Patent ID: 11919534
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A driver state guide device usable in a vehicle comprising:
a state identification unit identifying a present state of a driver of the vehicle;
a target estimation unit estimating a target state of the driver;
a route prediction unit providing a predicted route of the vehicle;
a situation prediction unit predicting a situation in the predicted route;
a planning unit planning a stimulus plan, including a stimulus for the driver, to be used in the predicted route to guide the driver from the present state to the target state, according to:
(i) the present state identified by the state identification unit,
(ii) the target state estimated by the target estimation unit, and
(iii) the situation predicted by the situation prediction unit; and

a stimulus control unit providing the stimulus according to the stimulus plan.