US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Jan. 27 for "Distraction judgment device, distraction judgment method, and nontransitory computer storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,088, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Distraction judgment device, distraction judgment method, and nontransitory computer storage medium" was invented by Hiroshi Morimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kenta Yamada (Tokyo-to, Japan), Jiro Fujino (Toyota, Japan), Kenichiroh Hara (Yokohama, Japan) and Satoru Kawakami (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distraction judgment device detecting an object present in a front direction of a vehicle based on surrounding data showing a situation around that vehicle, detecting a gaze origin and gaze direction of the driver...