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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Arriver Software Llc, Novi, MI (US);
Rachel Alexander, Chicago, IL (US);
Shabin Mahadevan, Lake Orion, MI (US);
Steffen Kuhn, Erlangen, DE;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes an interface and a control circuit. The interface may be configured to (i) receive sensor-based information from a plurality of sensor signals from a vehicle platform of a vehicle and environmental information about an environment of the vehicle, and (ii) present one or more control signals to the vehicle platform. The control circuit may be configured to (i) detect whether an attention state of a driver is in an attentive state or an inattentive state in response to one or more of the plurality of sensor signals from the vehicle platform and a driver monitoring system, (ii) assess whether the driver is sufficiently attentive by monitoring the one or more of the plurality of sensor signals from the vehicle platform and the driver monitoring system, and (iii) maintain an awareness of the driver to the environment of the vehicle by proactively interacting with the driver to determine whether a perception of the driver of the environment of the vehicle corresponds with the environmental information and the sensor-based information received by the interface.