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In order to cut down on distractions — the Precept does feature a 15-inch dashboard-mounted touchscreen, as well as a 12.5-inch driver display — Polestar says it will use “advanced eye-tracking and proximity sensors to deliver information in a controlled manner.” In other words, the car’s displays will brighten and change what they display when users look at them, or when users reach out to the touchscreen. Polestar also says it will “warn users if they are spending too much time looking at the screen rather than the road ahead.”

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21151592/polestar-precept-concept-electric-car-2020-geneva-motor-show

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A telling quote about another competitor - just 3 years experience in vehicles; from the fleet owner link:

Tel Aviv-based computer vision company tracking human movement called Eyesight Technologies sensed driver monitoring was a growing trend and about three years ago started to focus more intently on the automotive sector.

Hi Terry,
Having reviewed Jungo's partner list, I am not concerned. If I was a tier 1, I wouldn't be looking for these guys to back me up, their product is just an SDK, with local partners who either doubt have a website or it is not professional. The interesting clue is the ToF sensor that they have partnered with is VGA resolution, yet they imply they can cover a 3 row vehicle from the drivers mirror position. We'll I can state from experience, you can't see much of anything happening in the third row especially if it is small kids, yet the same sensor will also need to have a very wide range to monitor the driver and front passenger too 120 degrees+ probably more, like a fish eye if you want to see my hands on the wheel. I wonder what the spatial resolution is like? Is it 640 x 480 pinpricks, or do these distance measurements reflect the whole area like the pixels in a camera picture?

Jazz, no the mirror combination in the Honda patent is for a visible light projected heads up display. The mirrors are required to allow the projected image to be projected from close to the windscreen in what is a combined space. Whereas the Joyson one is an IR reflector to selectively alter the angle of just IR not the glare of the sun onto the camera

JC, I like this one and it is a good identifier for Joyson system. The patent has the Camera attached flat in the printed circuit board which lies parallel to the steering wheel rod. So the camera is pointing at the sky. But there is an angled reflector that directs the field of view towards the driver. The clever bit is the reflector is not a mirror, it only reflects a narrow band of infra red. So the sun over the drivers shoulder has minimal effect. That will be why the original version never made it to GMs other cars, they were waiting for this fix. It is also cheap to make as it is a single flat board. Compare this to the dark windows in the dashboard next to the speedo that smart eye used in BMW, it was OK at the time, but prevents the use of today's flat panels. Who wants a notch in their flat panel display! Or the steering wheel mount that you see in the mustang mach- E, here the camera window is facing the driver so the camera needs a more expensive mounting (GM must have saved 5p more than Ford!)

JC, another great find

Seems strange that they only mention having a camera on the steering wheel cover rather than a multitude of options

Could be a lane wobble detector, or a steering and brake monitoring that sees if the usage pattern changes. Doesn't need to be driver facing camera system

Of course, you need head tracking to make sure the correct pattern is generated for just you to hear.

Hi Jazz,

I have not read the patent yet, but perhaps I can try to explain the audio part.

Traditionally speakers would move a paper cone backwards and forwards to create the necessary sound waves in the air, they would then go in all directions so would be heard by everyone.

It is easier to think of this next bit backwards. Imagine the sound waves leaving your head like the waves on a pond after dropping a stone in. Now imagine the sound waves reaching a straight bit of the edge of a pond. If you could freeze the pond instantly you would see peaks and troughs. But the pattern is important they will be broad in the centre, but narrow further out.

If you make a speaker that doesn't push or pull everywhere at one, but pushes where the peaks are and pulls where the troughs are you can work magic. You can make a wave that will travel like waves towards the centre just to where your head is (some will go elsewhere but it will cancel itself out) . The loud sound is steered to where your head is, anyone closer will only hear a fraction of what you get.
Magic!

JC it must be Friday,

it is going to take more than a week to get through all of these

I did presume that this mythical Tier 1 would be planning on building for more than one car. But of course you are correct SEYE need to package 2 cameras in the car to achieve what we can do with one.

It is as though they don't have the IP to do it our way (which is cheaper in the Bill of Materials)

Lewbo,
If only someone like Mike Lenne could tell us the answer!

Lewbo,
If only someone like Mike Lenne could tell us the answer!

Glandore, you may have a point, but like most wars, it is important to have plenty of bullets to trade with. If you run out of IP ammunition you have lost, in the end it may be a stalemate with several bidders, but you still have the market that you won.

In most cases it is the Tier 1s that we will be trading with, they will build the systems that are required. If that uses SEYE cameras and algos for eye tracking plus Eyeris for emotion and Nuance for speech but they want to identify outside objects and calibrate their cameras, they may pay us for some IP. That preserves a mixed bag of suppliers & avoids a monopoly.

JC, there are many reasons why this patent is so valuable. As Red says, it is building on existing parents that are established.

It is actually understandable (honest). I am currently entombed in my car waiting for my youngest. But you can do this at home with a printed copy. First cross out any paragraph that seems to describe a computer or similar obvious thing. Read what is left, skimming as fast as you can, mark the interesting paragraphs. Draw some pictures then read the marked paragraphs again.

Ok, I glance at my 3 mirrors and the speedo. They are fairly small areas. Gaze tracking from my head to those "known" points of the car determines where my head is in the car "space" that tells me where the camera is too, but that is also a "known". Camera can also see the seatbelt hole, the pillar, and the corner of the door to calibrate itself.

Now outside, i look at traffic signs, road markings, kerbs on corners, and the center of the lane ahead. The forwards looking camera identifies prominent features and overlays my glance map over its picture, stretching a rectangle on one edge and squashing the other, moving up and down 'till they match. Add some more maths and you can automatically translate between camera images and glances, and you can now identify where the camera is and is pointing relative to the car. Camera calibrated.

Patented in US, China, Japan, Europe and the World. The scope is suitably all encompassing. So it can help adjust your seat, and work out your body posture. Comfort and airbag safety. It can cover AR and did you see the child running out where inside gaze detection links to outside object recognition.

It may be feasible to work around this patent, but it is often more practical to license it, as the extra cost of calibration at install, service and repair, plus the time, training and installation issues are not worth it

Maps, there is always a "risk" of a company share buy back or other form of share cancellation . That might accidentally trigger a takeover by pushing LO's holding over 20%

Bauch, Dr7,

I am not worried, if we were delivering a tyre or an engine it would be to an agreed specification. It is then up to GM to use that standard part in as many cars as it can.

In our case, the camera and chip are packaged by a tier 1 (or another tier 2 for the tier 1) , in this case inside a steering column, it is up to them to provide the steering columns in X colours to fit in Y vehicles, actual production start dates and trials will be managed and agreed call of rates will all be in contracts.
Since we don't actually make any of these parts we don't need to know the specifics.

As long as the supply chain is working as planned, each entity only knows what it needs to know. We will know when the production starts, but only when the steering components get installed in a car will we be paid.

PP - thanks for the write up

we have designed the tech to an agreed specification

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/amp30341053/self-driving-technology-comparison/?__twitter_impression=true

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