US Patent Issued to Futurewei Technologies on July 1 for "Primary preview region and gaze based driver distraction detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,498, issued on July 1, was assigned to Futurewei Technologies Inc. (Addison, Texas).

"Primary preview region and gaze based driver distraction detection" was invented by Hai Yu (San Jose, Calif.), Fatih Porikli (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuzhu Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of detecting distracted driving comprises: determining, by one or more processors, a primary preview region (PPR) in a representation of an environment; determining, by the one or more processors, a gaze point for a driver based on a sequence of images of the driver; determining, by the one or more processors, that th...