US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on March 24 for "Driving support device, method, and computer program for supporting driving" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,460, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-City, Japan).

"Driving support device, method, and computer program for supporting driving" was invented by Koichiro Yamauchi (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Takuya Sakata (Tokyo-to, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving support device includes a processor configured to detect a sign of sleepiness of a driver of a vehicle, based on a driver image representing the driver's head generated by a driver monitoring camera configured to take a picture of the driver's head, determine a response request to the driver, depending on environment ...