Communication device for mobile body, communication system for mobile body, and automatic time correction method featuring communication device for mobile body

• US 10,292,017 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2016
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Oizumi, Toru, Hatakeyama, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Navar, Erica
• Application Number:
  US15/362,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20170127247A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0076 in which the time in another time-zone or in another city can be displayed at will
• CPC Class Codes: G04R 20/14 the radio signal being a telecommunication standard signal, e.g. GSM
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/42 for mass transport vehicles, e.g. buses, trains or aircraft

Abstract

The base station, which is installed in an aircraft and is capable of communicating with a terminal, comprises a wireless communication component that can be connected to the terminal, and a controller that controls the wireless communication component. The controller acquires regional information indicating at least the destination of the aircraft, determines time zone information corresponding to regional information, produces a time correction instruction according to the time zone information, and transmits the time correction instruction through the wireless communication component to the terminal.

Claims

1. A communication device to be provided in a mobile body which is a means of transportation, the communication device configured to communicate with one other communication device, said communication device comprising:

a communication component configured to connect to the one other communication device; and

a processor programmed to control the communication component,

the processor programmed to

acquire regional information indicating a destination of the mobile body;

determine third time zone information corresponding to the regional information indicating that the destination is located in a third time zone with respect to a first time zone of a departure site, a second time zone positioned between the first time zone and the third time zone;

produce a time correction instruction according to the third time zone information including the regional information of the destination located in the third time zone with respect to the first time zone of the departure site; and

transmit the time correction instruction through the communication component to the one other communication device, wherein the communication component is configured to connect to a plurality of user communication devices, and

the processor is programmed to

acquire first user regional information indicating a destination of a first user of a first user communication device and second user regional information indicating a destination of a second user of a second user communication device;

determine first user time zone information corresponding to the first user regional information, and second user time zone information corresponding to the second user regional information;

produce a first user time correction instruction according to the first user time zone information, and a second user time correction instruction according to the second user time zone information;

transmit the first user time correction instruction through the communication component to the first user communication device; and

transmit the second user time correction instruction through the communication component to the second user communication device.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the time correction instruction is an instruction to correct a current time of the one other communication device at the third time zone.

3. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein

the processor is programmed to acquire flight information including the regional information indicating the destination from a server in the mobile body.

4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the processor is programmed to transmit the time correction instruction to the other communication device when the mobile body is located in the first time zone of the departure site.

5. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the processor is programmed to produce the time correction instruction including a daylight saving time adjustment corresponding to the destination.

6. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the communication component is configured to connect to a display component,

the processor is programmed to transmit both a current time corresponding to the first time zone of the departure site and a corrected time corresponding to the third time zone of the destination to the display component, and

the display component is configured to display both the current time and the corrected time.