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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
May. 25, 2017
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Jin Kwon Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Seong Sook Ryu, Seoul, KR;
Byoung Joon Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Sam Yong Kim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for determining a driving state are provided. The apparatus includes a jerk calculator configured to determine a minimum prediction jerk generated in an interval until an ego vehicle arrives at a location of a preceding vehicle, using location, velocity, and acceleration information of the ego vehicle at a current time and location, velocity, and acceleration information of the preceding vehicle and determine a permission jerk of a driver of the ego vehicle, a determiner configured to determine whether the minimum prediction jerk is greater than the permission jerk of the driver and determine a careless driving state based on a driving operation state of the driver when the minimum prediction jerk is greater than the permission jerk of the driver, and a signal processor configured to output an alert when it is determined as the careless driving state.