INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NAVIGATION SYSTEM, AND DATA UPDATING METHOD

• US 20120094644A1
• Filed: 10/14/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Kazushige, Ozaki, Takahisa, Saito, Soichi, Matsushita, Suguru, Sakata, Ryuuji, Sasaki, Masao
• Granted Patent: US 8,660,546 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• 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 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a data storage portion that stores data records in which second data is associated with first data; a communicating portion that communicates with an external device; an updating portion that receives the data records from the external device and updates the data records; a screen controlling portion that displays one or more of the first data or the second data, and that receives a specifying operation specifying the first data; a determining portion that determines whether the information processing apparatus is in a state, in which control that uses the first data will be started in response to the screen controlling portion receiving the specifying operation; and a caching portion that caches the first data specified by the specifying operation separately from the data records stored in the data storage portion, when it is determined that the information processing apparatus is in the state.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a data storage portion that stores a plurality of data records in which second data is associated with first data;

a communicating portion that communicates with an external device;

an updating portion that receives the data records from the external device and updates the data records in the data storage portion;

a screen controlling portion that displays, on a screen, one or more of the first data or the second data read from the data storage portion, and that receives a specifying operation specifying the first data;

a determining portion that determines whether the information processing apparatus is in a state, in which control that uses the first data will be started in response to the screen controlling portion receiving the specifying operation; and

a caching portion that caches the first data specified by the specifying operation separately from the data records stored in the data storage portion, when it is determined by the determining portion that the information processing apparatus is in the state.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the updating portion finishes updating the data records in the data storage portion, the screen controlling portion displays an indication that the update is complete on the screen, regardless of whether the information processing apparatus is in the state.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the screen controlling portion is displaying a specified screen registered in advance, the determining portion determines that the information processing apparatus is in the state.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when it is determined by the determining portion that the information processing apparatus is in the state, the screen controlling portion continues to display the specified screen without updating the specified screen.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the data records are records of a phonebook in which the first data is phone number and the second data is name.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the specified screen is one of i) a first screen that displays one or more phone numbers for the name of one person, and that, in response to receiving one specifying operation, calls the phone number selected by the specifying operation, and ii) a second screen that displays one or more phone numbers registered in the information processing apparatus in advance, and that, in response to receiving one specifying operation, calls the phone number selected by the specifying operation.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the external device is a phone, and the specified screen is a third screen that displays one or more call history data of the phone making a call, the phone receiving a call, or the phone receiving a missed call, received from the external device, and that, in response to one specifying operation, calls a phone number in the call history data selected by the specifying operation.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the external device is a phone, and the specified screen is a fourth screen that displays e-mail data of e-mail that has been received by the phone and in which a phone number of a sender or a name associated with the phone number in the phonebook is displayed, received from the external device, and that, in response to receiving one specifying operation, calls a phone number selected by the specifying operation.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a communication controlling portion that makes a request to the phone to call a phone number that is the first data specified by the specifying operation, as the control that uses the first data.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the caching portion caches information displayed on the specified screen by the screen controlling portion when it is determined that the information processing apparatus is in the state.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the caching portion discards the cached information when the screen controlling portion receives an operation to stop displaying the specified screen, or an operation to switch the first data or the second data being displayed on the specified screen with other first data or second data.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communicating portion is a communication module that communicates with the external device according to a Bluetooth communication standard.

13. A navigation system comprising:

the information processing apparatus according to claim 1;

a position detecting portion that detects a position of the navigation system; and

a host position displaying portion that indicates the position of the navigation system on a map displayed on a screen.

14. A data updating method for an information processing apparatus that includes a data storage portion that stores a plurality of data records in which second data is associated with first data, the data updating method comprising:

communicating with an external device;

displaying one or more first data or second data read from the data storage portion on a screen and receiving a specifying operation that specifies the first data;

determining whether the information processing apparatus is in a state, in which control that uses the first data will be started in response to receiving the specifying operation;

caching the first data specified by the specifying operation separately from the data records stored in the data storage portion, when it is determined that the information processing apparatus is in the state; and

receiving the data records from the external device and updating the data records in the data storage portion.