A driver monitoring apparatus for monitoring a driver sitting in a driver seat in a vehicle provided with an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode includes: an image acquiring portion configured to acquire a driver image captured by a driver image capturing camera; an image storage portion configured to store the driver image acquired by the image acquiring portion; a determination processing portion configured to process the driver image read out from the image storage portion and determine whether or not a steering wheel of the vehicle is being gripped by a hand of the driver, if the autonomous driving mode is to be switched to the manual driving mode; and a signal output portion configured to output a predetermined signal that is based on a result of the determination performed by the determination processing portion.


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    Title :

    DRIVER MONITORING APPARATUS AND DRIVER MONITORING METHOD


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    Publication date :

    2018-11-15


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / G06K Erkennen von Daten , RECOGNITION OF DATA



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