Patent ID: 8560166

Claim:
A control system for a vehicle, the control system comprising: a plurality of in-vehicle apparatuses of the vehicle; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information about a position of the vehicle; a detection unit configured to detect at least one of a voice and an action of an occupant of the vehicle; a determination unit configured to estimate an in-vehicle apparatus from the plurality of in-vehicle apparatuses to be a controlled target according to the position of the vehicle, and determine an in-vehicle apparatus to be controlled from the plurality of in-vehicle apparatuses and a control content of the determined in-vehicle apparatus in consideration of the detected at least one of a voice and an action of the occupant; a notification unit configured to notify the occupant of the in-vehicle apparatus to be controlled determined by the determination unit and the control content of the determined in-vehicle apparatus; and a control unit configured to control the determined in-vehicle apparatus according to the determination of the determination unit when receiving a response to the notification of the notification unit from the occupant to permit the control of the determined in-vehicle apparatus, wherein the information about the condition where the vehicle is placed includes environment information about an environment of an interior of the vehicle, the determination unit is configured to determine whether the environment information satisfies a first condition, which specifies that an in-vehicle environment control apparatus for controlling the environment of the interior of the vehicle need to be controlled, the determination unit is further configured to determine whether the environment information satisfies a second condition, which specifies that the in-vehicle environment control apparatus need not be controlled, when the environment information satisfies neither the first condition nor the second condition, the determination unit estimates the in-vehicle environment control apparatus to be the controlled target, and when the detection unit detects at least one of a voice and an action specifying that the occupant prefers a control of the environment of the interior of the vehicle, the determination unit determines that the in-vehicle environment control apparatus is the in-vehicle apparatus to be controlled according to the detected at least one of a voice and an action, and the determination unit determines the control content of the determined in-vehicle apparatus according to the detected at least one of a voice and an action.