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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2013
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Wende Zhang, Troy, MI (US);
Dan Levi, Kyriat Ono, IL;
Debbie E. Nachtegall, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Fernando De la Torre, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Franscisco Vicente, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for determining an Eyes-Off-The-Road (EOTR) condition exists includes capturing image data corresponding to a driver from a monocular camera device. A detection of whether the driver is wearing eye glasses based on the image data using an eye glasses classifier. When it is detected that the driver is wearing eye glasses, a driver face location is detected from the captured image data and it is determined whether the EOTR condition exists based on the driver face location using an EOTR classifier.