US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle warning apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,649, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle warning apparatus" was invented by Tetsuya Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle warning apparatus to be applied to a vehicle is configured to give a warning to a driver who drives the vehicle in accordance with a state of the driver and a state of use of a mobile device by the driver in traveling of the vehicle. The vehicle warning apparatus includes: a near-infrared image data obtainer configured to acquire near-infrared image data; a visible light image data obtainer configured to acquire visible light image data; and a warner configured to ...