ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,922, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Driving support device" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Hirokazu Ito (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Hiroshi Oyagi (Kyoto, Japan), Shinya Shiratori (Susono, Japan) and Norimi Asahara (Numazu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support device, in a mobile body having a plurality of seating positions, includes a processor to set a priority order for seating positions when performing improvement control with respect to emotion of an occupant, acquire a captured image and/or biometric information of the occupant, inp...