Vehicle mounted user interface device and vehicle mounted navigation system

• US 20060173616A1
• Filed: 11/17/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Isao, Kugumiya, Mamoru, Ishii, Keisuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,065,081 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/211
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network

Abstract

Data is shared between a vehicle mounted navigation device and a vehicle mounted user interface device and among a plurality of vehicle mounted user interface devices. In a first location free display that allows a plurality of users to separately have access to the navigation device, external data obtained from the navigation device or from another location free display and its own user data are saved and managed, and shared with the navigation device and the another location free display. It is possible to utilize the external data not owned by itself or the user data of another person with the navigation device or the another location free display and perform a navigation process in an inner space of the vehicle efficiently.

Claims

2. The vehicle mounted user interface device according to claim 1, wherein the data management unit merges and sorts the external data and the user data and displays the merged and sorted data on a display device.

6-1. The vehicle mounted user interface device according to claim 1, wherein the data is Point Of Interest (POI) data and/or route data.

7. A vehicle mounted navigation system, comprising

a vehicle mounted navigation device;

and

a vehicle mounted user interface device through which a plurality of users separately have access to the vehicle mounted navigation device, the vehicle mounted user interface device including;

a transmitter-receiver operable to transmit data to or to receive data from the vehicle mounted navigation device by gaining access to the vehicle mounted navigation device; and

a data management unit operable to save and manage external data received from the vehicle mounted navigation device or from another vehicle mounted user interface device and its own user data and to share the external data and the user data with the vehicle mounted navigation device or the another vehicle mounted user interface device.

external data and the user data in accordance with a security level set up to the external data and the user data, even if the user authentication processing device authenticates the normal user.

7-2. A vehicle mounted navigation system, comprising

a vehicle mounted navigation device;

and

a vehicle mounted user interface device through which a plurality of users separately have access to the vehicle mounted navigation device, the vehicle mounted user interface device including;

a transmitter-receiver operable to transmit data to or to receive data from the vehicle mounted navigation device by gaining access to the vehicle mounted navigation device; and

a data management unit operable to save and manage external data received from the vehicle mounted navigation device or from another vehicle mounted user interface device and its own user data and to share the external data and the user data with the vehicle mounted navigation device or the another vehicle mounted user interface device.