US Patent Issued to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 25 for "Directing a drivers gaze based on directional audio" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,847, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Directing a drivers gaze based on directional audio" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Carlos, Calif.) and Jean Marcel Dos Reis Costa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting a direction of focus for a driver includes identifying a first direction of focus, of the driver of a vehicle, at a first time period in accordance with monitoring one or both of a gaze direction of the driver or a head pose of the driver. The method further includes generating audio from one or ...