A vehicular apparatus includes: a control portion that executes an internal application pre-installed to the vehicular apparatus and an external application obtained from an external device located outside the vehicular apparatus; a load acquisition portion that acquires a load of the control portion when the external application is executed; and a display portion that displays the load acquired by the load acquisition portion.

A method for remote virtual reality control of movable vehicle partitions includes displaying a graphic model of at least a portion of a vehicle on an output device. The output device is located remotely from the vehicle and the vehicle has one or more movable vehicle partitions. The method includes processing images received from one or more imaging devices, the images including gestures relative to the graphic model. The method includes identifying one or more vehicle commands based on the gestures relative to the graphic model. The vehicle commands define control of the one or more movable vehicle partitions. The method further includes executing the vehicle commands at the vehicle.

Exemplary embodiments relate to a vehicle control system, an external electronic control unit, a vehicle control method, and an application, and more particularly, to a vehicle communication system installed in a vehicle and an external electronic control unit capable of performing vehicle control by transmitting, to the vehicle communication system, a vehicle control signal for controlling behavior of the vehicle on the basis of vehicle information received from the vehicle communication system. According to exemplary embodiments, it is possible to easily add or update a vehicle control function, to perform precise vehicle control, and also to perform autonomous traveling control with a user's terminal.

A method for setting a multi remote control in a vehicle includes: a communicator configured to perform wireless communication with a plurality of mobile communication terminals in the vehicle, a storage configured to store information related to the plurality of mobile communication terminals and remote control function setting information of a device in the vehicle, and a controller configured to distinguish between a mobile communication terminal located in a front seat and a mobile communication terminal located in a rear seat based on short-range communication connection strength of each of a plurality of mobile communication terminals inside the vehicle, the controller distributing each of a front seat remote control function and a rear seat remote control function to the distinguished front seat or rear seat mobile communication terminal.

Embodiments are directed towards providing a dynamic application environment where separate components of an application can execute on separate processing hardware at any given point in time. A host device monitors current operating characteristics associated with a computing device, such a head unit of an automobile, and based on those characteristics selects which components of one or more applications to execute on the computing device and which components to execute on the host device, if any. The host device provides the selected components to the computing device for execution by the computing device and the host device executes any other components that are not executed by the computing device. The host device monitors the current operating characteristics associated with the computing device, and modifies the selection of which components are executing on which device based on changes in current operating characteristics.

A system and method for controlling displays within a vehicle via a mobile computing device is provided. Generally, a user may activate a display device within a vehicle and control content presented via a computing device operably connected to the display device. A computer readable signal containing login credentials may be sent to the display device, allowing the system to identify the user. In some embodiments, the system may create custom advertisement blocks for the user based on user data collected by the system. In other embodiments, the system may attempt to locate the positions of the users within the vehicle to determine which displays within the vehicle should be used to present content. In some embodiments, machine-based learning may be used to assist with identifying users and targeted advertising.

A vehicle that can be customized and personalized via a mobile user profile. The vehicle can include a body, a powertrain, vehicle electronics, and a computing system. The computing system of the vehicle can be configured to: receive data fields of a driver profile of a user from a mobile device; estimate, using machine learning, configurations of vehicle functions for the vehicle according to the data fields; and control settings of a set of components of the vehicle, via the vehicle electronics, according to the estimated configurations.

A seat having features of evaluating a physical state of a seated occupant, in which motivation to use the features is enhanced, is provided. A physical state sharable seat is proposed which includes: a seat body; a sensor (8) configured to acquire a measurement value specific to a physical state of an occupant seated on the seat body; and a controller (100) connected to the sensor and thereby allowed to acquire the measurement value from the sensor, and configured to be capable of communicating with other equipment. The controller (100) includes: an evaluation unit (121) configured to compute an evaluation value on the physical state, based on the measurement value; an evaluation value presentation unit (122) configured to present the evaluation value at a terminal to be used by the occupant; a shared data acquisition unit (161) configured to acquire an other-occupant evaluation value that is an evaluation value on a physical state of another person, acquired either by the evaluation unit or from another physical state sharable seat; and a shared data presentation unit (162) configured to present the other-occupant evaluation value at the terminal to be used by the occupant.

Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for a remote control platform. The remote control platform includes a sensor. The sensor is configured to detect one or more objects within a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The remote control platform includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is coupled to the sensor. The electronic control unit is configured to determine an orientation of the vehicle and a route that includes a direction of travel. The electronic control unit is configured to navigate the vehicle along the route based on the one or more objects, the direction of travel and the orientation of the vehicle.

A method for controlling equipment of a vehicle includes obtaining direction information of a terminal and direction information of a vehicle based on a horizontal direction of a geomagnetic field, obtaining relative position information between the terminal and the vehicle, determining relative direction information between the terminal and the vehicle according to the direction information of the terminal and the direction information of the vehicle, determining equipment pointed to by the terminal according to the relative position information, the relative direction information, and position information of the equipment of the vehicle relative to the vehicle, and controlling the pointed equipment through the terminal or displaying information of the pointed equipment on the terminal.