METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DROWSY DRIVING

• Main Authors: CHO HONG KI, LEE SEUNG YOUL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 11.08.2023
• Subjects: ALARM SYSTEMS; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

Presented is a drowsy driving sensing method and an apparatus thereof. The drowsy driving sensing apparatus comprises: a filming unit which acquires a face video by filming a face of a driver; a storing unit which stores the face video acquired by the filming unit; a controlling unit which detects both eyes in the face video acquired by the filming unit, classifies a status of the both eyes into an open status, a closed status, or a difficult-to-identify status, and determines whether the driver is drowsy according to the classified status of the both eyes; and an outputting unit which outputs a warning signal to the driver based on drowsy driving determined by the controlling unit. An objective of the present invention is to present the drowsy driving sensing method, which more accurately detects the both eyes of the driver, and the apparatus thereof. 졸음운전감지 방법 및 장치를 제시하며, 졸음운전감지 방법 및 장치는 운전자의 얼굴을 촬영하여 얼굴영상을 획득하는 촬영부, 촬영부에 의해 획득한 얼굴영상을 저장하는 저장부, 촬영부에 의해 획득된 얼굴영상에서 양안을 검출하여 양안의 상태를 각각 뜬 상태, 감은 상태, 식별하기 어려운 상태 중 하나로 분류하고, 분류된 양안의 상태에 따라 졸음운전 여부를 판별하는 제어부 및 제어부가 판별한 졸음운전 여부에 따라 경고 신호를 운전자에게 출력하는 출력부를 포함한다.