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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2009
Applicant:
Atsushi Kawakubo, Toyota, JP;
Inventor:
Atsushi Kawakubo, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging mechanism captures an image of a face of a driver of a vehicle. A first image processor performs image processing on a wide portion of the face of the driver in a first image using a first image captured by the imaging mechanism. A second image processor performs image processing on a part of the face of the driver in a second image captured by the imaging mechanism at a higher exposure than the exposure of the first image, using the second image.