Jaguar Land Rover Limited

Ucl Business Plc

Rebecca Matthias

Andrew Fairgrieve

Paul John King

John Simlett

Nicolas Iacovou

Lee Skrypchuk

Nilli Lavie

Alexandros Mouzakitis

Joshua Eayrs

Anthony Harris

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a control system, system and method for controlling a transition between a first driving mode and a second driving mode of a vehicle. The present disclosure relates to receiving image data of an occupant of the vehicle; quantifying one or more characteristics of the occupant's gaze based at least in part on the received image data, the one or more characteristics being indicative of the occupant's attention to a non-driving task; determining a transition profile for transitioning between the first driving mode and the second driving mode based at least in part on the one or more characteristics of the occupant's gaze; and generating and outputting a control signal to transition from the first driving mode to the second driving mode, the control signal comprising instructions for controlling one or more vehicle systems in accordance with the determined transition profile.

Vehicle control system

Embodiments of the present invention provide a control system for a vehicle, the vehicle () being operable in an at least partly autonomous mode and a manual mode, the control system comprising input means () for receiving a gaze signal () indicative of a direction of a gaze of an occupant of the vehicle (), and a contact signal () indicative of physical contact between the occupant and a control of the vehicle, control means () configured to determine an estimate of the occupant's attention to a driving task in the at least partly autonomous mode in dependence on the gaze signal () and to determine when the occupant is at least partly obscured relative to the at least one imaging means (), wherein the control means () is configured to determine the estimate of the occupant's attention to the driving task in dependence on the contact signal when it is determined that the occupant is at least partly obscured.

Apparatus and method for monitoring vehicle operation

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Coventry, United Kingdom

Rebecca Matthias