Patent ID: 11919522
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for accurately determining a state of a driver, comprising a processor and a memory storing computer executable instructions that are executable by the processor to,
when a vehicle driven by a driver is on a straight road section, set a predetermined area as an area in which looking directions or face orientations of a driver indicate the driver is in a state of careless driving;
if a road condition around the vehicle changes, enlarge the predetermined area based on the changed road condition;
automatically sense looking directions or face orientations of the driver of the vehicle with camera images received from a driver monitoring camera,
automatically determine a movement area in which movement values indicating the looking directions or face orientations of the driver of the vehicle are distributed is included in the enlarged predetermined area, and
if the movement area is within the enlarged predetermined area, automatically determine that the diver is in a state of careless driving, and if the movement area is outside the enlarged predetermined area, automatically determine that the driver is not in a state of careless driving.