Occupant monitoring device for vehicle
AssigneeSubaru Corporation
InventorsRyota Nakamura, Masayuki Marubashi, Keita Onishi
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Abstract
An occupant monitoring device which is provided in a vehicle, and monitors one or more occupants riding in the vehicle. The occupant monitoring device includes: a recognizer that recognizes one or more occupants riding in the vehicle; a monitor that monitors the one or more occupants riding in the vehicle according to a result of recognition of the one or more occupants by the recognizer; a start controller that individually starts or stops the recognizer and the monitor. The start controller starts the recognizer in a stopped state of the monitor.
Claims13
An occupant monitoring device for a vehicle, the occupant monitoring device being mountable in the vehicle and configured to monitor one or more occupants riding in the vehicle, the occupant monitoring device comprising:
- a recognizer configured to recognize the one or more occupants riding in the vehicle;
- a monitor configured to monitor the one or more occupants riding in the vehicle according to a result of recognition of the one or more occupants by the recognizer;
- a start controller configured to individually start or stop the recognizer and the monitor,
- wherein the start controller starts the recognizer with the monitor in a stopped state;
- a buffer configured to record setting data corresponding to the one or more occupants recognized by the recognizer and being to be utilized by the monitor;
- and
- a setting updater configured to update the buffer according to a result of the recognition of the one or more occupants by the recognizer, wherein
- when in a start state of the monitor, the setting updater updates the buffer on a basis of a latest result of the recognition of the one or more occupants by the recognizer, and
- in a turn-off state of the monitor, the setting updater does not update the buffer.
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