ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,473, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Notification control device" was invented by Kiyotoshi Sekine (Kakamigahara, Japan), Takahiko Kuwabara (Yokohama, Japan) and Ko Igarashi (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a driver of a vehicle is not recognized by a driver monitoring camera during autonomous driving, it is determined whether a notification relaxation condition is satisfied based on a driver status and a driving status of the vehicle. When it is determined that the notification relaxation condition is not satisfied, normal notification processing is executed in which...