Systems and methods for evaluating driver attentiveness for collision avoidance
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1. An electronic control device for evaluating driver attentiveness in a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having a collision avoidance system, the electronic device comprising:
- an allocation unit that evaluates defined first input data to recognize a driving situation among a plurality of defined driving situations; and
a driver monitoring unit operatively coupled to the allocation unit, the driver monitoring unit evaluating defined second input data to assess a degree of situation-adapted attentiveness based on the recognized driving situation,wherein the degree of situation-adapted attentiveness is expressed as a likelihood with which a driver has introduced the driving situation intentionally, based on the situation-adapted attentiveness adapted to the driving situation in the immediate past,wherein at least one functional unit of the collision avoidance system is controlled by the electronic control device as a function of the assessed degree of situation-adapted attentiveness.
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Abstract
Systems and method for evaluating driver attentiveness are provided. An allocation unit evaluates defined first input data to recognize a specific driving situation among a plurality of defined driving situations. A driver monitoring unit is operatively coupled to the allocation unit and evaluates defined second input data, based on the recognized driving situation, to assess a degree of situation-adapted attentiveness. A functional unit of a collision avoidance system is controlled as a function of the assessed degree of situation-adapted attentiveness.
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1. An electronic control device for evaluating driver attentiveness in a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having a collision avoidance system, the electronic device comprising:
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an allocation unit that evaluates defined first input data to recognize a driving situation among a plurality of defined driving situations; and a driver monitoring unit operatively coupled to the allocation unit, the driver monitoring unit evaluating defined second input data to assess a degree of situation-adapted attentiveness based on the recognized driving situation, wherein the degree of situation-adapted attentiveness is expressed as a likelihood with which a driver has introduced the driving situation intentionally, based on the situation-adapted attentiveness adapted to the driving situation in the immediate past, wherein at least one functional unit of the collision avoidance system is controlled by the electronic control device as a function of the assessed degree of situation-adapted attentiveness. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for evaluating driver attentiveness in a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle having a collision avoidance system, the method comprising the acts of:
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evaluating first input data to recognize a driving situation among a plurality of defined driving situations; evaluating second input data to assess a degree of situation-adapted attentiveness based on the recognized driving situation; and controlling at least one functional unit of the collision avoidance system as a function of the assessed degree of situation-adapted attentiveness, wherein the degree of situation-adapted attentiveness is expressed as a likelihood with which a driver has introduced the driving situation intentionally, based on the situation-adapted attentiveness adapted to the driving situation in the immediate past. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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