Wireless trainable transceiver device with integrated interface and GPS modules

• US 10,198,938 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2016
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gentex Corporation
• Original Assignee: Gentex Corporation
• Inventors: Geerlings, Steven L., Swiftney, Steven, Foy, Landon S., Ohler, Jens, Huisingh, Jack A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bousono, Orlando
• Application Number:
  US15/341,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20170076591A1
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00865 remotely by wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00928 for garage doors
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/20 Binding and programming of remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/62 Rolling code
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/91 Remote control based on location and proximity
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared

Abstract

A trainable transceiver is provided having an integrated interface connections with various vehicle modules for use with various remote electronic devices and a method of programming and using the same. The wireless trainable transceiver is in a vehicle with an integrated interface allowing connection to a human-to-machine interface and vehicle position determination device, such a navigation system and compass and the wireless trainable transceiver has the ability to change functions associated with preset buttons on the trainable transceiver, depending upon the location of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A wireless control system for wireless control of a remote electronic system, the wireless control system comprising:

an operator input device having a set number of programmable buttons and at least one memory slot associated with each of the programmable buttons;

a transmitter module configured to transmit a wireless control signal having control data which will control the remote electronic system;

an interface module configured to receive geographic location data; and

a control module coupled to the transmitter module and the programmable buttons, and wherein the control module selects which memory slot is active in relation to each of the programmable buttons based upon the geographic location data received by the interface module,

wherein the geographic location data is provided from a vehicle position determination device of a vehicle, the vehicle position determination device comprises a navigation system and a compass, the navigation system supplying a first geographic position identifier which is a location of the vehicle and the compass supplying a second geographic position identifier which is a heading of the vehicle, wherein the control module selects which memory slot is active in relation to each of the programmable buttons, based upon both the first and second geographic position identifiers.

2. The wireless control system of claim 1, wherein the control module stores control data of a wireless control signal in a memory slot of the at least one memory slot upon receiving the wireless control signal and identifying the control data of the wireless control signal during a training procedure.

3. The wireless control system of claim 1, wherein the at least one memory slot includes individual sets of memory slots, each of the individual sets of memory slots having a shared geographic position identifier associated with each of the memory slots of the individual sets of memory slots and wherein each of the individual sets of memory slots has a number of memory slots equal in number to the set number of programmable buttons.

4. The wireless control system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle position determination device is capable of providing geographic location data corresponding to a geographic position identifier and wherein the control module associates the geographic position identifier with a selected set of the at least one memory slot and wherein the selected set of the at least one memory slot has a number of memory slots equal to the set number of the programmable buttons.

5. The wireless control system of claim 1 wherein the wireless control system is provided in the vehicle, wherein the control module is configured to allow access to the at least one memory slot only when an actual location of the vehicle is within a specified range of the geographic position identifier associated with each of the at least one memory slot.

6. A wireless control system for wireless control of a remote electronic system, the wireless control system comprising:

an operator input device having a set number of programmable buttons and at least one memory slot associated with each of the programmable buttons;

a transmitter module configured to transmit a wireless control signal having control data which will control the remote electronic system;

an interface module configured to receive geographic location data; and

a control module coupled to the transmitter module and the programmable buttons, and wherein the control module selects which memory slot k active in relation to each of the programmable buttons based upon the geographic location data received by the interface module,

wherein the geographic location data is provided from a vehicle position determination device of a vehicle,

wherein the vehicle position determination device comprises a navigation system for supplying geographic location data corresponding to a first geographic position identifier which is a location of the vehicle, wherein the control module selects which memory slot is active in relation to each of the programmable buttons based upon the first geographic position identifier.

7. A wireless control system for a vehicle, configured for controlling a plurality of remote electronic devices at different geographic locations, the wireless control system comprising:

an operator input device having a plurality of programmable buttons;

an interface module in communication with a vehicle position determination device for receiving geographic location data corresponding to a location of the vehicle;

a transceiver module including an antenna for transmitting unique activation signals to the plurality of remote electronic devices;

a control module including a plurality of groups of memory slots, wherein each group of memory slots is associated with a different one of the plurality of programmable buttons, wherein each memory slot having stored therein signal data corresponding to a different one of the unique activation signals,

wherein the control module is coupled to the plurality of programmable buttons and the transceiver module, and is coupled to the interface module for receiving the geographic location data, wherein each memory slot of each group of memory slots has associated therewith a different geographic position identifier corresponding to the location of the vehicle at the time that the signal data was stored therein, and

wherein, upon actuation of one of the programmable buttons, the control module is configured to;

select one memory slot of the group of memory slots associated with the actuated one of the programmable buttons based on a proximity of the geographic position identifier of the one memory slot to a current location of the vehicle as determined from the geographic location data received from the interface module at a time of actuation of the actuated one of the programmable buttons, and

read the signal data stored in the selected one memory slot and cause the transceiver module to transmit one of the unique activation signals corresponding to the signal data read from the selected one memory slot.

8. The wireless control system of claim 7, wherein upon actuation of one of the plurality of programmable buttons during a training procedure in which the transceiver module receives one of the unique activations signals, the control module stores a control frequency and data code as the signal data corresponding to the received one of the unique activation signals in a selected one of the group of memory slots associated with the actuated one of the plurality of programmable buttons, and associates the selected one of the group of memory slots with a geographic position identifier corresponding to the current location of the vehicle as determined from the geographic location data received from the interface module at a time of actuation of the actuated one of the programmable buttons.

9. The wireless control system of claim 7, wherein the plurality of remote electronic devices includes at least two of:

a garage door opener, a security gate, and a home alarm.

10. The wireless control system of claim 7, wherein the vehicle position determination device includes a navigation system for supplying geographic location data corresponding to a geographic position identifier which is a location of the vehicle, wherein the control module selects which memory slot is active in relation to each of the programmable buttons based upon the geographic position identifier.

11. The wireless control system of claim 7, wherein the vehicle position determination device includes a compass for supplying a heading, and wherein the control module selects which memory slot is active in relation to each of the programmable buttons based upon the heading provided by the compass.

12. The wireless control system of claim 7, wherein the control module is configured to access any one of the memory slots of each of the groups of memory slots only when a current location of the vehicle is within a specified range of the geographic position identifier associated with the memory slots.