US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, AISIN on April 7 for "Driver monitor, method, and computer program for monitoring driver" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,953, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Driver monitor, method, and computer program for monitoring driver" was invented by Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitor includes a processor configured to detect orientation of the face of a driver of a vehicle from a plurality of driver images generated by a camera mounted on the vehicle to take a picture of the driver, determine whether a duration during which the orientation of the driver's face inclines more than a predetermined angle in a yaw direction of the vehicle with respect to ...