US Patent Application 18202391. DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM simplified abstract
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DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
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DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18202391 titled 'DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Simplified Explanation
This patent application describes a driving assistance device that can recognize external objects near a vehicle and estimate the direction of the driver's gaze towards different potential objects of interest.
- The device uses a storage medium and a processor to execute computer-readable commands.
- It can identify an external object close to the vehicle.
- It estimates which object the driver is looking at from a list of potential objects, including those on the vehicle itself and the external object.
- If the driver's gaze is directed towards a specific object for a certain period of time or longer, it determines that the driver visually recognizes that object.
- Based on this determination, the device provides driving assistance for the vehicle.
Original Abstract Submitted
Provided is a driving assistance device including a storage medium storing computer-readable commands and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable commands to: recognize an external object near a mobile object; estimate toward which gaze candidate an occupant of the mobile object is directing his or her gaze from among a plurality of gaze candidates including gaze candidates existing on a structure of the mobile object and the external object; determine that the occupant visually recognizes a gaze candidate from among the plurality of gaze candidates when the occupant is estimated to direct his or her gaze toward the gaze candidate for a first predetermined period or more; and execute driving assistance for the mobile object based on a determination result.
