ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,429, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Occupant state monitoring apparatus" was invented by Satoru Iwata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant state monitoring apparatus includes an imager, a storage, and a calculation controller. The imager is configured to capture an image of an occupant who is in a vehicle. The storage is configured to store vehicle member coordinates that are position information of a vehicle member of the vehicle. The calculation controller is configured to calculate, based on the image, gaze coordinates representing a position at which the occupant gazes, and determine a state ...