US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on May 5 for "Driver monitoring device, driver monitoring method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,339, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Driver monitoring device, driver monitoring method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Masataka Sano (Tokyo), Hiromi Nemoto (Tokyo) and Yutaro Tsugawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driver monitoring device includes a judgment part configured to judge whether a driver of a vehicle is driving distracted by a predetermined judgment criteria based on an image generated by an imaging device capturing a face of the driver, a notification part configured to issue a warning to the driver when it is judg...