Patent ID: 9349300
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G09B

Claim Text:
1. A driving simulator for assessing and improving driving skills of a senior driver comprising: a computerized audio/visual device programmed to: display an interactive driving simulation presented through four active visual zones from a driver's-seat perspective comprising (1) a driver's forward view, (2) a rear mirror view, (3) a left side minor view, and (4) a right side mirror view, wherein the driver's forward view includes stitched video from a first camera that recorded a driver's side window view, a second camera that recorded a windshield view, and a third camera that recorded a passenger's window, and wherein the rear minor view, left side mirror view, and right side mirror view each simultaneously depict a scene recorded simultaneously with the driver's forward view; display movement of a plurality of objects moving from one of the four active visual zones to one of two inactive zones representing a left blind spot and a right blind spot; track the movement of the plurality of objects into the one of the two inactive zones; stop the interactive driving simulation after one of the plurality of objects moves into the one of the two inactive zones; display a top-down-perspective graphic six zone screen, wherein each zone of the six zone screen represents the driver's forward view, the rear minor view, the left side mirror view, the right side minor view, the left blind spot, and the right blind spot respectively; display a prompt to the senior driver to identify the one of the plurality of objects that is in the one of the two inactive zones at the time the interactive driving simulation was stopped; determine if the senior driver's response to the prompt was correct; and determine the senior driver's response time to the prompt.