Individual-adaptive system and information distribution device

• US 20020174427A1
• Filed: 10/30/2001
• Published: 11/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Auto Tech Group LLC
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimotani, Mitsuo, Kohno, Atsushi, Uekawa, Akio, Asai, Yosuke, Ozaki, Minoru
• Granted Patent: US 7,454,545 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/30
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3641 Personalized guidance, e.g. limited guidance on previously travelled routes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/441 Acquiring end-user identification , e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/462 Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/475 End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. personal identification number [PIN], preference data

Abstract

In an information distribution device for supporting the individual-adaptive system, when a car navigation system 1 is employed as an individual-adaptive system, the system is constituted of an individual identification section 12 which can be connected to a portable cellular phone 5, enables entry of a portable cellular phone number from the portable cellular phone 5, and determines a setting status of a device in accordance with the input phone number; and an operation control section 11 which controls the setting status of the device in accordance with the setting status determined by the individual identification section 12.

Claims

1. An individual-adaptive system comprising:

an individual identification section which can be connected to an individual identification information generator having individual identification information, enables entry of individual identification information from the individual identification information generator, and determines a setting status of a device in accordance with the input individual identification information; and

an operation control section which controls the setting status of the device on the basis of the setting status determined by the individual identification section.

2. The individual-adaptive system according to claim 1, wherein the individual identification section has storage means for storing individual identification information and the setting status of the system corresponding to the individual identification information, and compares the individual identification information entered from the individual identification information generator with the individual identification information stored in the storage means, thereby determining as the setting status of the system a setting status corresponding to a matched individual identification information.

3. The individual-adaptive system according to claim 2, further comprising means for adding to or changing the individual identification information stored in the storage means or the setting status of a device corresponding to the individual identification information.

4. The individual-adaptive system according to claim 2, wherein a setting status of a device corresponding to individual identification information stored in the storage means is stored by means of a setting status identification code for specifying one from a plurality of predetermined setting statuses of the device.

5. The individual-adaptive system according to claim 1, further comprising communications means capable of establishing communication with an information distribution device which stores individual identification information and setting information about a device corresponding to the individual identification information;

and wherein the individual identification section transmits, to the information distribution device by way of the communications means, individual identification information entered from the individual identification information generator and receives, from the information distribution device, setting information about a device corresponding to the individual identification information, thereby determining the setting status of the device.

6. The individual-adaptive system according to claim 1, wherein the individual identification section can be connected to an individual identification information generator having individual identification information and communications means;

transmits individual identification information entered from the individual identification information generator to an information distribution device which stores individual identification information and setting information about a device corresponding to the individual identification information, byway of the communications means of the individual identification information generator; and

receives setting information about a device corresponding to the individual identification information from the information distribution device, thereby determining the setting status of the device.

9. The individual-adaptive system according to claim 5 or 8, wherein the system has device type identification information;

outputs the device type identification information to the individual identification information generator or the information distribution device; and

acquires setting information about a device corresponding to the device type identification information from the individual identification information generator or the information distribution device.

10. The individual-adaptive system according to claim 5 or 8, wherein only required setting information is extracted from setting information entered from the individual identification information generator or the information distribution device.

7. An individual-adaptive system comprising:

an input section, which can be connected to an individual identification information generator having stored therein individual identification information and setting information about a device; and

which inputs the setting information from the individual identification information generator; and

an operation control section for controlling the setting status of the device in accordance with the entered setting information.

8. An individual-adaptive system comprising:

an input/output section which can be connected to an individual identification information generator having individual identification information and communications means;

issues an instruction for sending the individual identification information, to an information distribution device which stores individual identification information and setting information about a device corresponding to the individual identification information; and

inputs into the individual identification information generator setting information about the device acquired from the information distribution device; and

an operation control section for controlling the setting status of the device on the basis of the entered setting information.

11. An information distribution device comprising:

storage means for storing individual identification information and setting information about an individual-adaptive system corresponding to the individual identification information;

receiving means for receiving individual identification information from the individual-adaptive system;

reading means for comparing the received individual identification information with the individual identification information stored in the storage means and for reading from the storage means setting information corresponding to matched individual identification information; and

transmission means for transmitting the read setting information to the individual-adaptive system.

12. The information distribution device according to claim 11, wherein the receiving means receives, from the individual-adaptive system, device type identification information about the individual-adaptive system and individual identification information;

and reading means reads from storage means setting information corresponding to the device type identification information and individual identification information.

13. An individual-adaptive system comprising:

an individual identification section which can be connected to an individual identification information generator having individual identification information, enables entry of individual identification information from the individual identification information generator, and determines a setting status of an in-vehicle device in accordance with the input individual identification information; and

an operation control section which controls the setting status of the in-vehicle device on the basis of the setting status set by the individual identification section.