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US 8,264,531 B2Granted
Driver's state monitoring system using a camera mounted on steering wheel
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsHo Choul Jung, Byoung Joon Lee
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Abstract
The status of a driver is monitored by facial images captured by a camera mounted on the steering wheel of a vehicle. The captured image is tilt corrected by a steering angle. The status of the driver can be monitored efficiently.
Claims10
A system for monitoring the status of a driver of a vehicle, comprising:
- an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the face of a driver using a camera mounted on the steering wheel of the vehicle;
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- a control unit for correcting a tilt of the captured image received from the image capturing unit by rotating the captured image by a steering angle to provide a corrected image, and extracting characteristic parts of the face of the driver from the corrected image, thus determining the status of the driver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.