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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2018
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuta Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 9/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/00845 (2013.01); B60Q 5/005 (2013.01); G06K 9/0061 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01);
Abstract
A direction in which a driver is looking can be evaluated even when the direction in which the driver should look has changed depending on the driving situation. A driving support device includes a face direction determinator that determines the direction of the face of a driver of a movable body, a line-of-sight direction determinator that determines the direction of the line of sight of the driver, and an alert processing unit that determines at least one of the necessity and an extent of alerting the driver on the basis of an extent of the difference between the direction of the face and the direction of the line of sight.