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

Claim 8:
9. The occupant monitoring device for the vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a recorder configured to record 1) the first image of each of the occupants captured by the imager and 2) a second image, different from the first image, of each of the occupants in the vehicle captured by the imager,
wherein the first image of each of the occupants is captured by the imager while the occupants are looking toward the display on which the screen being displayed, and the second image of each of the occupants is captured by the imager while the occupants are looking forward toward the front side of the vehicle, and
wherein the determiner is configured to:
estimate a frontal image of the each of the occupants currently obtained by the imager based on a difference between the first image of the each of the occupants and the second image of the each of the occupants that are recorded in the recorder; and
determine the condition of the each of the occupants in the vehicle based on an image component in the estimated frontal image of the occupant.