ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,948, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Apparatus and method for emotion estimation" was invented by Masahiro Ishihara (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yuki Horiuchi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Yuji Yamanishi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Taku Mitsumori (Kariya, Japan) and Yuki Takeda (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for emotion estimation sets a face feature threshold based on a plurality of face features indicating a deviation from a reference state of a predetermined part of a face detected from each of a plurality of face images representing a face of a driver of ...