MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517084483 A) filed by Netradyne, Inc., San Diego, on Sept. 5, for 'video-based drowsy driving detection on an edge device.'
Inventor(s) include Thornton, Matthew; Zalawadia, Ridham; Laielli, Michael Jason; Hippalgaonkar, Hrishikesh Pradeep; Ma, Xinnan; Avanigadda, Prasanna Kumar; Yedla, Arvind; Annapureddy, Venkata Sreekanta Reddy; Chandran, Nishanth; Verma, Pratik; Udayakumar, Rathnakumar; Nag, Anirban; Jose, Jijo; and Kahn, Adam David.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method for detecting drowsy driving in a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving and processing images from a camera within the vehicle. The processed images result in a sequence of facial images, which are stored in a memoiy buffer. A selection of images from these facial images constitutes a video. The processor then determines a drowsy confidence score based on the video. If the drowsy confidence score crosses a predetermined threshold, an alert is generated."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 16, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/016187.
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