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US 11,897,496 B2Granted
Vehicle warning system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaki Kato, Yasuhiro Miura, Tomohiro Inada, Hitoshi Muraki
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Abstract
A determination unit that determines whether a driver of a vehicle is dozing or looking away based on a state of the driver, a smart contact lens worn on an eyeball of the driver, and a display control unit that causes the smart contact lens to display a warning when the determination unit determines that the driver is dozing or looking away are provided.
Claims7
A vehicle warning system, comprising:
- a determination unit that determines whether a driver of a vehicle is dozing or looking away based on a state of the driver;
- a smart contact lens worn on an eyeball of the driver;
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- a display control unit that causes the smart contact lens to display a warning when the determination unit determines that the driver is dozing or looking away, wherein
- when the vehicle that is executing driver support control at a second predetermined level interrupts the driver support control, the display control unit causes the smart contact lens to display a further warning to notify that the driver support control is interrupted.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.