Patent ID: 11953911
Assignee: WAYMO LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 12:
13. An apparatus for presenting visual alert information to one or more occupants of a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode, the apparatus comprising:
a sensor;
at least one display; and
one or more processors coupled to the sensor and the at least one display, the one or more processors configured to:
receive sensor data generated by the sensor;
generate visual alert information including a subject vehicle icon representing the vehicle surrounded by a notification image having a plurality of different portions corresponding to respective predetermined peripheral areas of an environment surrounding the vehicle; and
presenting the visual alert information on the at least one display to the one or more occupants of the vehicle,
wherein each portion of the plurality of different portions of the notification image is configured to present a warning, and a level of urgency of the warning, to the one or more occupants of the vehicle indicating that an object has been identified by the sensor data in one of the respective predetermined peripheral areas of the environment surrounding the vehicle.