Patent ID: 11919454
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. An occupant monitoring device for a vehicle, the occupant monitoring device comprising:
a display configured to display a screen to be viewed by occupants in the vehicle, wherein the display is disposed such that 1) a display midline extending between a top and a bottom of the display and running through a display midpoint between a left side and a right side of the display is shifted toward a passenger side of the vehicle from a vehicle midline extending between a front side to a rear side of the vehicle and running through a vehicle midpoint between a passenger side and a driver side of the vehicle and 2) the display intersects the vehicle midline to form an acute angle and an obtuse angle at the intersection of the display and the vehicle midline;
a panel disposed to overlap the display and extending beyond edges of the display such that 1) a first area of the panel overlaps the display to allow the screen displayed on the display to be viewed by the occupants and 2) a second area of the panel extends beyond the edges of the display;
an imager disposed behind the second area of the panel such that the second area of the panel overlaps the imager when viewed from the occupants while being disposed between the display midline and the vehicle midline and behind the second area of the panel, wherein the imager is configured to capture a first image of each of the occupants in the vehicle while the screen is being displayed on the display; and
a determiner configured to determine conditions of the occupants in the vehicle using the captured first image of each of the occupants.