Vehicle and control method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorYeonhee Choi
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a detector configured to detect a fingerprint of a user and a temperature of the finger. A storage medium is configured to store a user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint and temperature set value data corresponding to the detected temperature. A controller is configured to control an electronic device in the vehicle based on a user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint when the user set value exists, and to control an air conditioner based on a temperature set value corresponding to the detected temperature when there are more than a predetermined number of temperature set value data stored.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a detector configured to detect a fingerprint of a user finger, the detector also configured to detect a temperature of the finger at predetermined intervals;
- a storage medium configured to store a user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint and temperature set value data corresponding to the detected temperature;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- when a user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint exists, control an electronic device in the vehicle based on the user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint and to control an air conditioner based on a temperature set value corresponding to the temperature detected at the predetermined intervals when there are more than a predetermined number of temperature set value data stored;
- and
- when a user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint does not exist, register the detected fingerprint based on whether a command to register the detected fingerprint has been input.
A control method of a vehicle, the control method comprising:
- detecting a fingerprint of a user finger;
- detecting a temperature of the finger at predetermined intervals;
- storing a user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint and temperature set value data corresponding to the detected temperature;
- controlling an electronic device in the vehicle based on a user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint when the user set value exists;
- controlling an air conditioner based on a temperature set value corresponding to the detected temperature when there are more than a predetermined number of temperature set value data stored, the air conditioner being controlled based on a temperature set value corresponding to the temperature detected at the predetermined intervals;
- and
- when there is no user set value corresponding to the detected fingerprint, registering the detected fingerprint based on whether a command to register the detected fingerprint is input.
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a vehicle doors attached to the vehicle body;
- a front window facing a front side of the vehicle body;
- an air conditioner;
- a steering wheel within the vehicle body adjacent the front window;
- a temperature detector provided on the steering wheel;
- a storage medium configured to store a temperature set value corresponding to a finger temperature detected by the temperature detector;
- and
- a controller configured to control the air conditioner based on the temperature set value corresponding to the finger temperature detected by the temperature detector when the temperature set value corresponding to the finger temperature is stored in the storage medium and to register a detected fingerprint corresponding to finger temperature detected by the temperature detector when the temperature set value corresponding to the finger temperature is not stored in the storage medium and a command to register the detected fingerprint has been input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.