Patent attributes
Proposed are a seat for a vehicle and a method of controlling the same capable of sensing whether an occupant is snoring and of changing the posture of the occupant so as to induce sound sleep of the occupant. The seat for a vehicle includes a seat cushion, a seatback, a side bolster, a headrest, a sensing device mounted in the headrest to sense whether an occupant is on the seat and whether the occupant is snoring, a posture-changing device mounted in at least one of the seat cushion, the seatback, the side bolster, or the headrest to change the posture of the occupant, and a controller configured to determine whether the occupant is on the seat and whether the occupant is snoring based on a sensing signal output from the sensing device and to operate the posture-changing device.