US 12,065,152 B2
Drive assist system
Toru Kato, Tokyo (JP); Ryota Nakamura, Tokyo (JP); Tsukasa Mikuni, Tokyo (JP); and Masatoshi Tsuge, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,342.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-058856 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0315017 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/18 (2006.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 50/0098 (2013.01) [A61B 5/18 (2013.01); A61B 5/4815 (2013.01); A61B 5/6893 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0827 (2013.01); B60W 2520/04 (2013.01); B60W 2540/106 (2013.01); B60W 2540/16 (2013.01); B60W 2540/18 (2013.01); B60W 2540/229 (2020.02); B60W 2710/1005 (2013.01); B60W 2710/205 (2013.01); B60W 2720/106 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A drive assist system to be applied to a vehicle, the drive assist system comprising:
an occupant monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a physical state of an occupant of the vehicle to acquire monitoring information of the occupant, wherein the occupant includes a driver of the vehicle;
a determination apparatus configured to determine a traveling state and a stopped state of the vehicle; and
a drive assist control apparatus including one or more processors, and one or more memories having instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to be configured to:
determine that sleep duration of the occupant is less than a predetermined time and quality of sleep of the occupant is lower than a predetermined level on a basis of the monitoring information acquired by the occupant monitoring apparatus; and
in response to (1) determining that the sleep duration of the occupant is less than the predetermined time and the quality of sleep of the occupant is lower than the predetermined level and (2) determining, by the determination apparatus, that the vehicle is in the stopped state, execute a control to secure safe traveling of the vehicle by restricting a driving operation to be performed by the driver.