ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,909, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Apparatus and method for steering adjustment" was invented by Ryusuke Kuroda (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for steering adjustment detects a gaze direction of a driver of a vehicle from a facial image in which a face of the driver is represented. During autonomous driving in which steering of the vehicle is autonomously controlled, when an operation by the driver on a steering wheel is detected, determines whether the gaze direction of the driver corresponds to the steering direction in the operation of the driver. The apparatu...