ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,111, issued on Jan. 13.
"Drowsiness detection for vehicle control" was invented by Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.) and Robert Richard Noel Bielby (Placerville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus of drowsiness detection for vehicle control. For example, a vehicle includes: a camera configured to face a driver of the vehicle and generate a sequence of images of the driver driving the vehicle; an artificial neural network configured to analyze the sequence of images and classify, based on the sequence of images, whether the driver is in a drowsy state; and an infotainment system configured to provide instr...