Patent ID: 11873007
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 5:
6. An information processing method for controlling a vehicle by a device, the method comprising:
detecting one or more objects that are around the vehicle or that are around a moving path of the vehicle and generating corresponding vehicle peripheral information;
monitoring a position of a pupil of a driver of the vehicle in order to detect a line-of-sight direction of the driver;
based on the vehicle peripheral information, determining that the detected line-of-sight direction does not correspond to a predetermined safe line-of-sight direction for a current driving state of the vehicle; and
changing the current driving state of the vehicle to a predetermined safe driving state,
wherein the current driving state and the predetermined safe line-of-sight direction is one of a set of driving states and safe line-of-sight directions, the set of driving states and safe line-of-sight directions consisting of:
traveling straight on a road and a forward looking line-of-sight,
presence of a pedestrian or an oncoming vehicle and a line-of-sight directed to the pedestrian or the oncoming vehicle,
a lane change of the vehicle and a line-of-sight direction corresponding to the lane change, and
a right or left change of direction of the vehicle and a line-of-sight direction corresponding to the right or left change of direction, and

wherein predetermined safe driving state is each of a set of predetermined safe driving states that comprises:
an automatic lane change to a safest lane in a plurality of lanes of a currently traveling road that is determined by a risk evaluation calculation performed by the circuitry, and
an automatic reduction of speed of the vehicle.