US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Dec. 23 for "Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,131, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and driving assistance method" was invented by Hiroshi Iwamura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance device includes: a sight line detector that detects a sight line of a first user driving a first vehicle; a feature detector that detects a feature in a vicinity of the first vehicle; a visual recognition determiner that determines whether the first user visually recognized the feature, based on the sight line detected and the feature detected; a position detector that detects a first ...