US Patent Application 18203110. 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 18203110 titled 'DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Simplified Explanation
The patent application describes a gaze estimation device for determining where a person is looking among multiple options.
- The device calculates the probability of the person looking at each option based on their gaze and a probability distribution.
- It then identifies the option with a probability value equal to or greater than a set threshold as the one the person is looking at.
Original Abstract Submitted
Provided is a gaze estimation device for estimating toward which gaze candidate an occupant of a 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 an object near the mobile object, the gaze estimation device being configured to: calculate, for each of the plurality of gaze candidates, a probability value of the occupant directing his or her gaze toward the gaze candidate based on the gaze and a probability distribution representing probabilities of directing his or her gaze toward each of the plurality of gaze candidates; and estimate that the occupant is directing his or her gaze toward a gaze candidate for which the probability value is equal to or larger than a threshold value among the plurality of gaze candidates.
