Driving ability determining system and driving ability determining method
AssigneePixart Imaging Inc.
InventorsChao-An Chen, Yu-Han Chen, Chin-Hua Hu
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Abstract
A driving ability determining system, provided in a vehicle and for determining a driving ability of a driver of the vehicle, comprising: a HOD (Hand Off Detection) device embedded on a steering wheel, configured to receive at least one user input, wherein the user input is generated by the driver responding to a test instruction; and a processing circuit, configured to determine the driving ability of the driver according to the user input. By using such system, the driving ability may be determined in real time. Also, the driving function of the vehicle may be stopped if the driving ability is determined to be poor. By this way, the safety of driving vehicles may be increased.
Claims18
A driving ability determining system, provided in a vehicle and for determining a driving ability of a driver of the vehicle, comprising:
- a HOD (Hand Off Detection) device embedded on a steering wheel, configured to receive at least one user input responding to at least one instruction provided by a test program, wherein the instruction informs the driver to perform at least one specific user input to the steering wheel;
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- a processing circuit, configured to determine the driving ability according to whether the user input follows the specific user input or not.
A driving ability determining method, for determining a driving ability of a driver of a vehicle, comprising:
- (a) generating at least one test instruction responding to a trigger command by an instruction generating device;
- (b) receiving at least one user input responding to at least one instruction provided by a test program by a HOD device embedded on a steering wheel, wherein the instruction informs the driver to perform at least one specific user input to the steering wheel;
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- (c) determining the driving ability according to whether the user input follows the specific user input or not.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.