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

Claim 19:
20. The driver state guide device of claim 18, wherein
the state identification unit identifies, as the driver state, a state chosen from among:
(i) the specific state which is at least one of the sleepy state, the absent-minded state, and a stressed state, and
(ii) other states other than the specific state, including an uncomfortable state and a comfortable state, and

in a situation that a stimulus that does not match the one in the stimulus plan determined by the planning unit in the predicted route, the stimulus control unit provides, according to a predetermined priority order, a stimulus having a higher priority chosen from among (i) the stimulus according to the stimulus plan and (ii) the stimulus not according to the stimulus plan, the predetermined priority order of the stimuli is, in an order from high priority to low priority:
(a) a stimulus corresponding to sleepiness,
(b) a stimulus corresponding to the absent-minded state,
(c) a stimulus corresponding to the stressed state,
(d) a stimulus corresponding to the uncomfortable state, and
(e) a stimulus corresponding to the comfortable state.