Vehicle including a cap that is automatically separated from a vehicle body
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsJongChan Jun, Dea Ki Cheong, Deok Hwan Seo, Kwon Hyoung Choi, Jinhyung Lee
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Abstract
A vehicle includes an image acquisition unit, a cap provided on a body of the vehicle and configured to open and close a replenishing port for replenishing an energy source, a driving unit allowing the cap to be separated or connected from/to the body, and a controller configured to determine an intention of a user to replenish the energy source on the basis of an image acquired by the image acquisition unit, and control the driving unit such that the cap is automatically separated from the body in response to determining that the intention of the user to replenish the energy source exists.
Claims9
A vehicle comprising:
- an image acquisition unit;
- a storage configured to store an energy source replenishment path and facial information of an authorized user;
- a plurality of obstacle detectors provided at different positions on a body and configured to detect an obstacle;
- a cap provided on a body of the vehicle and configured to open and close a replenishing port for replenishing an energy source;
- a driving unit allowing the cap to be separated or connected from/to the body;
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- a controller configured to:
- identify identification information of obstacle detectors that have outputted a detection signal and a detection order thereof;
- determine a movement path of the user based on the identified identification information and the detection order;
- activate the image acquisition unit in response to determining that the determined movement path coincides with the energy source replenishment path stored in the storage;
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- determine that an intention of the user to replenish the energy source exists in response to determining that a face recognized from an image acquired by the activated image acquisition unit corresponds to the facial information of the authorized user stored in the storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.