US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Driver monitoring device, driver monitoring method, and driver monitoring computer program for notifying a driver to pay attention" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,181, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driver monitoring device, driver monitoring method, and driver monitoring computer program for notifying a driver to pay attention" was invented by Hiromi Nemoto (Shinagawa-ku Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitoring device includes a processor configured to calculate a degree of complexity of a situation around a vehicle based on at least one image generated by a camera mounted on the vehicle and representing the situation, set an alert condition for urging a driver of the vehicle to pay attention so that the alert condition is re...