US 11,897,496 B2
Vehicle warning system
Masaki Kato, Kawasaki (JP); Yasuhiro Miura, Owariasahi (JP); Tomohiro Inada, Kariya (JP); and Hitoshi Muraki, Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/888,481.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-141918 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0061424 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G02C 7/04 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02C 7/04 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 20/597 (2022.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0141 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle warning system, comprising:
a determination unit that determines whether a driver of a vehicle is dozing or looking away based on a state of the driver;
a smart contact lens worn on an eyeball of the driver; and
a display control unit that causes the smart contact lens to display a warning when the determination unit determines that the driver is dozing or looking away, wherein
when the vehicle that is executing driver support control at a second predetermined level interrupts the driver support control, the display control unit causes the smart contact lens to display a further warning to notify that the driver support control is interrupted.