System for using at least one mobile terminal device in a motor vehicle

• US 20070291664A1
• Filed: 06/13/2007
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: Weyl, Daniel, Steinberg, Karl-Ernst
• Granted Patent: US 8,594,654 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3661 Guidance output on an external device, e.g. car radio
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3688 Systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices (not client-server), e.g. detachable faceplates, key fobs or multiple output screens
• 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 1/6091 including a wireless interface

Abstract

A system for using at least one mobile terminal in a motor vehicle, such as a passenger automobile or a two-wheeled vehicle in particular, having at least one mobile terminal, a display device situated in the vehicle, an operating device provided in the vehicle, and a communication interface between the vehicle and the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal and/or a terminal integration device provided in the vehicle be provided with a terminal sequence controller, which calls up an operating and/or display interface on the vehicle display device for operating functions and/or software applications of the mobile terminal and is operated via the vehicle operating device.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a mobile terminal; and

a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle comprising

a display device;

an operating device; and

a communication interface that couples the motor vehicle and the mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal comprises a terminal sequence controller arranged to call-up an operating and/or display interface on the display device for operating functions and/or software applications of the mobile terminal and is operated via the vehicle operating device.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is a mobile telephone, a PDA or personal digital assistant, a notebook, or another mobile computer.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal communicates with the terminal integration device via an Internet protocol (IP protocol).

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal further comprises a software application that is made useable, via the operating and/or display interface, for Internet browsing, entertainment, telephone, radio, TV, mobile office, messaging, navigation, games, and/or networking, such as Bluetooth, WLAN, GPRS, and/or UMTS.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the operating and/or display interface called up by the terminal sequence controller on the terminal display device is adapted in relation to the corresponding operating interface of the mobile terminal to the situation in the vehicle, in particular so that it is more easily understandable and/or more easily operable.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the terminal sequence controller causes a selection and/or a compression and/or a more easily viewable design, in particular a distribution onto multiple menus, to adapt the operating interface to the driving situation, in relation to the information which the operating and/or display interface of the mobile terminal has.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the menu design and/or menu control of the operating and/or display interface for operating functions and/or applications of the mobile terminal is speed-dependent and is more easily understandable and/or more easily operable at a second speed of the vehicle which is higher than a first speed.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein the selection and/or compression and/or more easily viewable design is oriented to the load of the driver of the motor vehicle, which is particularly ascertained on the basis of sensors on the vehicle and/or on the basis of traffic information transmitted into the vehicle.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein a vehicle sequence controller provided in the vehicle takes over the control of the vehicle display device and/or the control of the vehicle operating device in order to call up another operating and/or display interface, which is oriented in particular to the status of the vehicle and/or to the traffic situation, in particular in the event of an important message of the vehicle electronics, instead of the operating and/or display interface called up by the terminal sequence controller.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal has a vehicle sequence controller that allows the mobile terminal to at least partially assumes a vehicle-specific function, including a driver assistance system and cooperates with sensors attached to the vehicle in particular.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal sequence controller has a Java application, by which independence from the operating system and/or from the type of the terminal is particularly achieved.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the first menus, which are used to operate units of the vehicle and are shown on the display device of the vehicle, are generated by a data processing device provided in the vehicle, and the second menus, which are used to operate the mobile terminal, are generated by the mobile terminal and/or the terminal integration device provided in the vehicle.