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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2024
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Emily Sarah Sumner, Cambridge, MA (US);
Guy Rosman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Xinyue Hu, Irvine, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Decastro, Arlington, MA (US);
Andrew Michael Silva, Cambridge, MA (US);
Deepak Edakkattil Gopinath, Washington, DC (US);
Thomas M. Balch, Damariscotta, ME (US);
Xiongyi Cui, Somerville, MA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to building the trust of an occupant in an automated vehicle function. In one embodiment, a method for buildling the trust includes acquiring trust data regarding an automated function of a vehicle, an external environment of the vehicle, and an occupant of the vehicle. The method also includes processing the trust data to determine a baseline trust of the occupant in the automated function executing an action for the vehicle. The method also includes identifying a trust level of the occupant. The method further includes determining, based, at least in part, on the trust data and in response to identifying that the trust level satisfies a threshold, a trust message and a content type and a delivery type of the trust message. The method further includes delivering the trust message to the occupant.