US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, AISIN on May 26 for "Careless driving determination apparatus and careless driving determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,961, issued on May 26, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Careless driving determination apparatus and careless driving determination method" was invented by Masataka Sano (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Koichiro Yamauchi (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This paper discloses a careless driving determination apparatus. The careless driving determination apparatus captures a plurality of face images of a driver of a vehicle in a predetermined period using a driver monitor camera. Then, it determines whether each of the plurality of face images shows first status in which the driver...