Apparatus and method for detecting leaving of cellular telephone

• US 20030224805A1
• Filed: 05/23/2003
• Published: 12/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Suenaga, Shoji
• Granted Patent: US 7,239,869 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

There is provided a Bluetooth module part for establishing wireless connection to a cellular telephone having a Bluetooth function and a microcomputer for determining that the cellular telephone has been left when connection to the cellular telephone has continued for a certain time, and the cellular telephone is provided with any one of a function of providing unique information identifying the self and a function of obtaining present position information of the self, and there is provided the microcomputer for sending at least one of a device ID and the present position information to a preset communication destination through the cellular telephone when the microcomputer determines that the cellular telephone has been left.

Claims

1. An apparatus for detecting leaving of a cellular telephone having at least one of a function of providing unique information identifying the cellular telephone and a function of obtaining present position information of the cellular telephone, the apparatus comprising:

a connection section adapted to establish wireless connection to a cellular telephone having a short-haul wireless communication function; and

a leaving determination section adapted to determine that the cellular telephone has been left when connection to the cellular telephone has continued for a certain time; and

a control section adapted to send at least one of the unique information and the present position information to a preset communication destination through the cellular telephone when the leaving determination section determines that the cellular telephone has been left.

2. An apparatus for detecting leaving of a cellular telephone, comprising:

a connection section adapted to establish wireless connection between a vehicle-mounted device that the vehicle-mounted device having at least one of a function of providing any one of unique information identifying the vehicle-mounted device and vehicle information identifying the vehicle and a function of obtaining present position information of the vehicle, and a cellular telephone having a short-haul wireless function;

a detection section adapted to detect that an accessory switch of a vehicle became an off state;

a leaving determination section adapted to determine that the cellular telephone has been left inside the vehicle when connection to the cellular telephone has continued for a certain time since the off state of the accessory switch was detected by the detection section; and

a control section adapted to send at least one of the unique information, the vehicle information and the present position information obtained by establishment of the wireless connection to a preset communication destination through the cellular telephone when the leaving determination section determines that the cellular telephone has been left.

3. A method for detecting leaving of a cellular telephone, comprising:

determining that the cellular telephone has been left when wireless connection established to a cellular telephone providing a short-haul wireless communication function and any one of functions of providing unique information identifying the cellular telephone and obtaining present position information of the cellular telephone has continued for a certain time; and

transmitting at least one of the unique information and the present position information to a preset communication destination.

4. A method for detecting leaving of a cellular telephone comprising:

determining that the cellular telephone has been left inside the vehicle when wireless connection between a cellular telephone having a short-haul wireless function and a vehicle-mounted device providing at least one of functions of providing any one of unique information identifying the self and vehicle information identifying a vehicle and obtaining present position information of the vehicle has continued for a certain time since an accessory switch of the vehicle became an off state; and

transmitting at least one of the unique information, the vehicle information and the present position information obtained by establishment of the wireless connection to a preset communication destination through the cellular telephone.