US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Nov. 3 for "Driver state estimation apparatus, system and associated methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,216, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Driver state estimation apparatus, system and associated methods" was invented by Satoru Takenaka (Aki-gun, Japan), Kengo Tanaka (Aki-gun, Japan), Ariki Sato (Aki-gun, Japan) and Koji Iwase (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Solution] A driver state estimation apparatus includes a controller estimating a state of the driver based on travel environment information and the driver's line of sight. When a condition for performing individual learning is satisfied, the controller calculates a mean Mui and a variance Sigmai of a feature value xi for ea...