US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on March 17 for "Driver state determination apparatus, circuit and computer program therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,825, issued on March 17, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Driver state determination apparatus, circuit and computer program therefor" was invented by Akiko Fukui (Hiroshima, Japan), Yohei Iwashita (Hiroshima, Japan), Koji Iwase (Hiroshima, Japan), Satoru Takenaka (Hiroshima, Japan) and Daiki Izumoto (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver state determination apparatus includes: an in-vehicle camera detecting a driver's sightline and head behavior; and a controller configured to determine the driver's state based on the driver's sightline and head behavior. When the driver is in an abnormal st...