality (AR). Responsive to receiving a trip request including an origin location, a pickup location selection module selects candidate pickup locations within a threshold distance of the rider client device. The pickup location selection module filters and ranks the candidates based on historical service data and location characteristics associated with the origin location as well as any history of pickups of the rider at the origin location and data from the trip request. The top-ranked candidate is selected as the pickup location and sent to the rider and driver client devices. An AR navigation module instructs the rider client device to visually augment a live video stream with computer-generated AR elements to navigate the rider from a current location to the pickup location.

20190065852, Feb 28, 2019

Jun 27, 2018

16/020118

- San Francisco CA, US
Joshua Inch - Seattle WA, US
Christopher Michael Sanchez - San Francisco CA, US
Theodore Russell Sumers - San Francisco CA, US

G06K 9/00
G06T 19/00

A network system, such as a transport management system, uses augmented reality (AR) to identify an approaching vehicle. Responsive to receiving a trip request, a trip management module matches the rider with an available driver and instructs a trip monitoring module to monitor the location of the driver's vehicle as it travels to the pickup location. When the driver's vehicle is within a threshold distance of the pickup location, an AR control module instructs the rider client device to begin a live video stream and instructs an image recognition module to monitor the video stream for the driver's vehicle. Responsive to the driver's vehicle entering the field of view of the camera on the rider client device, the AR control module selects computer-generated AR elements and instructs the rider client device to visually augment the video stream to identify the driver's vehicle as it approaches the pickup location.