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

Claim 14:
15. A driver monitoring method for a vehicle, comprising:
using a camera, capturing an image of a driver on a driver's seat within a passenger cabin of the vehicle;
determining a gaze vector based on a direction of pupils of the driver in the image;
determining an area on a vertical plane in front of the driver based on a road in front of the vehicle including increasing 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;
determining a location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane; and
determining whether the location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane is within the area on the vertical plane,
wherein determining the area includes:
when a present lane of the vehicle is to merge with a first one or more lanes to the left of the vehicle, moving 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, moving 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.