US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, AISIN on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining driver's behavior" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,998, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining driver's behavior" was invented by Taku Mitsumori (Kariya, Japan), Yuki Horiuchi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Masahiro Ishihara (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yuji Yamanishi (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Yuki Takeda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining a driver's behavior includes a processor configured to detect a looking direction of a driver of a vehicle, based on an image obtained by a camera provided to capture the interior of the vehicle, calculate an ...