Patent ID: 9666091
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: A61B,G09B

Claim:
1. A driving simulator for assessing and improving driving skills of a trainee having impaired driving abilities 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 mirror view, and (4) a right side mirror view, wherein the rear mirror view, left side mirror view, and right side mirror view each simultaneously depict a scene occurring simultaneously with the driver's forward view; display movement of an object moving through one of the four active visual zones and one of two inactive zones representing a left blind spot and a right blind spot; track the location of the object in one of the four active visual zones or one of the two inactive zones; stop the presentation of the training session after the object moves through at least two of the multiple active visual zones and one of the two inactive zones; display a top-down-perspective graphic multi-zone screen, wherein each zone of the multi-zone screen represents one of the driver's forward view, the rear mirror view, the left side mirror view, the right side mirror view, the left blind spot, and the right blind spot respectively; display a prompt to the trainee to point and click on the zone in the graphic multi-zone screen in which the object was located at the time the presentation of the training session was stopped; receive the trainee's response to the prompt; determine if the trainee's response to the prompt was correct; and determine the trainee's response time to the prompt.