Method and device for estimating a direction of a view of a vehicle occupant, method and device for determining a head movement gain parameter specific for a vehicle occupant, and method and device for estimating the direction of view of a vehicle occupant

A device configured to estimate a direction of view of an occupant of a vehicle, the device configured to:

• ascertain a head fixation position of a head of the vehicle occupant, which terminates a current head movement of the head, using sensor data concerning an angular speed of the current head movement;
• and
• combine the head fixation position and a head movement gain parameter to estimate the direction of view of the vehicle occupant, the head movement gain parameter being a function of a head movement pattern individual for a vehicle occupant during a visual fixing of an object.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, the computer program for estimating a direction of view of an occupant of a vehicle, the computer program, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to perform:

• ascertaining a head fixation position of a head of the vehicle occupant, which terminates a current head movement of the head, using sensor data concerning an angular speed of the current head movement;
• and
• combining the head fixation position and a head movement gain parameter to estimate the direction of view of the vehicle occupant, the head movement gain parameter being a function of a head movement pattern individual for a vehicle occupant during a visual fixing of an object.