US 12,311,909 B2
Apparatus and method for steering adjustment
Ryusuke Kuroda, Tokyo-to (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/343,004.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-131888 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0059269 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 10/20 (2006.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 50/12 (2012.01); B60W 50/16 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B62D 6/00 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06V 40/18 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 10/20 (2013.01) [B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 50/087 (2013.01); B60W 50/12 (2013.01); B60W 50/16 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 60/0055 (2020.02); B62D 6/00 (2013.01); B62D 15/025 (2013.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 20/597 (2022.01); G06V 40/161 (2022.01); G06V 40/18 (2022.01); B60W 2050/0073 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2540/18 (2013.01); B60W 2540/225 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/801 (2020.02)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for steering adjustment comprising a processor configured to:
detect a gaze direction of a driver of a vehicle from a facial image in which a face of the driver is represented, and
during autonomous driving in which steering of the vehicle is autonomously controlled, when an operation by the driver on a steering wheel accepting operations by the driver for designating a steering direction and a steering amount of the vehicle is detected, determine whether the gaze direction of the driver corresponds to the steering direction in the operation of the driver and adjust a reaction force with respect to the operation on the steering wheel smaller when the gaze direction corresponds to the steering direction than when the gaze direction does not correspond to the steering direction.