Vehicular vision system using smart eye glasses
AssigneeMagna Electronics Inc.
InventorKrishna Koravadi
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Abstract
A vision system for a vehicle includes a control and smart eye glasses worn by a driver of the vehicle. The smart eye glasses include a driver monitoring camera that has a field of view that encompasses at least one eye of the driver when wearing the smart eye glasses. The control includes an image processor that processes image data captured by the driver monitoring camera to determine drowsiness of the driver. Responsive to determination that the driver is drowsy, the control communicates a signal to a portable device in the vehicle and the portable device in the vehicle generates an alert to the driver.
Claims20
A vision system for a vehicle, said vision system comprising:
- smart eye glasses worn by a driver of the vehicle, said smart eye glasses comprising a driver monitoring camera that has a field of view that encompasses at least one eye of the driver when wearing said smart eye glasses;
- a control comprising an image processor that processes image data captured by said driver monitoring camera to determine drowsiness of the driver;
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- wherein, responsive to determination that the driver is drowsy, said control wirelessly communicates a signal to a portable device in the vehicle and the device in the vehicle generates an alert to the driver.
A vision system for a vehicle, said vision system comprising:
- smart eye glasses worn by a driver of the vehicle, said smart eye glasses comprising a driver monitoring camera that has a field of view that encompasses at least one eye of the driver when wearing said smart eye glasses;
- wherein said smart eye glasses comprises a control comprising an image processor that processes image data captured by said driver monitoring camera to determine drowsiness of the driver;
- wherein, responsive to determination that the driver is drowsy, said control communicates a signal to a portable device in the vehicle and the device in the vehicle generates an alert to the driver;
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- wherein the portable device in the vehicle comprises the driver's smart phone.
A vision system for a vehicle, said vision system comprising:
- smart eye glasses worn by a driver of the vehicle, said smart eye glasses comprising a driver monitoring camera that has a field of view that encompasses at least one eye of the driver when wearing said smart eye glasses;
- a control comprising an image processor that processes image data captured by said driver monitoring camera to determine drowsiness of the driver;
- at least one camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the vehicle, wherein the image processor processes image data captured by said at least one camera;
- wherein, responsive to determination that the driver is drowsy, said control communicates a signal to a portable device in the vehicle and the device in the vehicle generates an alert to the driver;
- wherein, responsive to determination that the driver is viewing toward a structure of the vehicle, said smart eye glasses display images derived from image data captured by the at least one exterior viewing camera to display part of the exterior scene at said smart eye glasses such that the driver effectively views through the structure of the vehicle;
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- wherein said smart eye glasses display vehicle status information for viewing by the driver when the driver is wearing said smart eye glasses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.