Patent ID: 11900699
Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC B  G

Claim 17:
18. A device for monitoring at least a passenger of a vehicle, comprising:
a position detecting circuit for detecting a geographic position of the vehicle;
an eye-tracking device for detecting a viewing direction of the passenger;
an interface for accessing a data memory in which objects and geographic positions assigned to them are saved; and
an analytics circuit that, by using the recorded geographic position of the vehicle, is configured to:
determine whether one of the objects is located in the environment of the vehicle, and furthermore to determine whether the object in the environment of the vehicle was perceived by the passenger depending on a detected viewing direction of the passenger, a detected geographic position of the vehicle, and a geographic position of a determined object in the environment of the vehicle
detect whether informational content is output by the detected object;
in case informational content is output by the detected object:
determine recognition data on the output informational content;
record a conversation between passengers of the vehicle using a microphone in the interior of the vehicle during one or more of: while the informational content is being output and a time interval after the informational content is being output;
conduct an analysis of the recorded conversation; and
verify, by using the analysis and the determined recognition data of the informational content, whether the output informational content was perceived by the passenger of the vehicle.