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https://drivepatents.com/patents/995081 · 19 Dec 2012
A driving support equipment (2) for a vehicle (1) is provided, the equipment (2) characterized by a frontward information recognition unit (3) for recognizing environs information at the front of the vehicle (1); a preceding vehicle information detection u...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/998316 · 12 Sep 2012
The present invention relates to a method for monitoring the alertness of the driver (4) of a vehicle, comprising: - continuously detecting and evaluation of at least one physical parameter (PP) of the driver (4) while the vehicle is in motion, - transmitt...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1005207 · 15 Feb 2012
Disclosed herein are stability display apparatus and methods. One apparatus comprises driving state detection means adapted for detecting a driving state of a vehicle in operation; controller comprising an instability estimation means adapted for estimatin...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1006440 · 4 Jan 2012
An inattention determination device (10) includes a sight direction detecting unit (23) that detects a sight direction of a driver, and an inattention determining unit (24) that measures an inattention continuation time from a time point when the sight dir...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1007318 · 7 Dec 2011
The method involves setting alertness potential on a starting value depending on an actuation of a control element (12) by a driver. The alertness potential is reduced with a setting velocity. The setting velocity is determined under consideration of the a...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1011035 · 13 Jul 2011
The present invention periodically performs an estimate calculation of a driver's degree of consciousness; and to that end it evaluates several physiological parameters (nodding, eyes shut, head position) to decide on the action on the vehicle according to...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1013356 · 4 May 2011
A driver state estimation device 1 includes a steering angle sensor 2 detecting a steering angle of a steering, a steering torque sensor 3 detecting steering torque applied to the steering, and an ECU 4 having a steering angle estimation unit 5 and a drive...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1013438 · 27 Apr 2011
The method involves transferring the motor vehicle from a takeover condition to a safe condition. The driving interference or a request for driver assumption determines plan of action, which contains temporal operational sequence of control commands of veh...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1016314 · 26 Jan 2011
When there is a preceding vehicle in a traveling direction of a subject vehicle, an ECU (100) computes a driver condition coefficient (K) that represents degree of change in the size of an image of the preceding vehicle as viewed from the driver is compute...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1087282 · 12 May 2004
A low-cost system for detecting a drowsy condition of a driver (18) of a vehicle (10) includes a video imaging camera (20) located in the vehicle (10) and oriented to generate images (30) of a driver (18) of the vehicle (10). The system also includes a pro...