AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF

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AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18419054 titled 'AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF

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Disclosed is an autonomous driving control apparatus which includes a sensor device, a driving device, a memory, and a controller. The autonomous driving control apparatus identifies traffic lights in front of a host vehicle, performs stop control for the host vehicle using the driving device, based on identifying that a lighting state of the traffic lights is a first lighting state, identifies that the lighting state of the traffic lights changes from the first lighting state to a second lighting state using the sensor device, and determines whether to perform restart control of the host vehicle based on at least one of whether a user keeps his or her eyes on the road, properties of a driving section, whether a pedestrian crosses, or whether a user confirmation input is received, or any combination thereof.