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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Inventor:
Fumiya Nagai, Kariya, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00845 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); G06K 9/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/00255 (2013.01); G06K 9/00604 (2013.01); G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01);
Abstract
A driver check apparatus includes: a face image acquisition portion that obtains a face image of a driver in a vehicle; an extraction portion that extracts a face orientation and/or a sight direction of the driver, based on the face image obtained by the face image acquisition portion while the vehicle is stopped; and a first determination portion that determines whether the face orientation and/or the sight direction extracted by the extraction portion is within a predetermined visual recognition range in which a passenger in the vehicle is visually recognized.