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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2021
Subaru Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Homma, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle seat control apparatus is equipped in a vehicle capable of travelling by automated driving and is configured to set a position and attitude of a seat of the vehicle to a driving position in low automated driving and to set the position and attitude of the seat to a relaxing position in high automated driving. The vehicle seat control apparatus includes an alertness detecting device configured to detect an alertness level of a driver seated on the seat, a computation control device configured to drive the seat driving device to perform an alerting operation if the alertness level is lower than a predetermined level when driving of the vehicle transitions from the high automated driving to the low automated driving, and a seat driving device configured to displace the seat at a higher speed than at a transition from the driving position to the relaxing position.