ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,171, issued on April 21, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).
"Eye gaze automotive lane change activation" was invented by Andrew Wassef (Novi, Mich.), Namal P. Kumara (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Paul A. Adam (Milford, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for vehicle lane change activation by eye gaze pattern recognition that includes capturing and sending, using an inward-looking vehicle camera, a video stream of a face of a driver. Based on the video stream a series of eye gaze directions of the driver is estimated and associated with one or more target areas. The computing module controlle...