A vehicle and a method of controlling the vehicle include a display unit, an adjuster configured to move the display unit within a preset angle range, and a controller configured to move the display unit to correspond to a change in a proceeding direction of the vehicle during autonomous driving of the vehicle to a preset destination. When an autonomous vehicle changes a vehicle proceeding direction during driving, a display unit or a seat inside the vehicle is turned and moved in the same direction as the changed vehicle proceeding direction to lower a physical angular speed that affects human carsickness, thereby reducing carsickness.

Embodiments include a vehicle comprising a seat, a first sensor coupled to the seat for detecting a seat angle, and a processor communicatively coupled to the first sensor and the seat, and configured to output a control signal for correcting the seat angle if the seat angle is not within a predetermined range of values. Embodiments also include a method of correcting a position of a vehicle seat having an occupant seated therein. The method comprises receiving, at a processor, an output detected by a sensor unit coupled to the seat; comparing, using the processor, the output to a predetermined threshold to determine whether an alarm condition exists; if it does, outputting a control signal for correcting the seat position, wherein the sensor unit includes an angular position sensor.

Vehicle seat adjustment systems that move more than one seat in a linked manner are disclosed. A vehicle seat adjustment system for a vehicle includes a front seat of the vehicle, one or more passenger seats behind the front seat, an input device configured to receive an input for adjusting positions of the front seat, a first actuator configured to adjust positions of the front seat, a second actuator configured to adjust positions of the one or more passenger seats, and a controller communicatively coupled to the input device and the first and second actuators. The controller instructs the first actuator to move the front seat in a longitudinal direction for a first distance in response to the received input, and instructs the second actuator to move the one or more passenger seats in the longitudinal direction for a second distance in response to the received input.

A driver's seat of a motor vehicle may be moved by means of a drive from a rear relaxing position provided for driverless driving into a front driving position.

Vehicle seat adjustment systems including cameras are disclosed. The vehicle seat adjustment system includes a camera configured to capture a seat arrangement of a front seat of a vehicle and one or more seats behind the front seat, a screen, communicatively coupled to the camera, configured to display the seat arrangement captured by the camera, an input device configured to receive an input from a user for adjusting positions of the one or more seats, an actuator communicatively coupled to the input device and configured to adjust positions of the one or more seats, and a controller communicatively coupled to the camera, the screen, the input device and the actuator. The controller receives the input from the input device and instruct the actuator to adjust the positions of the one or more seats based on the input from the user.

A system includes a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a control system and a wireless transceiver operatively connected to the control system. The control system is configured to wirelessly communicate with a wearable device worn by a user using the wireless transceiver and the control system is configured to receive input from one or more sensors of the wearable device.

A seat control apparatus receives a user input from a user through an input part. The seat control apparatus may identify, among a plurality of input devices included in the input part, a type of an input device corresponding to the user input, and determine whether the massage function is to be performed, based on information of at least one of the identified type of the input device, a state of a host vehicle, a location state of the seat, a compulsory driving setting state of the massage function, or any combination thereof.

A system for seat motion planning includes a seat installable in an environment, the seat including a plurality of adjustable components, a plurality of actuators configured to move the adjustable components, and a seat controller configured to operate the plurality of actuators. The system further includes a motion planner communicatively coupled to the seat controller configured to access a seat motion plan from a plurality of seat motion plans stored in memory, access a model of the environment including at least one object affecting the seat motion plan, and modify the seat motion plan to account for the at least one object. In embodiments, the motion planner is implemented as an application executable by a processor configured to execute other, separate seat-related applications.

A seat control apparatus includes a sensor device, a driving device, a memory, and a control device. The control device is configured to: identify an intent of a user getting on a host vehicle by using the sensor device; identify a state of a seat corresponding to the user, when the intent of the user satisfies a specified condition; store the identified state of the seat in the memory; and control at least one of a slide location of the seat, a tilt location of the seat, a legrest location of the seat, or a combination thereof of the seat by using the driving device based on the state of the seat.

An occupant customized seat control apparatus and method are provided. The method includes recognizing, by a camera, an occupant that approaches a vehicle, controlling a display to move based on a height of the recognized occupant, determining whether the recognized occupant is an infant, and when the recognized occupant is determined to be an infant, determining whether a booster seat needs to be controlled based on the height of the recognized occupant, and when at least one of the booster seat, a footrest, or the combination thereof needs to be controlled, converting a value of the recognized height into a booster seat actuator movement amount value, and controlling the booster seat to move based on the converted actuator movement amount value.