An autonomous driving assistance device includes: a determination unit for determining whether or not a driver of a vehicle needs a rest on the basis of detection information of a state of the driver; and a control unit for causing an output device of the vehicle to output a pattern that prompts the driver to sleep through at least one of sight, hearing, or touch during a period in which the vehicle has started moving to a parking area and is parked at the parking area in a case where the determination unit has determined that the driver needs a rest.

The invention is related to a method for driver alertness detection, The method comprises the steps of determining a vanishing point of a vehicle in motion; determining over time, by an eye tracking device, a set of gaze points of the driver of the vehicle; determining a gaze movement from the set of gaze points; and identifying an alertness of the driver, based on a direction of the gaze movement relative to the vanishing point being outward. Further, the invention is related to an eye tracking device for driver alertness detection, an alertness detection system, a computer program, and a computer-readable medium.

A consciousness state determination system comprises a first image-taking section which is mounted on a vehicle and takes images of a driver of the vehicle, an electronic control unit which executes a consciousness state determination process of determining whether the driver is conscious, based on a first image corresponding to the image of the driver taken by the first image-taking section, and a mobile terminal carried by the driver. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether the driver is conscious, based on terminal-side information corresponding to information acquired by the mobile terminal when a predetermined condition that a reliability level of a determination result obtained from the consciousness state determination process is presumably low, becomes satisfied.

A driver monitoring device includes: a processor; and a memory. The memory stores instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the driver monitoring device to perform operations including: detecting an unbalanced posture of a driver based on an image of a driver’s seat; determining whether the unbalanced posture is a habitual unbalanced posture of the driver; calculating an opening degree of at least one eye of the driver based on the image in a case in which it is determined that the unbalanced posture is other than the habitual unbalanced posture; determining whether it is a timing to give a notification in a case in which the vehicle is traveling and the opening degree is equal to or larger than a first threshold; and giving the notification to the driver in a case in which it is determined that it is the timing to give the notification.

Vehicle trajectory data is obtained. A variance of the trajectory data is recursively determined. A speed-dependent weighting function is computed to obtain a speed-dependent weight. An anomaly index is determined based at least on part on application of the speed dependent weight to the recursively determined variance.

An embodiment of the invention provides a method to control a mechanical system based on the cognitive state of a user, where a first action is performed at an input device that is associated with the user. The cognitive state of the user is detected at the input device; and, a change to the first action is determined based on the cognitive state of the user. A controlled action is performed based on the recommended change. A system can include an input device associated with user, where a first action is performed at the input device. A processor connected to the input device detects the cognitive state of the user at the input device and determines a change to the first action based on the cognitive state of the user. A controller connected to the processor performs a controlled action based on the recommended change.

Electronic devices and methods are provided in which a pressure applied, by a driver, to a seat of a moving object driven by the driver is sensed. A state of the driver is determined based on frequency characteristics with respect to a change in the pressure sensed by the sensor.

An acquisition unit acquires at least one of first information and second information. A notification unit provides warning information to the driver, the warning information being generated based on at least one of the first information and the second information acquired and indicating a possibility of an increase in an insurance premium of an insurance applied to the driver. An reception unit receives acceptance of the provided warning information from the driver. A processor determines to transmit the acceptance by the driver of the possibility of an increase in the insurance premium to an insurance company server when the acceptance is received and determines to transmit at least one of the first information and the second information to the insurance company server when acceptance is not received.

A traveling control apparatus comprises: a control unit configured to control traveling of a vehicle to switch between first traveling control that does not need monitoring by a driver and second traveling control that needs monitoring by the driver; and a recognition unit configured to recognize a state of the driver, wherein in a case in which traveling of the vehicle by the first traveling control is impossible, in accordance with a result of recognition by the recognition unit, the control unit performs switching from the first traveling control to the second traveling control, or executes third traveling control of making a safety margin larger than in the first traveling control without switching from the first traveling control to the second traveling control.

A vehicle may include a steering angle sensor; and a controller configured to be electrically connected to the steering angle sensor. The controller may be configured to identify a change amount in a steering angular speed of the vehicle according to an output of the steering angle sensor, and to identify careless driving of a driver of the vehicle according to a first maximum change amount in which the steering angular speed changes in a first direction and a second maximum change amount in which the steering angular speed changes in a second direction.