Jaguar has already unveiled plans for eye-tracking cameras that can prevent you from falling asleep at the wheel.
捷豹推出了眼球追蹤攝像頭的計劃，它能防止你在方向盤上睡著。

And now its latest patent wants to use this technology to control a car's window wipers.
現在其最新的專利想利用這一技術來控制汽車的雨刷。

It details a system in which every time the driver looks in their rear-view mirror the wipers on the rear window are activated automatically.
專利中詳細介紹了一個系統，每次司機看后視鏡的時候后窗雨刷自動被激活。

However, the filing hints that it could potentially work with wipers on the front windscreen too.
然而，文件暗示司機的這一動作也可能使前擋風玻璃的雨刷被激活。

The patent, called 'Windscreen clearing system for a vehicle', was filed by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) in March 2013 and awarded this week. It was originally spotted by Gizmag.
這項被稱為“車輛的擋風玻璃清潔系統”的專利，于2013年3月由捷豹路虎(JLR)提出，并于本周授予。而最早發現它的其實是Gizmag。

When a driver decides to observe the environment behind the vehicle by looking through the rear windscreen, typically using a rear-view mirror, the rear windscreen may not be wiped and may be obscured.
當司機想通過后擋風玻璃觀察車后面的環境時，后風擋玻璃可能很久沒擦，也可能模糊不清，因此司機通常只能使用后視鏡來觀察。

It is against this background that the present invention has been conceived.
正是在這種背景下，本發明才被設想出來。

JLR added that the patent refers to a windscreen wiper system for a vehicle 'and particularly, but not exclusively, to a rear windscreen wiper system' that operates automatically in response to detecting eye-movement of a driver of the vehicle toward a rear-view mirror.
JLR補充說，這項關于擋風玻璃雨刷系統的專利"主要針對但不僅限于后擋風玻璃雨刷系統"，后者在探測到司機眼球朝后視鏡方向移動時自動啟用。

It is likely to take advantage of the eye-tracking Driver Monitor System (DMS) JLR announced in January.
它很可能利用了JLR在一月份宣布的眼球追蹤司機監控系統(DMS)。

JLR, with support from Intel and Seeing Machines, has developed sensing technology that monitors the driver's face and eyes to reduce distracted and drowsy driving.
JLR在英特爾和視覺機器公司的支持下，已經開發了監測司機的臉和眼睛的遙感技術，以減少分心和疲勞駕駛。

Vocabulary

windscreen 汽車擋風玻璃
rear-view mirror 后視鏡

（譯者：LYZBISTU 編輯：彭娜）