Driver monitoring device, method thereof and recording medium

Abstract

The invention provides a driver monitoring device, a method thereof, and a recording medium. The driver monitoring device can monitor which direction a driver of a vehicle is inclined. Provided is a driver monitoring device (10), a detection part (14), A driver's attention direction is detected on the basis of monitoring data output from a driver monitoring sensor (21). A monitoring unit (15) repeatedly calculates deviations sigma such as standard deviations in the direction of attention during the deviation calculation period p at intervals of the deviation calculation time s, and determinesthe direction of attention and the degree of attention of the driver on the basis of the calculated deviations sigma.

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technical field [0001] Embodiments of the present invention relate to, for example, a driver monitoring device for monitoring a driver of a vehicle, a method thereof, and a recording medium. Background technique [0002] In recent years, vehicles have been increasingly equipped with various devices for assisting drivers when vehicles such as passenger cars are running. As one of them, there is known a side-view determination device that determines whether the driver of the vehicle is in an improper driving state, for example, whether the driver is looking sideways, and issues a warning if it is in the side-view state. In such a side-looking determination device, it is determined where the driver is looking by detecting the direction of the driver's face or the direction of sight, thereby determining whether the driver is looking sideways. [0003] However, it is difficult to perform accurate side-view determination only from the direction of the driver's face or the directi...

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[0003] However, it is difficult to make accurate side-view determination

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