Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Kia Corporation

Sl Corporation

Sl Mirrortech Corporation

Seok Keon Kwon

Keun Sig Lim

Hyun Sub Kim

Chang Woo Sohn

Chang Ju Kim

Chan Mook Choi

Choon Gi Jung

Soo Man Jung

Dong Uk Kang

Mu Youl Lee

Byeong Kwan Kim

Woo Young Chung

An apparatus for controlling a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a processor; a memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the processor; and the one or more programs include instructions for: a first determination unit configured to determine whether the vehicle is in a driving state; a first controller configured to deactivate a touch mode of the touch panel provided in the digital side mirror system when the vehicle is determined to be in the driving state; a second determination unit configured to determine whether the vehicle is in a switch mode for controlling the function of the vehicle through the operating switch; and a second controller configured to control a driver to perform a function from a menu selected through the operating switch when the vehicle is determined to be in the switch mode.

Apparatus and method of controlling vehicle equipped with operating switch linked to touch panel of digital side mirror system

A vehicle side and rear monitoring system with a fail-safe function and a method thereof are provided. The system provides a fail-safe function for safe driving of a vehicle when an abnormality occurs in a side monitoring system of the vehicle, and a technique that provides a continuous side field of view of the vehicle when an abnormality occurs in the side monitoring system in the vehicle equipped with an AVM system. In addition, the system and provides a technique that corrects the distortion of an image captured by an AVM camera and performs an image rotation transformation to provide the image captured by the AVM camera at the same angle as that provided by side-view cameras. Therefore, when an abnormality occurs in the side monitoring system, the vehicle side and rear monitoring system with a fail-safe function continuously provides the same image as captured by the side-view cameras.

Vehicle side and rear monitoring system with fail-safe function and method thereof

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Seok Keon Kwon