Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle mobile communication system
First Claim
1. A method for automatically controlling a vehicle mobile communication system that facilitates communication external to the vehicle from one or more portable communication units communicating with the vehicle mobile communication system, the method comprising:
- measuring a geographic position of the vehicle;
referencing information stored in a database regarding at least one of a plurality of geographic reference points in the vicinity of the measured geographic position of the vehicle, information associated with each of the plurality of geographic reference points stored in the database including at least a range from each geographic reference point at which output from the vehicle mobile communication system interferes with at least one other communication system;
comparing the measured geographic position of the vehicle with the referenced geographic reference information;
determining that output from the vehicle mobile communication system should be disabled based on the comparison; and
disabling the vehicle mobile communication system automatically based on the determination.
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Abstract
Disclosed systems and methods automatically control a vehicle mobile communication system that is usable to facilitate communication external to a vehicle from one or more portable communication units with which the vehicle communication system is in communication. Disclosed systems and methods incorporate devices and/or steps for measuring a geographic position of a vehicle; referencing information stored in a database regarding areas in the vicinity of a plurality of geographic reference points at which output from the vehicle mobile communication system may interfere with a fixed ground-based communication system; comparing the geographic position of the vehicle with the stored information and determining that output from the vehicle mobile communication system should be modified and automatically disabling/re-enabling the vehicle mobile communication system based on this determination.
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26 Claims
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1. A method for automatically controlling a vehicle mobile communication system that facilitates communication external to the vehicle from one or more portable communication units communicating with the vehicle mobile communication system, the method comprising:
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measuring a geographic position of the vehicle; referencing information stored in a database regarding at least one of a plurality of geographic reference points in the vicinity of the measured geographic position of the vehicle, information associated with each of the plurality of geographic reference points stored in the database including at least a range from each geographic reference point at which output from the vehicle mobile communication system interferes with at least one other communication system; comparing the measured geographic position of the vehicle with the referenced geographic reference information; determining that output from the vehicle mobile communication system should be disabled based on the comparison; and disabling the vehicle mobile communication system automatically based on the determination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 26)
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5. The method of claim I, wherein the stored database also includes information regarding the height of the terrain above a standard modified to include a clearance above the height of the terrain that is imposed by a local regulatory scheme designed to avoid interference between ground-based communications systems and vehicle mobile communications systems.
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8. The method of claim 8, wherein the bitmap altitude picture includes a level of a pixel corresponding to an altitude, an x-position of the pixel corresponding to a longitude of the pixel geographic position, and a y-position of the pixel corresponding to a latitude of the pixel geographic position.
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12. A control system for automatically controlling a vehicle mobile communication system, the vehicle mobile communication system facilitating communication external to a vehicle from one or more portable communication units communicating with the vehicle mobile communication system, the control system comprising:
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a measuring device for measuring a geographic position of a vehicle; a control device that is usable to automatically control the operation of the vehicle mobile communication system; at least one storage device that stores a database of information regarding a plurality of geographic reference points in at least an intended operating region of the vehicle, information associated with each of the plurality of geographic reference points stored in the database including a range from each geographic reference point at which output from the vehicle mobile communication system is predetermined to interfere with at least one other communication system; a processing device that determines that the vehicle mobile communication system should be disabled based on a comparison of a measured geographic reference position of the vehicle and the stored information regarding at least one of the plurality of geographic reference points in the vicinity of the measured geographic reference position of the vehicle; and a system disabling device that automatically disables the vehicle communication system based on the determination. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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