Vehicle Device

• US 20130079951A1
• Filed: 09/22/2011
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Brickman, Boaz M.
• Application Number:
  US13/240,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20130079951A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0244 with logic circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0273 taking into account user data, e.g. knee height or physical state
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2220/10 using a database
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2220/20 using a deterministic algorithm
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2230/20 Wireless data transmission

Abstract

A vehicle actuation device includes a wireless communication device configured to communicate with a remote mobile apparatus via a communication network, an actuator configured to actuate one or more appliances in a vehicle, and a processor configured to resolve a position of the remote mobile apparatus via the wireless communication device. The processor is further configured to control the actuator as a function of parameters. The parameters include a distance threshold of the remote mobile apparatus relative to the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle actuation device comprising:

a wireless communication device configured to communicate with a remote mobile apparatus via a communication network;

an actuator configured to actuate one or more appliances in a vehicle;

a processor configured to resolve a position of the remote mobile apparatus via said wireless communication device, said processor being further configured to control said actuator as a function of parameters,

wherein said parameters comprise a distance threshold of said remote mobile apparatus relative to said vehicle.

2. A vehicle actuation device according to claim 1, wherein the remote mobile apparatus comprises a mobile telephone.

3. A vehicle actuation device according to claim 2, wherein the wireless communication device is configured to communicate on a wireless telephone network, and wherein the processor is further configured to trigger location-based services on said telephone network to determine the position of said remote mobile apparatus.

4. A vehicle actuation device according to claim 1, wherein the remote mobile apparatus comprises a tactile communication device.

5. A vehicle actuation device according to claim 4, wherein the wireless communication device is configured to communicate on a wireless telephone network, and wherein the processor is further configured to trigger location-based services on said telephone network to determine the position of said remote mobile apparatus.

6. An actuation system comprising a remote mobile apparatus and a vehicle fitted with a vehicle actuation device according to claim 1, said system further comprising a storage device configured for storing the position of said remote mobile apparatus and which the processor is configured to interrogate for resolving the distance threshold of said remote mobile apparatus relative to said vehicle.

7. An actuation system according to claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to trigger via the communication network a position update of the remote mobile apparatus.

8. A method of actuating at least one apparatus in a vehicle, comprising requesting position information from a remote mobile apparatus via a communication network on which the remote mobile apparatus operates;

and actuating at least one actuator in said vehicle as a function of parameters, said parameters comprising a distance threshold of said remote mobile apparatus relative to said vehicle.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the request for position information comprises a communication message to the remote mobile apparatus via the communication network for the transmission of its position information.