ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,822, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Data transmitter and method for data transmission" was invented by Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmitter to be mounted on a vehicle detects the driver's state from output data of a camera mounted on the vehicle. The data transmitter determines whether the driver's state is suitable for continuing the control by the level of autonomous driving; transmits, when it is determined that the state is suitable for continuing the control, the face image to a terminal communicably connected via a ...