US Patent Issued to NOTA on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and method for detecting distraction of driver in driving monitoring system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,076, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NOTA INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for detecting distraction of driver in driving monitoring system" was invented by Sangtae Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Eunsik Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Wheemyung Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting distraction of a driver in a driver monitoring system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first image including the driver within a vehicle. The method includes determining a gaze class corresponding to the first image among a plurality of gaze classes by using a first model in respon...