ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,237, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle surrounding environment monitoring apparatus" was invented by Shinichi Miyamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle surrounding environment monitoring apparatus includes an imaging device, a memory, a notifier, and a vehicle control processor. The imaging device acquires surrounding person facial information on the surrounding person. The memory stores occupant facial information on an occupant of the vehicle. The notifier issues a notification to one or both of the surrounding person and the occupant. The vehicle control processor performs a determina...