US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 16 for "Determining emotion of a driver during driving assistance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,515, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Determining emotion of a driver during driving assistance" was invented by Hirokazu Ito (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 apparatus including a processor, where the processor acquires operation information for an own vehicle by a driver at the time of a driving assistance intervention for keeping a lane of the own vehicle, environmental information including another vehicle around the own vehicle, and biometric information...