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US 11,027,649 B2Granted
Vehicle with controller configured to acquire images to determine a number of boarding passengers, and method therefor
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorSeYoung Park
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Abstract
A vehicle includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image around the vehicle, and a controller configured to control the image acquisition unit to acquire an image of a predetermined area based on a positional relationship between a smart key and the vehicle, and an opening of at least one of rear doors of the vehicle, and determine the number of boarding passengers based on the image of the predetermined area.
Claims12
A vehicle comprising:
- an image acquisition unit configured to acquire images around the vehicle;
- an output device;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- control the image acquisition unit to acquire at least one image of a predetermined area based on a positional relationship between a smart key and the vehicle, and an opening of at least one rear door of rear doors of the vehicle,
- process the at least one image to determine a number of boarding passengers based on the at least one image of the predetermined area,
- determine a number of passengers included in the at least one image of the predetermined area when the at least one rear door of the rear doors of the vehicle is opened,
- determine a number of non-boarding passengers included in the at least one image of the predetermined area when the rear doors are closed after the opening of the at least one rear door of the rear doors,
- determine the number of the boarding passengers based on a difference between the number of the passengers included in the at least one image of the predetermined area and the number of the non-boarding passengers, and
- output a confirmation message of whether a boarding passenger among the boarding passengers exits the vehicle to the output device when an engine of the vehicle is turned off.
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A vehicle control method comprising:
- acquiring, by an image acquisition unit, at least one image of a predetermined area based on a positional relationship between a smart key and a vehicle, and an opening of at least one rear door of rear doors of the vehicle;
- processing the at least one image to determine a number of boarding passengers based on the at least one image of the predetermined area,
- wherein:
- the determining of the number of the boarding passengers based on the at least one image of the predetermined area includes,
- determining a number of passengers included in the at least one image of the predetermined area when the at least one rear door of the rear doors of the vehicle is opened,
- determining a number of non-boarding passengers included in the at least one image of the predetermined area when the rear doors are closed after the opening of the at least one rear door, and
- determining the number of the boarding passengers based on a difference between the number of the passengers included in the at least one image of the predetermined area and the number of the non-boarding passengers;
- and
- outputting, to an output device, a confirmation message of whether a boarding passenger among the boarding passengers exits the vehicle when an engine of the vehicle is turned off.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.