US 12,134,358 B2
Vehicular driver monitoring system
Michael J. Baur, Kentwood, MI (US)
Assigned to Magna Mirrors of America, Inc., Holland, MI (US)
Filed by Magna Mirrors of America, Inc., Holland, MI (US)
Filed on May 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/315,607.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/364,739, filed on May 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0365074 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 11/04 (2006.01); B60R 1/04 (2006.01); B60R 1/12 (2006.01); B60R 1/29 (2022.01); B60R 1/30 (2022.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 11/04 (2013.01) [B60R 1/04 (2013.01); B60R 1/12 (2013.01); B60R 1/29 (2022.01); B60R 1/30 (2022.01); G06V 20/597 (2022.01); B60R 2001/1253 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0033 (2013.01); B60R 2011/008 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicular driver monitoring system, the vehicular driver monitoring system comprising:
an interior rearview mirror assembly comprising a mirror head adjustable about a mounting structure, the mounting structure configured to attach at an interior portion of a cabin of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular driver monitoring system, wherein the mirror head accommodates a mirror reflective element;
wherein, with the mounting structure attached at the interior portion of the vehicle, the mirror head is adjustable by a driver of the vehicle relative to the mounting structure to adjust a rearward view provided by the mirror reflective element to the driver of the vehicle;
a driver monitoring camera accommodated by the mirror head behind the mirror reflective element, wherein the driver monitoring camera views through the mirror reflective element;
wherein, with the mounting structure attached at the interior portion of the vehicle, and with the mirror head adjusted by the driver of the vehicle relative to the mounting structure to provide the rearward view to the driver of the vehicle, a normal vector extending perpendicular to a planar front surface of the mirror reflective element is angled toward a driver side of the cabin of the vehicle; and
wherein, with the mounting structure attached at the interior portion of the vehicle, and with the normal vector angled toward the driver side of the cabin of the vehicle, and responsive to determination that a passenger is present at a passenger side of the cabin of the vehicle, a principal viewing axis of the driver monitoring camera is angled more toward a centerline axis of the vehicle than the normal vector of the mirror reflective element so the driver monitoring camera views at least a portion of the driver side of the cabin of the vehicle and at least a portion of the passenger side of the cabin of the vehicle.