US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on May 19 for "Prediction device and method for driver microsleep based on eye closure duration" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,141, issued on May 19, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Prediction device and method for driver microsleep based on eye closure duration" was invented by Chisato Imamura (Osaka, Japan), Takayoshi Koyama (Osaka, Japan), Wataru Nakai (Tokyo) and Soichi Kimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction device includes a state detector that detects a state related to sleepiness of a driver; an eye-closure duration detector that detects an eye-closure duration of the driver; and a microsleep predictor that predicts that the driver is in the microsleep state, on conditions that the sta...