US 11,873,007 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
Masahiro Tamori, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/283,025
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/042492
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 6, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/100585, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-212728 (JP), filed on Nov. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0339770 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 60/0015 (2020.02) [B60W 30/143 (2013.01); B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G08G 1/16 (2013.01); B60W 2540/225 (2020.02); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus configured to control operations of a vehicle and comprising:
circuitry configured to:
detect one or more objects that are around the vehicle or that are around a moving path of the vehicle and generate corresponding vehicle peripheral information;
monitor a position of a pupil of a driver of the vehicle in order to detect a line-of-sight direction of the driver,
based on the vehicle peripheral information, determine that the detected line-of-sight direction does not correspond to a predetermined safe line-of-sight direction for a current driving state of the vehicle; and
change the current driving state of the vehicle to a predetermined safe driving state,
wherein the current driving state and the predetermined safe line-of-sight direction is one of a set of driving states and safe line-of-sight directions, the set of driving states and safe line-of-sight directions consisting of:
traveling straight on a road and a forward looking line-of-sight,
presence of a pedestrian or an oncoming vehicle and a line-of-sight directed to the pedestrian or the oncoming vehicle,
a lane change of the vehicle and a line-of-sight direction corresponding to the lane change, and
a right or left change of direction of the vehicle and a line-of-sight direction corresponding to the right or left change of direction, and
wherein predetermined safe driving state is each of a set of predetermined safe driving states that comprises:
an automatic lane change to a safest lane in a plurality of lanes of a currently traveling road that is determined by a risk evaluation calculation performed by the circuitry, and
an automatic reduction of speed of the vehicle.