Patent ID: 11935306
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A data collection apparatus comprising a processor configured to:
detect a person who is watching an own vehicle from image data of a surrounding environment of the own vehicle;
calculate a degree of interest the person has in the own vehicle;
determine that the degree of interest is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold;
in response to determining that the degree of interest is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold, estimate, using Facial Action Coding System, an emotion of the person based on the image data;
generate emotion data including an estimate of the emotion of the person watching the own vehicle,
specify a state of the own vehicle viewed by the person, and
correlate the emotion data with the specified state of the own vehicle; and
in response correlating the emotion data with the specified state of the own vehicle, control a storage to store the emotion data correlated with the specified state of the own vehicle.