Method and system for estimating gaze direction of vehicle drivers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9881221
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14274315

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Methods and systems for continuously monitoring the gaze direction of a driver of a vehicle over time. Video is received, which is captured by a camera associated with, for example, a mobile device within a vehicle, the camera and/or mobile device mounted facing the driver of the vehicle. Frames can then be extracted from the video. A facial region can then be detected, which corresponds to the face of the driver within the extracted frames. Features descriptors can then be computed from the facial region. A gaze classifier derived from the vehicle, the driver, and the camera can then be applied, wherein the gaze classifier receives the feature descriptors as inputs and outputs at least one label corresponding to one or more predefined finite number of gaze classes to identify the gaze direction of the driver of the vehicle.

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  • CONDUENT BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bala, Raja Pittsford, US 184 2660
Bernal, Edgar Webster, US 14 207
Burry, Aaron Ontario, US 12 203
Chuang, David Seattle, US 1 80
Paul, Peter Penfield, US 125 2485

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