ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,072, issued on July 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Operator take-over prediction" was invented by Yuning Qiu (Plano, Texas), Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kumar Akash (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, systems, methods, and/or techniques associated with operator take-over prediction may include receiving a two-channel series of images of an operating environment through which a vehicle is travelling. A first series of images may be represented by labels corresponding to classified objects. A second series of images may be represented as a gaze heatmap or an eye trackin...