ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,138, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Alerting system and alerting method" was invented by Takahiro Matsuoka (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alerting system includes: a notification unit, when a gaze dwell time of a driver exceeds a predetermined threshold, executing a notification at a predetermined conspicuousness level to the driver via an HMI device; a decision unit deciding on a notification parameter set including parameters defining a notification output timing and the conspicuousness level; a behavior recording unit recording presence/absence of a reactive behavior to the notifi...