GM Global Technology Operations LLC (20250065896). DRIVER ATTENTION DETECTION

DRIVER ATTENTION DETECTION

Organization Name

GM Global Technology Operations LLC

Inventor(s)

Arun Adiththan of Sterling Heights MI (US)

Vikramaditya Nimmagadda of Sterling Heights MI (US)

Aravind Gangumalla of Novi MI (US)

DRIVER ATTENTION DETECTION

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250065896 titled 'DRIVER ATTENTION DETECTION

Original Abstract Submitted

a system for monitoring a driver in a vehicle includes a driver monitoring system adapted to monitor the driver of the vehicle, a system controller in communication with the driver monitoring system and adapted to collect data from the driver monitoring system related to gaze behavior of the driver, classify the driver as one of a plurality of driver attention statuses based on the data from the driver monitoring system, the driver attention statuses including safe, borderline and unsafe, and, when the driver status is unsafe, prompt the driver, via a human machine interface (hmi), with questions adapted to test the alertness of the driver, receive, via the hmi, from the driver, responses to the questions, analyze the responses, and initiate responsive actions based on the responses from the driver.