US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 26 for "Monitoring device, storage medium storing computer program for monitoring, and monitoring method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,460, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Monitoring device, storage medium storing computer program for monitoring, and monitoring method" was invented by Shunichiroh Sawai (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device comprises a processor configured to estimate whether or not a non-stimulating environment has appeared in front of a driver which may cause the driver to have a lower alertness level or to engage in unfocused driving, based on multiple images taken of an environment ahead of a vehicle across a predetermined time period, and to act on the driver via a notificati...