US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, DENSO on Sept. 22 for "Visual recognition determination device and control method for visual recognition determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,904, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Visual recognition determination device and control method for visual recognition determination device" was invented by Jiro Fujino (Tokyo), Kenichiroh Hara (Yokohama, Japan), Satoru Kawakami (Tokyo), Hiroshi Morimoto (Tokyo) and Kenta Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual recognition determination device for determining whether a driver has visually recognized an object detected by an external sensor of a vehicle is configured to perform estimating a sight-line vector of the driver using a driver monitoring...