ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,197, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and program" was invented by Eiji Oba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decelerating a vehicle, a non-transitory computer-readable medium for performing the method, and reception apparatuses. The method includes monitoring a state of a driver of the vehicle, and causing a notification to be output based on the monitored state of the driver. The method further includes determining, by circuitry of an information processing apparatus and when operating in a manual operation mode, whether to cause the vehic...