ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,727, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Notification device and notification method" was invented by Kenta Yamada (Tokyo-to, Japan), Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan), Hiroshi Morimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Udara Eshan Manawadu (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A notification device detecting a predetermined action of a driver of a vehicle in which travel is controlled by an autonomous driving system from a driver image including a face region representing a face of the driver and outputting a confidence rate indicating a certainty in the detection, specifying...