Patent ID: 9527442
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: B60K,B60Q,B60R,G01C,G06K,G08G,H04W,Y02T

Claim Text:
1. A driver dangerous driving reporting device comprising: a danger prediction unit for associating a driver inside a vehicle with a subject outside the vehicle, and, on the basis of a single image simultaneously representing the driver and the subject, predicting dangerous driving of the vehicle by the driver; and a danger reporting unit for reporting the dangerous driving by the driver to the driver when the dangerous driving is predicted by the danger prediction unit, wherein either a view inside the vehicle including the driver or a view outside the vehicle including the subject appears in a top side or a bottom side of the single image, with one of the view inside the vehicle and the view outside the vehicle provided as a vertical inversion of the other view in the single image, the danger prediction unit comprises: a driver's field of view detection unit for detecting line of sight and/or facial orientation of the driver within one of the top side and the bottom side of the single image, and a danger factor detection unit for detecting a danger factor within the other one of the top side and the bottom side of the single image, the danger prediction unit is configured to judge whether the danger factor is positioned outside the drivers field of view depending on whether the line of sight and/or facial orientation of the driver is directed to the danger factor within the single image, for predicting the dangerous driving of the vehicle.