ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,816, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Occupant state monitoring apparatus" was invented by Shinichi Miyamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant state monitoring apparatus includes an imager and a calculation controller. The imager is configured to capture an image of a region including an eyeball of an occupant who is in a vehicle, to obtain an image. The calculation controller is configured to detect, based on a part of the eyeball reflected in the image, a line of sight of the occupant and a device disposed in a compartment of the vehicle, and monitor a state of the occupant based on the devi...