In-vehicle email incoming notice unit and email transmission unit

• US 20040254715A1
• Filed: 06/08/2004
• Published: 12/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Yamada, Kazunao
• Application Number:
  US10/863,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20040254715A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/117
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails

Abstract

A car navigation device mounted in a vehicle is capable of notifying a driver of an email incoming. Here, information relating to a traveling speed of the vehicle is retrieved. Based on the retrieved information, when the traveling speed of the vehicle is greater than a predetermined speed, notifying the driver of the email incoming is prohibited. This decreases a risk when the driver is notified of the email incoming while driving the vehicle.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle email incoming notice unit provided in a vehicle, comprising:

information retrieving means for retrieving information relating to a risk when a driver of the vehicle is given a notice of email incoming; and

notice restricting means for restricting the notice of email incoming to the driver to decrease the risk based on the information retrieved by the information retrieving means.

2. The in-vehicle email incoming notice unit of claim 1,

wherein the information retrieving means retrieves the information relating to the risk from a vehicle travel control unit that maintains a distance between the vehicle and a vehicle ahead.

3. The in-vehicle email incoming notice unit of claim 1,

wherein the information relating to the risk includes information relating to a distance between the vehicle and a vehicle ahead.

4. An in-vehicle email incoming notice unit provided in a vehicle, comprising:

information retrieving means for retrieving information relating to a traveling speed of the vehicle; and

notice restricting means for restricting a notice of email incoming to the driver when the traveling speed of the vehicle is greater than a given speed based on the information retrieved by the information retrieving means.

5. An in-vehicle email incoming notice unit provided in a vehicle, comprising:

information retrieving means for retrieving information relating to an arrival of the vehicle to a position; and

notice restricting means for restricting a notice of email incoming to the driver when the vehicle does not reach the position based on the information retrieved by the information retrieving means.

6. The in-vehicle email incoming notice unit of claim 5,

wherein the information retrieving means designates a given position based on position information included in a given email that comes in, and

wherein, when the vehicle does not reach the given position, the notice restricting means restricts, to the driver, a notice of email incoming pertinent to the given email that includes the position information.

7. An email transmission unit that sends an email to an in-vehicle email incoming notice unit provided in a vehicle, comprising:

adding means for causing the email to include position information; and

transmitting means for transmitting the email that includes the position information, wherein, when the vehicle does not reach a position based on the position information included in the email that comes in, the in-vehicle email incoming notice unit restricts, to a driver of the vehicle, a notice of email incoming pertinent to the email.