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INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

An information processing device (100, 200, 400, 500, 600, 700) comprises: a positioning information acquisition unit (101) that acquires positioning information on a vehicle; a moving body information acquisition unit (102) that acquires moving body information indicating the relative position of the vehicle and a moving body around the vehicle; a concentration degree information acquisition unit (104) that acquires concentration degree information indicating the driving concentration degree of a driver who drives the vehicle during traveling; and an association information generation unit (107) that generates concentration degree association information in which the positioning information acquired by the positioning information acquisition unit (101), the moving body information acquired by the moving body information acquisition unit (102), and the concentration degree information acquired by the concentration degree information acquisition unit (104) are associated with one another.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=WO&NR=2025248622A1&KC=A1&FT=D&ND=3&date=20251204&DB=&locale=en_EP

ALERTNESS DETECTION DEVICE, DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND ALERTNESS DETECTION METHOD

An alertness detection device according to the present invention includes an alertness acquisition unit (131) that acquires alertness of a driver calculated from a facial image including a face of the driver of a vehicle, a viewing direction acquisition unit (132) that acquires a viewing direction including a line-of-sight direction or a facial direction of the driver calculated from the facial image, a vicinity information acquisition unit (133) that acquires vicinity information indicating a situation in a vicinity from a vicinity detection device that detects the situation in the vicinity of the vehicle, an attention level estimation unit (134) that estimates an attention level of the driver in the situation in the vicinity on the basis of the viewing direction that is acquired and the vicinity information that is acquired, and a correction unit (135) that calculates a corrected alertness by correcting the alertness that is acquired using the attention level that is estimated, and outputs the corrected alertness that is calculated.

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Colin Barnden

2025 is two-thirds gone, but already marks a period of profound change for the driver monitoring systems market. Cipia's #automotive #DMS assets were sold to HARMAN International in June, while emotion3D was acquired by indie.inc early August. Now news has broken that Anand Srivatsa is to step down as CEO at Tobii. This comes three months after the CFO left and just 18 months after the Tobii acquisition of DTSAutosense. The exact reasons for change in the Tobii C-suite in 2025 are unclear, but alongside Cipia and emotion3D, one conclusion stands out: The funding window for DMS algorithm developers has closed and the leaders and #laggards in the sector are now clearly visible. Investors no longer take PR promises; they want delivery, cash profits and a ROI.

The news flood is related to timing in the European DMS market. Mandatory distracted driver warning #ADDW for #GSR compliance equates to an incoming 100 percent fitment for DMS in light vehicles sold in Europe. Meanwhile the Euro NCAP - For Safer Cars, Vans & Trucks 2026 test protocols force OEMs to shun cheap and poorly performing DMS for more sophisticated systems which will clearly score above the rising minimum threshold for a 5-star rating. The combination of these two factors both accelerates uptake of DMS in Europe over the next twelve months, and directs OEMs to only a handful of automotive DMS algorithm developers (Tier 2 suppliers) with a suitable feature set and advanced technology roadmap that meets the necessary performance requirements.

Starting January, OEMs simply cannot risk losing the coveted 5-star NCAP rating just to save a couple bucks per vehicle, meaning DMS suppliers with an advanced #technology roadmap and proven delivery competency will take the vast majority of the market. For everyone else, the music has stopped.

There is a high likelihood Tobii will fall into the arms of an acquirer before the end of the year, but the real fireworks will come when focus turns instead to the independent Tier 2 leaders: Two DMS suppliers; two $B SoC vendors; one $T SoC vendor. Exciting.

HUMAN ERROR PREDICTION, DETECTION, AND ALERTING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

A system may include at least one sensor and at least one processor configured to, based at least on stress data, at least one of (i) identify at least one occurrence of at least one potential for at least one human error or (ii) predict the at least one occurrence of the at least one potential for the at least one human error; and upon an identification and/or a prediction, output at least one instruction to cause (a) a modification to a human machine interface (HMI) device that interfaces with a user, (b) a modification to an amount of automated digital assistance provided to the user, (c) a modification of content presented to the user, (d) an alert to the user, and/or (e) a presentation of a solution to increase comprehension by the user.

[0022] Each sensor 110 may be any suitable sensor, such as a heart rate sensor, cognitive workload sensor (e.g. an electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor of a cognitive assessment toolset (CATS)), a blood oxygen sensor (e.g., an SpO2 sensor), an eye tracking sensor (e.g., a camera for tracking eye movement, gaze (e.g., a location of eye focus), a blink rate, and/or a pupil size), a sleep monitor, a communication system (e.g. a radio) output (e.g., for detecting when a communication message was received at the site 102 and/or the vehicle 116). Each sensor 110 may be configured to output sensor data.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=2025246093A1&KC=A1&FT=D&ND=3&date=20250731&DB=&locale=en_EP

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20250246093.pdf

Colin Barnden

The first analysis of the driver monitoring systems strategy for Stellantis presented in July concluded it was using two different algorithm vendors. Based on the illumination strategies seen, the assumption was the suppliers were Seeing Machines and Smart Eye.

Revisions to the conclusions based on additional research now point to the DMS developers shown here being Seeing Machines on the left and Asaphus Vision on the right. Seeing Machines acquired Asaphus from Valeo in July 2024 and Valeo is assumed to be the tier 1 supplier of both systems shown.

No visual evidence of Smart Eye DMS in any Stellantis model at start of production has so far been found, but this may change in the coming quarter as every OEM races to bring models to production featuring DMS ready for the coming changes in 2026.

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GAZE TRACKING AND OBJECT DETECTION IN ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS

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https://www.freepatentsonline.com/WO2025146659A1.pdf

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OCCUPANT MONITORING DEVICE, OCCUPANT MONITORING METHOD, AND MEDIUM

An occupant monitoring device includes processing circuitry configured to: acquire a captured image in which an inside of a vehicle is captured by an imaging device provided in a movable component in the vehicle; perform sensing that is at least one of state determination of an occupant or personal authentication of the occupant by image processing of the captured image; estimate whether or not there is a change in a position of the imaging device; perform calibration for the image processing; and not perform the sensing and perform the calibration when the-processing circuitry estimates that there is a change in the position of the imaging device.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?II=18&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20250605&CC=US&NR=2025182330A1&KC=A1

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20250182330.pdf

GAZE-TRACKED RADAR CONTROL SYSTEM

A system and method for determining a position of viewed object is disclosed. The system includes a head/eye tracker configured to sense at least one gaze target in an environment corresponding to a gaze of an eye or head of a first operator and at least one remote object sensor configured to sense an object corresponding to the gaze target. The system further includes at least one controller in communication with the head/eye tracker and the remote object sensor configured to receive gaze target data, transmit commands to the remote object sensor to steer transmission beams toward the viewed object based on the gaze target data, wherein a reflection of the steered transmission beams from the object is received by a receiver, receive reflection data from the receiver, generate object position data based on the reflection data, and transmit the object position data.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?II=0&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20250605&CC=US&NR=2025180724A1&KC=A1

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20250180724.pdf

THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) OBJECT DETECTION BASED ON MULTIPLE TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) VIEWS CORRESPONDING TO DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing 3D object detection. Such techniques may include obtaining a first set of features based on a first 2D view; obtaining a second set of features based on a second 2D view, obtaining a third set of features based on a third 2D view, obtaining a fourth set of features based on a fourth 2D view, wherein the first 2D view and the second 2D view are based on input from a first input sensor and the third 2D view and the fourth 2D view are based on input from a second input sensor. The techniques may also include performing cross-attention between the first set of features and the second set of features and between the third set of features and the fourth set of features; and performing 3D object detection.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?II=9&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20250522&CC=US&NR=2025166395A1&KC=A1

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20250166395.pdf

VEHICLE DRIVER IMPAIRMENT DETECTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD

A system for detecting an impairment of an operator of a vehicle includes an alcohol sensor, a camera, a start control, and a controller in electrical communication with the alcohol sensor, the camera, and the start control, the controller including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions such that the processor is programmed to: determine that alcohol is detected using the alcohol sensor, disable the start control based on the detection of alcohol, perform a gaze nystagmus assessment of the operator using the camera, determine if the operator is impaired based on the gaze nystagmus assessment, and enable the start control when the operator is not impaired.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=2025121830A1&KC=A1&FT=D&ND=3&date=20250417&DB=&locale=en_EP

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20250121830.pdf

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SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC TELEOPERATION INTENTION ESTIMATION

A system and method for robotic teleoperation enable a teleoperated robotic element to perform a sequence of actions based on intention estimation, eliminating the need for continuous human control. The system includes a robotic teleoperation input that receives motion inputs and gaze data from a human operator performing a robotic teleoperation task. A robotic teleoperation feature extractor analyzes and processes the motion inputs and the gaze data into sequential input data. A multi-window model assigns hierarchical prediction windows to the input data, generating windowed sequential data. A hierarchical neural network processes the windowed sequential data to determine low-level action intentions and high-level task intentions, and generates an intention estimation based on the low-level action intentions and the high-level task intentions. A hierarchical dependency model incorporates hierarchical dependent loss to refine the intention estimation.

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20250083325.pdf

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?II=0&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20250313&CC=US&NR=2025083325A1&KC=A1

VEHICULAR DRIVER MONITORING SYSTEM WITH DISPLAY CONTROL

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20250074311.pdf

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?II=0&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20250306&CC=US&NR=2025074311A1&KC=A1