US 12,423,998 B2
Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining driver's behavior
Taku Mitsumori, Kariya (JP); Yuki Horiuchi, Tokyo-to (JP); Masahiro Ishihara, Tokyo-to (JP); Yuji Yamanishi, Tokyo-to (JP); and Yuki Takeda, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and AISIN CORPORATION, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and AISIN CORPORATION, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/145,966.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-213389 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0206658 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC G06V 20/597 (2022.01) [G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for determining a driver's behavior, comprising:
a processor configured to:
detect a looking direction of a driver of a vehicle, based on an image obtained by a camera provided to capture the interior of the vehicle,
calculate an angle formed between the looking direction and a normal direction of an operation screen of a portable device in the vehicle, the normal direction being indicated by information received from the portable device via a communication device capable of communicating with the portable device, and
determine that the driver is operating the portable device when the angle is within a predetermined angle range.