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Patent No.:

US 11423674 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2020

Vehicle occupant gaze detection

Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Kyoung Min Lee, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Parthasarathy Subburaj, Chennai/Tamil Nadu, IN;

Durga Priya Kumar, Gummidipoondi/Tamil Nadu, IN;

Tilak D, Bangalore/Karnataka, IN;

Assignee:

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:

Frank A. MacKenzie

Bejin Bieneman PLC

Primary Examiner:

Jerome Grant, Ii

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/597 (2022.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 60/0051 (2020.02); B60W 60/0059 (2020.02); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 40/171 (2022.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); B60W 2540/225 (2020.02); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine respective probabilities of a direction of a gaze of a vehicle occupant toward each of a plurality of points in an image, determine a gaze distance from a center of the image based on the probabilities, and, upon determining that the gaze distance exceeds a threshold, suppress manual control of at least one vehicle component.

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