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US 10,962,378 · App. 15/744,489 · Granted Mar 30, 2021

Autonomous vehicle and method of controlling the autonomous vehicle

Inventors: John Cronin (Suwon-si, KR); Christopher Michael Huffines (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
G01C21/3415B60H1/00742B60Q3/80B60R16/037B60W50/082B60W50/10B60W50/14G01C21/362G01C21/3664G08G1/096827G08G1/096844G08G1/202H04M1/6091B60W2040/0872B60W2540/26B60W2556/50G08B21/0453G08B21/06H04M1/72566H04M1/72572
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,962,378
App. No.
15/744,489
Filed
Jan 12, 2018
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3665
USPC
701/26
Abstract

Disclosed are an autonomous driving method of implementing adaptive autonomous driving for a user based on device information that is obtained from a device of the user, and an autonomous vehicle. In particular, disclosed are an autonomous driving method of implementing autonomous driving appropriate for a situation of the user by controlling a function of an autonomous vehicle that corresponds to device information obtained from a wearable device, and the autonomous vehicle.

Claims (25)

1. An autonomous vehicle comprising:

a communication device configured to receive device information obtained from a device configured to communicate with the autonomous vehicle, from the device, wherein the device information comprises biometric information; and

a processor configured to, based on guidelines for associating the biometric information obtained from the device with vehicle control information used to control at least one function of the autonomous vehicle, determine the vehicle control information corresponding to the biometric information and control the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle control information,

wherein the biometric information is a blood-related information of a user of the autonomous vehicle, and the at least one function is a function performed while maintaining a state of autonomously driving of the autonomous vehicle.

2. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises a navigation function of the autonomous vehicle.

3. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises an accelerator function of the autonomous vehicle.

4. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises a navigation function of the autonomous vehicle.

5. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises to control a drive system of the autonomous vehicle.

6. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises to control an internal brightness function of the autonomous vehicle.

7. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises to control at least one of an air conditioning device, a heating device, and a ventilation device of the autonomous vehicle.

8. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises to control an audio/video device of the autonomous vehicle.

9. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises to control a navigation function of the autonomous vehicle based on driving environment information in order to change a driving route of the autonomous vehicle to a detour route.

10. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises to activate a drive system of the autonomous vehicle in order to determine a driving mode of the autonomous vehicle based on driving environment information.

11. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the at least one function comprises to activate a temperature adjusting function of the autonomous vehicle.

12. The autonomous vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the communication device is configured to send a communication request to the device within a certain range from the autonomous vehicle and receive the biometric information in response to the communication request.

13. A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:

receiving device information obtained from a device configured to communicate with the autonomous vehicle, from the device, wherein the device information comprises biometric information;

based on guidelines for associating the device information obtained from the device with vehicle control information used to control at least one function of the autonomous vehicle, determining the vehicle control information corresponding to the biometric information; and

controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle control information,

wherein the biometric information is a blood-related information of a user of the autonomous vehicle, and the at least one function is a function performed while maintaining a state of autonomously driving of the autonomous vehicle.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program which, when executed by a computer, performs a method of controlling an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising:

receiving device information obtained from a device configured to communicate with the autonomous vehicle, from the device, wherein the device information comprises biometric information;

based on guidelines for associating the device information obtained from the device with vehicle control information used to control at least one function of the autonomous vehicle, determining the vehicle control information corresponding to the biometric information; and

controlling the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle control information,

wherein the biometric information is a blood-related information of a user of the autonomous vehicle, and the at least one function is a function performed while maintaining a state of autonomously driving of the autonomous vehicle.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 24, 2018
From: CRONIN, JOHN; HUFFINES, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 047292/0477 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2016-0054121 · May 2, 2016 · national
KR 10-2016-0096766 · Jul 29, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62199184 · Jul 30, 2015
Related Publication 20180266834A1 · Sep 20, 2018
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