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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2017
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Hyungmin Park, Seoul, KR;
Hyun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Choil Lee, Seoul, KR;
Joongrock Kim, Seoul, KR;
Injun Park, Seoul, KR;
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle, and including a display configured to display image information associated with the vehicle; at least one light source configured to emit light so as to form at least one reflected light in one region of a pupil and eyeball of a user gazing at one region on the display; a memory configured to store coordinate information on each region within the vehicle and the at least one light source; at least one camera configured to obtain an image including the one region of the pupil and eyeball of the user; and a controller configured to calculate a first coordinate from a center of the pupil and calculate a second coordinate from the at least one reflected light included in the obtained image, calculate a coordinate of one point within the vehicle as a reference coordinate from prestored coordinate information of the at least one light source when a distance between the first coordinate and the second coordinate is less than a preset distance, and perform calibration on the reference coordinate for a coordinate corresponding to a direction in which the user gazes.