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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2024
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Katsumi Nagata, Foster City, CA (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for a virtual ramp preview system for a vehicle. The system may include a deployable ramp that may deploy from the vehicle. The system may further include one or more cameras that may provide one or more fields of view of a surrounding area of the vehicle. The system may further include an electronic control unit (ECU) electrically connected to the one or more cameras and a user interface. The ECU may display, via the user interface, a composite image of the one or more fields of view and a virtual vehicle that is a virtual representation of the vehicle. The ECU may augment the composite image to include a virtual ramp extending from the virtual vehicle to assist a driver of the vehicle with determining an amount of space that is required to deploy the deployable ramp.
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