ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,052, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Magna Electronics inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular driver monitoring system with video-calling function" was invented by Martin Solar (Erlenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly at an interior cabin of a vehicle, with a camera at the interior rearview mirror assembly and viewing toward at least a front driver seat region of the vehicle. Image data captured by the camera is processed to monitor a driver of the vehicle. Video-calling wireless communication between an occupant of the vehicle and a party...