CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20130096737A1
• Filed: 06/22/2011
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Suganuma, Hideaki, Gotoh, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,031,715 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/02 electric constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/00 Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles B60W60/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance

Abstract

Disclosed is a control device that changes control content of control means mounted in a vehicle, including: schedule acquisition means for acquiring a schedule relating to the vehicle; and change date and time generation means for estimating a time when the vehicle is not in use on the basis of the schedule acquired by the schedule acquisition means, and for generating and outputting change date and time when the control content is changed, according to the time.

Claims

1-5. -5. (canceled)

6. A control device that changes control content of control means mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

schedule acquisition means for acquiring a schedule relating to the vehicle; and

change date and time generation means for estimating a time when the vehicle is not in use on the basis of the schedule acquired by the schedule acquisition means, and for generating and outputting change date and time when the control content is changed, according to the time.

7. The control device according to claim 6,

wherein the control means is an electronic control unit, and

wherein change in the control content of the electronic control unit is acquired through an electric wave.

8. The control device according to claim 6,

wherein the schedule acquisition means acquires the schedule from a terminal outside the vehicle.

9. The control device according to claim 6,

wherein the schedule is an activity plan of a user who owns the vehicle.

10. The control device according to claim 6,

wherein the schedule includes at least one of a usage situation, a usage environment and a usage plan of the vehicle.

11. The control device according to claim 6, further comprising:

time estimation means for determining whether the vehicle is parked at a location which cannot be reached by electric waves,

wherein the time estimation means estimates, in a case where it is determined that the vehicle is parked at the location which cannot be reached by the electric waves, a time when the vehicle is stopped at the location which cannot be reached by the electric waves from the schedule.

12. A control device that changes control content of control unit mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

schedule acquisition unit acquiring a schedule relating to the vehicle; and

change date and time generation unit estimating a time when the vehicle is not in use on the basis of the schedule acquired by the schedule acquisition unit, and for generating and outputting change date and time when the control content is changed, according to the time.

13. The control device according to claim 12,

wherein the control unit is an electronic control unit, and

wherein change in the control content of the electronic control unit is acquired through an electric wave.

14. The control device according to claim 12,

wherein the schedule acquisition unit acquires the schedule from a terminal outside the vehicle.

15. The control device according to claim 12,

wherein the schedule is an activity plan of a user who owns the vehicle.

16. The control device according to claim 12,

wherein the schedule includes at least one of a usage situation, a usage environment and a usage plan of the vehicle.

17. The control device according to claim 12, further comprising:

time estimation unit determining whether the vehicle is parked at a location which cannot be reached by electric waves,

wherein the time estimation unit estimates, in a case where it is determined that the vehicle is parked at the location which cannot be reached by the electric waves, a time when the vehicle is stopped at the location which cannot be reached by the electric waves from the schedule.