A system may include zones associated with respective seating positions of a vehicle and in-vehicle components each associated with at least one of the zones. An in-vehicle component may identify a personal device associated with the zone of the in-vehicle component by identifying a personal device associated with the zone of the in-vehicle component by determining average signal strength between the personal device and the in-vehicle components of each zone, and identifying for which zone the average signal strength is highest, and sending a notification to the personal device responsive to a detected user interaction. A method may include detecting user interaction to an in-vehicle component of a zone; acquiring signal strength intensity information of personal devices from other in-vehicle components of the zone; calculating average signal strengths of the personal devices to the in-vehicle components; associating one of the personal devices to the zone as having a highest average signal strength to the in-vehicle components of the zone; and sending a notification to the one of the personal devices.

Disclosed are a system and method for controlling a vehicle. The system for controlling a vehicle includes a vehicle control device that collects vehicle information and driver information, and a server that determines a streaming cluster image corresponding to the vehicle information and the driver information based on a learned cluster image.

A steering system for vehicles that includes a steering device associated with a vehicle and provided with a steering wheel provided with a body configured to be gripped by the user and rotationally actuatable by the user, about an axis of rotation, in order to impart changes of direction to the vehicle. The steering device includes at least one button which can be operated by the user to control or set at least one onboard system installed on the vehicle; a display configured to display the commands or settings imparted by means of the button is mounted on the body of the steering wheel.

There is provided a system for the measuring of the BAC and/or possible existence of illegal active substances in a driver (4) of a vehicle, the system characterized in that it comprises: a first portable device (1) which comprises at least one sensor for detecting the BAC and/or other illegal active substances of said driver (4); and a second device (2) fixedly mounted on the vehicle and which it is interfaced with said first portable device (1) to receive/send one or more electrical signals to a control unit, the latter being mounted on said vehicle; the arrangement being such that said electrical signals from said second device (2) are related to the detected/sensed values of BAC and/or other illegal active substances and coming from said first device (1), and said control unit being adapted to control the management of the whole vehicle consequently and according to the values of said electrical signals.

An audio-video (AV) device for a vehicle includes a display panel including a display unit and a pattern unit arranged on edges of the display unit; and a display board disposed on a rear face of the display panel. The display board includes at least one wireless antenna located outside of the display unit, an antenna module, and a connector.

A method, device, and vehicle information system are provided for persisting application context from the vehicle information system to the mobile device. The mobile device provides access to at least one application executing on the mobile device to the vehicle information system. On termination of that access, an operating context is determined for each of the mobile device applications where possible. In some cases, where application context is persisted from one system or device to the other, the current data is presented in accordance with a transport modality associated with the other device or system.

Provided is an information provision apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus capable of providing information that fits the situation of the vehicle to a user. An information provision apparatus for a vehicle is provided with a vehicle-mounted device which comprises a report means for reporting various kinds of information including vehicle information to a user, and a control means for operating the report means, and is connected to an external device via a connection means. Upon receiving a manipulation input signal indicating that a start switch of the vehicle is turned on, the control means operates the report means in order to report to the user that a communication connection between the vehicle-mounted device and the external device is not established, until the communication connection is established.

A computing platform of a vehicle may receive a request from a mobile device executing a data collection application using an element of vehicle data. The platform may access a permission table to confirm that a unique identifier of the mobile device is authorized to access the element of vehicle data. The mobile device may subscribe to a characteristic providing the element of vehicle data. The vehicle may update the element of vehicle data provided by the characteristic in accordance with a predefined threshold.

An Audio Video Navigation Telematics (AVNT) system for vehicles include a display unit configured to display home screen menus including function menus for the AVNT and a processor configured to control the display unit. When a call channel of a smartphone is connected to the AVNT through Bluetooth, the processor is configured to determine a call state through the smartphone: an outgoing call state, an incoming call state, and an active call state, may check a first information on a phone number using a first command value in the determined call state, may analyze a second information checked with the phone number using the checked first information and a second command value, and may be configured for controlling the display unit to display a first state or a second state different from the first state based on the analysis results.

An embodiment relates to a method for providing a pet mode in a vehicle, which is executed by a system, comprising: (a) a step of establishing communication between a user terminal and an infotainment system of the vehicle; (b) a step in which a pet sound collection unit of the user terminal collects sound information occurring inside the vehicle when a pet is present therein, and transmits the collected sound information to a server; (c) a step in which the server classifies the received sound information into pet sounds and non-pet sounds based on a preset algorithm; (d) a step in which the server determines the emotional state of the pet with reference to a preset pet emotion state table, based on the sound classified as a pet sound.