| 摘要 |
The present invention is directed to an eye state detecting apparatus and method, that is, including the step of preliminarily discriminating an eye opening and an eye closure by setting an automatic threshold from an eye region and thus dividing an image, and obtaining boundary points of divided zones and using an ellipse most properly equal to the boundary points and consecutively the step of in a case preliminarily discriminated as the eye closure, if an eye closure time is greater than a preset threshold time, the eye state is discriminated into an eye closure, and if not greater, discriminated into an eye blinking. |
