Vehicle control system and method for controlling same

摘要

The present invention provides a vehicle control system comprising: a user database for storing at least one user profile which designates an initial action for an in-vehicle end device; a fixed and wireless communication unit for establishing a communication channel with a mobile terminal and receiving identity information through the communication channel: and a control unit for extracting the user profile corresponding to the identity information from the user database, and controlling the end device so that the end device executes an initial action as designated by the extracted user profile.

主权项

1. An apparatus for controlling a vehicle, comprising:
a sensing unit provided to each seat within the vehicle, and configured to detect boarding of the vehicle by one or more users; a user database configured to store at least one user profile of each of the one or more users, each of the at least one profile designating an initial operation of a corresponding one of at least one end device in the vehicle for each of the one or more users; a wire/wireless communication unit configured to communicate with one or more mobile terminals; and a control unit configured to:
establish a communication channel with the one or more mobile terminals when the sensing unit detects that each user boards on the vehicle,detect a boarding seat position of each of the one or more users within the vehicle, among a driver's seat position and at least one seat position other than the driver's seat position, based on a detected seat position boarding order and an initiated order of establishing communication with the one or more mobile terminals,receive mobile terminal identification information from each of the one or more mobile terminals through the communication channel,extract, from the user database, one or more user profiles matching the mobile terminal identification information received from each of the one or more mobile terminals, andin response to the detected boarding seat position of each of the one or more users, control the at least one end device to operate in accordance with the initial operation designated for the one or more user profiles.