Patent ID: 11930264
Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A vehicular driver monitoring system, the vehicular driver monitoring system comprising:
a camera disposed at an interior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular driver monitoring system, the camera viewing interior of the vehicle and capturing image data;
an electronic control unit (ECU) comprising electronic circuitry and associated software;
wherein the electronic circuitry of the ECU comprises an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera;
wherein the camera comprises an imaging array sensor and a lens;
wherein the camera is adjustable by at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) adjusting a position of the imaging array sensor relative to the lens and (ii) adjusting a position of the lens relative to the imaging array sensor;
wherein the vehicular driver monitoring system, responsive to processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera, monitors a body portion of a driver of the vehicle; and
wherein the vehicular driver monitoring system, responsive to determining a change in a position of the body portion of the driver relative to a field of view of the camera, adjusts the camera to adjust the position of where the monitored body portion of the driver is imaged at the imaging array sensor, and wherein the camera is adjusted by shifting an optical axis of the lens relative to the imaging array sensor.