Information processing system and information processing method causing a portable communications terminal to cooperate with an electronic device

• US 10,297,225 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2015
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Tamura, Shizuka, Hirashima, Yoshitaka, Kitahara, Toshio, Murata, Toshihiro, Maehata, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): He, Yingchun
• Application Number:
  US14/968,485
• Publication Number:
  US 20160240169A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,254 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/00 Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/20 characterised by the type of display used
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/207 using multi-purpose displays, e.g. camera image and navigation or video on same display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information

Abstract

An information processing system according to the embodiments includes an in-vehicle device (electronic device), a portable communication terminal, a terminal position computing unit (computing unit), and a specific process executing unit (executing unit). The in-vehicle device is provided in a vehicle (predetermined facility). The portable communication terminal is capable of mutual communication with the in-vehicle device. The terminal position computing unit computes a position of the portable communication terminal based upon a motion of the portable communication terminal. The specific process executing unit, when the position of the portable communication terminal computed by the terminal position computing unit is a predetermined position that is predefined in the facility, executes a specific process corresponding to the predetermined position.

Claims

1. An information processing system causing a portable communication terminal to cooperate with an electronic device, the electronic device being provided in a vehicle, the portable communication terminal being capable of mutual communication with the electronic device, the electronic device comprising:

a memory storing map data; and

a processor operatively coupled to the memory, the processor being programmed to;

receive a signal indicating a motion of the portable communication terminal inside the vehicle from the portable communication terminal;

compute a position of the portable communication terminal inside the vehicle based upon the received signal;

in response to the computed position of the portable communication terminal being at a predetermined position that is predefined in the vehicle, cause the portable communication terminal to display an on-terminal map region that is a region different from an on-vehicle map region of the electronic device;

generate a wider-area map region from the stored map data, the wider-area map region being wider than the on-vehicle map region, wherein the on-terminal map region indicates a region to be displayed by the portable communication terminal and the on-vehicle map region indicates a region to be displayed by the electronic device from among the wider-area map region;

clip a part of the wider-area map region corresponding to the predetermined position;

cause the portable communication terminal to display the clipped part of the wider-area map region; and

cause the portable communication terminal to display specific information on at least one of operating situation of the vehicle, peripheral situation of the vehicle, maintenance situation of the vehicle, and in-vehicle comfort of an occupant, when the portable communication terminal is in a vicinity of an on-vehicle device corresponding to the specific information, the specific information not including map information.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device is an in-vehicle device loaded in the vehicle.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein

the predetermined position is defined as a vicinity of an instrument board in the vehicle, and

the portable communication terminal, when being located in a predetermined position in the vicinity of the instrument board, performs auxiliary display of a meter in the instrument board.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to:

cause the portable communication terminal to display the specific information and the clipped part in a superimposed manner.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein

the predetermined position is defined as a vicinity of an instrument board in the vehicle, and

the portable communication terminal, when being located in a predetermined position in the vicinity of the instrument board, performs auxiliary display of a meter in the instrument board.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined position is defined as a vicinity of an instrument board in the vehicle, and

the portable communication terminal, when being located in a predetermined position in the vicinity of the instrument board, performs auxiliary display of a meter in the instrument board.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising

a holder provided in the predetermined position to hold the portable communication terminal in the predetermined position, and wherein

the processor is programmed to execute a specific process corresponding to the predetermined position in which the holder is provided when the portable communication terminal is held by the holder.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to execute a specific process corresponding to the predetermined position when a predetermined definite operation is performed on the portable communication terminal in the predetermined position.

9. The information processing system according to claim 8, wherein the portable communication terminal terminates display about the specific process when a predetermined cancel operation for canceling the definite operation is performed.

10. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising

a control device provided in the vehicle and capable of mutual communication with the electronic device, wherein

the control device is connected to various instruments provided in the vehicle,

the processor is programmed to execute a specific process corresponding to the predetermined position, and

in the specific process, the portable communication terminal sends, via the electronic device to the control device, setting signals including arbitrary setting values directed to the various instruments, and causes the control device to execute a setting process of the various instruments according to the setting signals.

11. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the processor is further programmed to cause a display of the electronic device to display the on-vehicle map region that includes a current position of the vehicle, and

the on-terminal map region includes an area according to a relative position of the portable communication terminal to the electronic device in the wider-area map region.

12. An information processing method for an information processing system that causes a portable communication terminal to cooperate with an electronic device, the electronic device being provided in a vehicle and including a memory storing map data, the portable communication terminal being capable of mutual communication with the electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving a signal indicating a motion of the portable communication terminal inside the vehicle from the portable communication terminal;

computing a position of the portable communication terminal inside the vehicle based upon the received signal;

in response to the computed position of the portable communication terminal being at a predetermined position that is predefined in the vehicle, cause the portable communication terminal to display an on-terminal map region that is a region different from an on-vehicle map region of the electronic device, a wider-area map region that is wider than the on-vehicle map region;

generating a wider-area map region from the stored map data, the wider-area map region being wider than the on-vehicle map region, wherein the on-terminal map region indicates a region to be displayed by the portable communication terminal and the on-vehicle map region indicates a region to be displayed by the electronic device from among the wider-area map region;

clipping a part of the wider-area map region corresponding to the predetermined position to generate the on-vehicle map region;

causing the portable communication terminal to display the clipped part of the wider-area map region; and

cause the portable communication terminal to display specific information on at least one of operating situation of the vehicle, peripheral situation of the vehicle, maintenance situation of the vehicle, and in-vehicle comfort of an occupant, when the portable communication terminal is in a vicinity of an on-vehicle device corresponding to the specific information, the specific information not including map information.