US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 1 for "Apparatus and method for controlling an in-vehicle lighting environment" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,928, issued on April 1, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling an in-vehicle lighting environment" was invented by Hae Seong Jeong (Busan, South Korea) and Jung Seok Suh (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling an in-vehicle lighting environment includes: a passenger state determination unit that determines a state of a passenger using a gaze of the passenger photographed by a camera of a vehicle; a driving state determination unit that determines a driving state of the vehicle using an acceleration...