ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,130, issued on April 29, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Isamu Nagasawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a traveling state detector, an occupant monitoring detector, an emotion determination processor, an environment recognizer, and a driving assistance processor. The emotion determination processor determines an emotion of an occupant of the vehicle, based on outputs of the traveling state detector and the occupant monitoring detector. The driving assistance processor performs driving assistance control includi...