US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Driver assistance device and driver assistance system including driver assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,429, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driver assistance device and driver assistance system including driver assistance device" was invented by Noriyuki Shimobayashi (Toyota, Japan) and Naoki Horikawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on image information captured by a camera sensor, a deviation degree determination unit determines the degree of deviation when a situation occurs in which a vehicle V deviates from its lane. Vibration pattern information according to the degree of deviation is transmitted to the wearable device, and a vibration device contained in the wearable d...