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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Kyoungha Lee, Seoul, KR;

Inyoung Hwang, Seoul, KR;

Sungil Cho, Seoul, KR;

Kangmin Kim, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0054 (2020.02); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/082 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); B60W 2040/0809 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0881 (2013.01); B60W 2050/021 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0215 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2540/227 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02);
Abstract

A vehicle control method is disclosed. The vehicle control method includes: while controlling the driving of a vehicle taking control of itself, determining if there is a need to hand over the control of driving to a passenger in the vehicle; if it is determined that there is a need to hand over the control of driving to a passenger in the vehicle, selecting at least one of passengers to whom the control of driving may be handed over; determining an order of priority in handing over the control of driving by taking into consideration the at least one selected passenger's occupancy state information; handing over the control of driving to a top priority passenger according to the order of priority; and controlling the driving environment by taking into consideration the top priority passenger's occupancy state information.


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