Provided herein is a system for precise delivery of an item to a consumer by an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. The system performs image recognition algorithms to detect a primary entrance, navigate from a street address to the primary entrance, and to validate the customer upon delivery.

An autonomous robot vehicle in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a conveyance system, a navigation system, a communication system configured to communicate with a food delivery management system, one or more storage modules including a storage compartment or a storage sub-compartment configured to store food items, one or more preparation modules including a preparation compartment or a preparation sub-compartment configured to prepare the food items, processor(s), and a memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s), cause the autonomous robot vehicle to, autonomously, receive via the communication system a food order for a destination, determine a travel route that includes the destination, control the conveyance system to travel the travel route to reach the destination, and prepare the food item while traveling on the travel route.

A radio receiver of an audio system receives a radio signal that includes a main signal and a radio data system (RDS) signal. The RDS signal includes custom information associated with media content tags and synchronized with time slots in the main signal. A media streaming service identifies targeted media content based on a profile of a mobile device connected to the audio system and sends the targeted media content to the mobile device over an Internet connection. During a playing of the audio broadcast, the audio system receives a custom information in the RDS signal and sends to the mobile device a request including the media content tag associated with the custom information. In response, the audio system receives from the mobile device a targeted media content matching the media content tag. The audio system plays the targeted media content synchronized with the time slot in the main signal.

An information processor includes a keyword acquisition section configured to acquire a keyword; a first acquisition section configured to acquire information on a description of the acquired keyword from a database; a summary creating section configured to summarize the description to create a summary; an extracting section configured to extract, from the description, at least one element that is not contained in the summary; an output section configured to output the at least one element that is not contained in the summary to a user, and to output the summary to the user after outputting the at least one element that is not contained in the summary to the user; and a profile creating section configured to create a user profile of the user in accordance with an input indicative of an interest of the user.

Systems and methods for creating advertisement campaigns are provided. In one embodiments, an advertisement planning program comprises a creating module enabling a user to create an advertisement to be displayed within an advertisement area on each of one or more media components, such as a ticket that entitles a bearer of the respective ticket to enter a place, travel by public transport, participate in an event, or enter a lottery or raffle. The advertisement planning program also comprises a run time module configured to enable the user to enter time periods during which the advertisement is initially displayed. A location selection module is configured to enable the user to select one or more remote locations where the advertisement is to be initially displayed. The advertisement creating module enables the user to electronically insert and spatially arrange graphical and/or textual elements in a window representing a predetermined size and shape of the advertisement area.

A vehicle defining an opening with a closure panel adapted to cover the opening generally includes a window in the closure panel. Furthermore, a rear window defrosting wire is often mounted to the window. A user interface system is disclosed to include a capacitive switch wire having a portion mounted to the window proximate to, and overlapping with, the rear window defrosting wire, and a capacitive switch control unit connected to the capacitive switch wire and adapted to interpret a change a capacitance near the terminus of the capacitive switch wire as a command request. The system includes a projector and a controller adapted to control the projector to project an image onto the window proximate to the terminus of the capacitive switch wire, receive an indication of receipt of the command request and transmit a command to cause a state change in an element of the vehicle.

A vehicular communication system includes a communication device in a vehicle. Responsive to the communication device receiving an input from a vehicle system indicative of a service need, the communication device requests an input from the driver of the vehicle pertaining to a desired characteristic of a service provider that can address the service need. Responsive to the communication device receiving the input from the driver, the vehicular communication system determines a plurality of service providers that (i) can address the service need and (ii) has the desired characteristic. The communication device communicates a list of the determined service providers to the driver and, responsive to the driver selecting a service provider from the list, the vehicular communication system sets a navigation system of the vehicle to navigate to the selected service provider.

A transportation system and method for managing rewards in the transportation system includes using a merchant interface to a cognitive system for managing the offering or fulfillment of a reward to a rider of a vehicle, where a merchant may specify parameters of the reward that can be earned by the rider as a result of performing an action while in the vehicle.

A method for optimizing a vehicle system involves using a neural network to optimize at least one operating parameter of a transmission portion of a continuously variable powertrain based at least in part on a classified current state of a vehicle, wherein the current state is associated with a predicted future vehicle state.

A vehicle routing system and method involves coordinating a route for a vehicle to a geographic point of interest based at least in part on monitoring an action of a rider of a vehicle to determine if the action is among a plurality of actions classified as a rewardable action, and presenting a reward-based routing to the vehicle within a transportation system upon detection that the action of the rider is a rewardable action.