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7639148 |
Method and arrangement for controlling vehicular subsystems based on interpreted driver activity
Method and arrangement for controlling a subsystem of a vehicle dependent upon a sensed level of driver inattentiveness to vehicle driving tasks. A variable characteristic is measured, on a...
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7639149 |
Automatic lighting device and method for controlling light
An automatic lighting device includes an illuminance detector for detecting an external illuminance around a vehicle, a light controller for turning on/off a vehicular light, a driver's...
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7630804 |
Occupant information detection system, occupant restraint system, and vehicle
A technology is provided which is effective for precisely detecting information about a vehicle occupant in a vehicle seat. In one form, an occupant restraint system to be installed in a vehicle is...
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7629890 |
System and methods for intelligent medical vigilance with bed exit detection
An intelligent medical vigilance system that observes and analyzes, and, only in the event of a clinically significant negative condition, notifies and reports the event to the care staff utilizing...
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7616125 |
Alertness monitor
An alertness monitoring system uses reflectance measurement of infrared light pulses to monitor eye movement of a vehicle or machine operator. The data is used to measure eye and eyelid movement...
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7616123 |
Apparatus and method for noninvasively monitoring for the presence of alcohol or substances of abuse in controlled environments
The present invention relates generally to non-invasive methods and apparatuses for determining analyte properties of a subject and identity characteristics of a subject. Embodiments of the present...
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7609168 |
Method for detecting characteristic movements of a vehicle driver for the purpose of diagnosing a lowering of vigilance by said driver
A method for detecting characteristic movements of a vehicle driver for diagnosing a lowering of vigilance by the driver. In a preliminary phase, the surface of the seat base and of the backrest of...
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7605694 |
Steering wheel assembly for a motor vehicle
A steering wheel assembly for a motor vehicle is provided. The assembly includes a steering wheel, a steering wheel rim of the steering wheel at least partially rotating about a steering axis about...
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7603886 |
Breath alcohol-measuring device with piezo drive
A breath alcohol-measuring device for breathing gas sampling has a mouthpiece ( 2 ), for receiving the exhaled breathing air ( 1 ) of a test subject, provided with a first flow diaphragm ( 3 ). A...
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7602307 |
Portable modular detection system
Disclosed herein are portable and modular detection devices and systems for detecting electromagnetic radiation, such as fluorescence, from an analyte which comprises at least one optical element...
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7592920 |
Systems and methods for evaluating driver attentiveness for collision avoidance
Systems and method for evaluating driver attentiveness are provided. An allocation unit evaluates defined first input data to recognize a specific driving situation among a plurality of defined...
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7576642 |
Motor-vehicle seat belt with integrated sensors
A safety belt has an inner face turned toward the body of a user and an outer face turned away from the user. A plurality of sensor are mounted on the outer face, and the inner face is devoid of...
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7570172 |
Key for vehicle and drunken driving preventing device
The object of the invention is to provide a vehicle key capable of preventing the drunken driving. The vehicle key comprises a key portion with the forward end portion thereof insertable into the...
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7561054 |
System and method for displaying a driving profile
The invention provides a system for analyzing and evaluating the performance and behavior of a driver of a vehicle, and for displaying the results of the analysis and evaluation. A vehicle sensor...
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7557696 |
System and process to record inspection compliance data
An accessory ( 502 ) removably attached to a portable computing device ( 504 ) and handheld, portable readers ( 578, 141, 143, and 632 ) are used to generate and store data that indicate an...
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7551093 |
Method and device for warning a driver
A method and a device for warning a driver, the magnitude of the generated warning signal being a function of the probability of the driver inattentiveness.
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7551987 |
Illuminating apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and monitoring apparatus, for vehicle driver
A driver illuminating apparatus adapted for use in a vehicle includes a light emitting element mounted within a rear field of vision of a driver of the vehicle through a rear-view mirror, for...
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7532964 |
Driver seat system and awakening device
There are provided a monitor for monitoring a human condition of a driver, and an awakening device for awakening a driver, which starts operation when received a predictive signal for fall-asleep...
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7532925 |
Apparatus and method of evaluating degree of work comfort
An apparatus and method for evaluating the degree of work comfort of a user is disclosed. A pair of sensors detect myoelectric potentials of a pair of bilaterally symmetrical muscles. A waveform...
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7528730 |
Active lane assistant
In a method for monitoring the condition of a vehicle driver, the markings ( 3 ) of the lane in which the vehicle is moving are detected and a direction of travel which the vehicle has to follow in...
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7528731 |
System and method for mitigating drive distraction and/or drowsiness by illuminated windshield wiper
A system for mitigating driver distraction and/or drowsiness for a vehicle having a steering wheel and windshield comprises an arm that is adapted for attachment to the vehicle so that the arm is...
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7525449 |
Status light for switch on boat steering wheel
According to a first broad aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method and system for indicating a status of a subsystem controlled by a switch provided on a steering wheel of a...
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7526333 |
Sound reproduction system and method based on physical and mental states of a drive
One of the objects of the present invention is to provide an system which can detects degradation in a driving mental state of a driver, that is, sleepiness, fatigue, fret, and so on during driving...
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7523802 |
Safe-driving promotion system and safe-driving promotion device
An object of the present invention is to provide a safe-driving promotion system for obliging a driver to wear a seat belt and effectively preventing drunk driving and/or drug driving. The...
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7522034 |
Gear availability and synchronization indicator system with selectively maskable display
A gear availability indicator for multi-gear transmissions of motor vehicles capable of generating output signals for operation of a display, including a display having at least: a first section...
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7515056 |
Method and apparatus for preventing collisions of vehicles
In a method for preventing collisions of vehicles, first the surroundings of a vehicle 2 and motion parameters of the vehicle 2 are detected by means of sensors 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 . From...
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7496457 |
Load body state judging device, vehicle seat and computer program
A load body state is judged from time series data of an emphasis displacement inclination obtained by collecting displacement signal data of the load body state using a displacement signal...
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7486987 |
Work comfort evaluating device and work comfort evaluating method
A work comfort evaluating device is a device for evaluating a level of comfort of work by measuring myoelectric potentials of plural muscles when the work is done by antagonistic activities of the...
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7482938 |
Vehicle-occupant's status detecting device
A vehicle-occupant's status detecting device is provided in a vehicle and includes a running-supporting device for supporting driving operations of a vehicle-occupant in the vehicle while the...
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7482937 |
Vision based alert system using portable device with camera
An alert system is activated in response to an event by positioning a portable electronic device, a cellular telephone or PDA for example, such that a camera of the electronic device is orientated...
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7482911 |
Process for the output of information in a vehicle
In the case of a process for the output of information in a vehicle, an information source is used for the output of information which is generated as a function of the driver's behavior. The...
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7479892 |
Detection of unintended lane departures
A method and a system for automatically detecting unintended lane departures of vehicles are described. A lane departure warning system comprises a lane departure recognition unit ( 10 ), an alarm...
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7468673 |
System and method for determining whether a vehicle operator has an impaired cognitive state
A system and a method for determining whether an operator of a vehicle has an impaired cognitive state are provided. The method includes determining an intoxication indication value indicative of...
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7463157 |
Method and system for recognizing driver impairment
A method and system for recognizing and/or detecting impairment and/or inattention of a person, especially a driver of a vehicle, and especially caused by drowsiness, distraction and/or workload,...
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7457694 |
Driving assist system for vehicle
A driving assist system for a vehicle comprises a traveling condition recognition device that detects a state of the vehicle and a traveling environment of the vehicle; a risk potential calculation...
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7451852 |
Vehicle sobriety interlock system with personal identification element
An interlock system for measuring the sobriety of a potential motorized apparatus operator is coupled to the starting mechanism of said motorized apparatus. The interlock system includes a...
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7435227 |
Method and apparatus for generating an indication of a level of vigilance of an individual
A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating an indication of a level of vigilance of an individual using a gaze acquisition unit providing a gaze data stream of at least one eye of the...
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7427924 |
System and method for monitoring driver fatigue
A method and apparatus for monitoring driver fatigue in a vehicle having a steering control includes connecting a sensor with respect to the steering control and a controller with respect to the...
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7423540 |
Method of detecting vehicle-operator state
A method of detecting the state of an operator of a vehicle utilizes a low-cost operator state detection system having no more than one camera located preferably in the vehicle and directed toward...
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7421293 |
Stress-at-work judging apparatus, stress-at-work judging program, and stress-at-work judging method
A stress-at-work judging apparatus, program, and method for judging the stress exerted on the subject at work such as steering of a vehicle by the subject. An myoelectric potential signal of the...
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7413047 |
Alcohol ignition interlock system and method
The alcohol ignition interlock system and method has a transdermal blood alcohol concentration blood alcohol concentration reader in combination with a vehicle ignition interlock circuit that...
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7403124 |
Driving support equipment for vehicles
A driving support equipment for a vehicle is provided, the equipment comprising a frontward information recognition unit for recognizing environs information at the front of the vehicle; a...
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7397382 |
Drowsiness detecting apparatus and method
A drowsiness detecting apparatus has a pulse wave sensor and a determination circuit. The sensor is provided to a steering wheel to detect a pulse wave of a vehicle driver gripping the steering...
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7394393 |
Adaptive driver workload estimator
A method for adaptive driver workload estimation. A subjective assessment of a driver workload is received from a vehicle driver. A stream of sensor input data is collected from one or more sensors...
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7394392 |
Expert system safety screening of equipment operators
Methods and systems using one or more expert systems to screen equipment operators for impairments, such as intoxication, physical impairment, medical impairment, or emotional impairment, to...
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7391304 |
Driving operation support system and method
In deviation prevention support ECU 10 in driving operation support system 1 , an applied torque by steering torque applier 17 is set based on a vehicle speed of a vehicle. The applied torque...
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7388967 |
Vehicle running state judging apparatus
A vehicle running state judging apparatus calculates the edge detecting position of the first pixel group detected by the first gray value detection section, the edge detecting position of the...
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7377352 |
Vehicle ignition interlock systems with mouth alcohol contamination sensor
A vehicle ignition interlock system includes a breath analyzer and a controller operably connected to the breath analyzer and to an ignition system of the vehicle. The breath analyzer detects the...
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7369941 |
Collision detection system and method of estimating target crossing location
A collision detection system and method of estimating a crossing location are provided. The system includes a first sensor for sensing an object in a field of view and sensing a first range defined...
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7364301 |
Vehicular optical system
An optical system for vehicle operating monitoring is disclosed. The optical system includes at least one illuminator that illuminates a profile of a vehicle operator and an imager in optical...
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