Communication device

• US 10,536,575 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2018
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Takaoka, Toshimasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Nealon, William
• Application Number:
  US16/198,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20190166248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 419 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/16 Anti-theft; Abduction
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1427 with transmitter-receiver for distance detection
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1436 with motion detection
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0213 System disabling if a separation threshold is exceeded disabling electrical appliances in case of unplugging G08B13/1409
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0261 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect trespassing over a fixed physical boundary, e.g. the end of a garden
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/022 with dynamic range variability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A communication device has a storage, a GPS receiver, a communicator, and a controller. The storage stores a planned travel route. The GPS receiver receives GPS signals. The communicator communicates with the outside. The controller sets an area including the planned travel route as a target area, and when an out-of-area state has begun in which the location of the communication device falls outside the target area, transmits information indicating the location of the communication device as observed when the out-of-area state began to a previously registered transmission destination.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising:

a storage that stores a search application for using a search service for searching for a route from a place of departure to a destination and that stores a planned travel route searched for and confirmed by a user using the search application;

a GPS receiver that receives a GPS signal;

a communicator for communication with outside; and

a controller

that sets an area including the planned travel route as a target area and

that performs monitoring processing for determining whether an out-of-area state has begun in which a location of the communication device as recognized based on the GPS signal falls outside the target area;

a movement detector that senses movement of the communication device; and

a camera,

wherein

when the out-of-area state has begun, the controller

makes the camera perform shooting, and

transmits monitoring information including

information indicating the location of the communication device as observed when the out-of-area state began, and

shot data shot by the camera when the out-of-area state began

via the communicator to a transmission destination previously registered by the user,

after transmitting the monitoring information, the controller shifts to a lock mode in which the controller limits use of the communication device,

after shifting to the lock mode, until a prescribed ending condition is satisfied, every time the controller detects that the communication device has been moved based on an output of the movement detector, the controller

makes the camera perform shooting and

transmits monitoring information for re-transmission including

information indicating the location of the communication device as observed when the communication device was moved, and

shot data shot by the camera when the communication device was moved

via the communicator to the transmission destination, and

the controller

sets as a first area an area inside a circle with a center at the place of departure of the planned travel route and with a radius equal to a predetermined distance,

sets as a second area an area inside a circle with a center at the destination of the planned travel route and with a radius equal to the predetermined distance,

sets as a third area an area defined between first line data obtained by shifting the planned travel route by the predetermined distance in one direction and second line data obtained by shifting the planned travel route by the predetermined distance in another direction opposite to the one direction, and

sets the first, second, and third areas as the target area.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller starts the monitoring processing when the location of the communication device falls inside the first area.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein

when a prescribed unlocking condition is satisfied when the controller is operating in the lock mode, the controller shifts from the lock mode to a normal mode.

4. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a notifier,

wherein

the controller makes the notifier give a notification when the location of the communication device falls in the second area.