US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Aug. 4 for "Occupant monitoring apparatus for vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,976, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Occupant monitoring apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Yuki Aoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant monitoring apparatus for a vehicle includes an imager and an occupant monitoring controller. The imager is configured to acquire an image of a driver who drives the vehicle. The occupant monitoring controller includes a behavior change detector and an alarm outputter. The behavior change detector is configured to perform a detection of a change in a behavior of the driver based on the image acquired by the imager. The alarm outputter is configured to outp...