Torsten Karnahl

Driver assistance system analyses the drivers condition using eyelid, look direction, driver, vehicle and environment parameters to create fitness grade display or warning

Don’t sleep and drive: VW’s fatigue detection technology

Increasing vehicle, especially motor vehicle, driver vigilance involves subjecting driver to visible and invisible electromagnetic radiation at least partly and/or at least for part of time

Motor vehicle driver`s reflex action recognizing method, involves measuring brightness of ambient light and reflex time taken by pupil of driver against light, and generating threshold value for automatic tiredness estimate of driver

Device for retaining and connecting e.g. handy, to passenger cabin of motor vehicle, has receiving space that is suitable for completely retaining connection line that is assigned to electrical or electronic device

Optical monitoring system observing vehicle drivers eyes e.g. for signs of tiredness, is positioned to avoid obstruction to beam path during driving

Monitoring vehicle driver attention involves producing signal with dynamically increasing intensity if switch not operated at intervals whose length can be varied depending on situation

Motor vehicle driver's temporal eye opening degree parameterizing method for driver assistance system, involves calculating static characteristic values from parameters of final blink obtained from fusion of suspected blinks from eyes

Driver alertness detection method for automatically initiating a subsidiary task on detecting a drop in alertness uses a synthetic voice module to trigger a call via an on-board telephone facility

Recognition of the inclination of a person to go to sleep, by monitoring a person's actual muscle reaction pattern and comparing it with a model muscle reaction pattern in order to detect a deviation and trigger an alarm