ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,931, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular driver monitoring system" was invented by Ramallingeswara Rao P (Andhra Pradesh, India) and Krishnanand Hindoddi (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a camera disposed at an interior cabin of a vehicle and that views at least a head region of a driver of the vehicle. The system, based on processing of image data captured by the camera, determines a current behavior of the driver. The system determines a threshold level of distraction associated with the current behavior based on a ...