ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,262, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"System and method for predicting driver situational awareness" was invented by Teruhisa Misu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kumar Akash (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for predicting a driver's situational awareness that includes receiving driving scene data associated with a driving scene of an ego vehicle and eye gaze data to track a driver's eye gaze behavior with respect to the driving scene. The system and method also include analyzing the eye gaze data and determining an eye gaze fixation value associated with each object that is...