Patent ID: 11922706
Assignee: VEONEER US LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A driver monitoring system of a vehicle, comprising:
a camera configured to capture an image of a driver on a driver's seat within a passenger cabin of the vehicle;
a gaze module configured to determine a gaze vector based on a direction of pupils of the driver in the image;
an area module configured to determine an area on a vertical plane in front of the driver based on a road in front of the vehicle and to increase a size of the area by moving a vertical edge of the area when the road in front of the vehicle curves from the perspective of the driver;
a location module configured to determine a location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane; and
a monitor module that determines whether the location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane is within the area on the vertical plane,
wherein the area module is further configured to:
when a present lane of the vehicle is to merge with a first one or more lanes to the left of the vehicle, move a right vertical edge of the vehicle to the left to a right boundary of the right most one of the first one or more lanes; and
when the present lane of the vehicle is to merge with a second one or more lanes to the right of the vehicle, move a left vertical edge of the vehicle to the right to a left boundary of the left most one of the first one or more lanes.