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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2023
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Rohit Gupta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Benjamin Piya Austin, Saline, MI (US);
William Patrick Garrett, Plymouth, MI (US);
Philip J. Babian, Canton, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the communication of a railroad crossing warning. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a railroad crossing in a path of a road user. The method further includes in response to determining that a train is approaching the road user at the railroad crossing, determining whether a warning mechanism of the railroad crossing satisfies a crossing threshold that is based, at least in part, on a safety condition of the warning mechanism. Moreover, the method includes controlling a display of the road user to output a virtual railroad crossing bar on the display according to the safety condition responsive to determining that the warning mechanism satisfies the crossing threshold.