VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20130238190A1
• Filed: 11/24/2011
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yasuda, Toshihiro
• Application Number:
  US13/988,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20130238190A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/592 Data transfer involving external databases
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/592 External database involved
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• 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 8/60 Software deployment

Abstract

A vehicle-mounted application management device manages an application that is executed by an information terminal mounted in a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted application management device comprises a management unit for detecting a vehicle state that is the state of the vehicle. The management unit is configured to manage, on the basis of the detected vehicle state, the on-off of at least one of a transmission path of input information given through the execution of the application and a transmission path of output information output through the execution of the application.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted application management device for managing an application that is executed in an information terminal mounted in a vehicle, the vehicle-mounted application management device comprising a management unit, wherein

the management unit is configured to detect a vehicle state, which is a state of the vehicle, and to manage, based on the detected vehicle state, on-off of at least one of a transmission path of input information that is assigned at execution of the application and a transmission path of output information that is output at execution of the application,

the management unit includes a list in which applications confirmed to include a built-in travel restriction function so as to properly operate in the information terminal are registered,

the management unit is configured to update the list by receiving the updated list from outside or receiving a signal for updating the list from outside, and

the management unit is configured to close the transmission path for an application not registered in the list.

2. The vehicle-mounted application management device according to claim 1, wherein

an output device for converting the output information into perceivable information and outputting the converted output information is mounted in the vehicle, and

the management unit is configured to manage the on-off of the transmission path of the output information to the output device.

3. The vehicle-mounted application management device according to claim 1, wherein

the input information is assigned to the application, and

the management unit is configured to manage the on-off of the transmission path of the input information assigned to the application.

4. The vehicle-mounted application management device according to claim 1, wherein the management unit and the information terminal are integrally provided.

5. The vehicle-mounted application management device according to claim 1, wherein the information terminal is configured to be externally connected to the management unit.

6. The vehicle-mounted application management device according to claim 1, wherein

the management unit includes a list in which applications confirmed to properly operate in the information terminal are registered, and

the management unit is configured to manage the on-off of the transmission pat for applications not registered in the list.

7. The vehicle-mounted application management device according to claim 1, wherein the detected vehicle state is a running speed of the vehicle or a stopped state of the vehicle.

8. The vehicle-mounted application management device according to claim 1, wherein the application is delivered to the vehicle from outside.

9. A vehicle-mounted application management method for managing an application that is executed in an information terminal mounted in a vehicle, the vehicle-mounted application management method comprising:

registering applications confirmed to include a built-in travel restriction function so as to properly operate in the information terminal in a list;

updating the list by receiving the updated list from outside or receiving a signal for updating the list from outside;

acquiring a vehicle state that is a state of the vehicle; and

closing a transmission path for an application not registered in the list to manage on-off of at least one of a transmission path of input information that is assigned at execution of the application and a transmission path of output information that is output at execution of the application.

10. The vehicle-mounted application management method according to claim 9, wherein

an output device for converting the output information into perceivable information and outputting the converted output information is mounted in the vehicle, and

managing the on-off of the transmission path is managing the on-off of the transmission path of the output information to the output device.

11. The vehicle-mounted application management method according to claim 9, wherein

the input information is assigned to the application, and

managing the on-off of the transmission path is managing the on-off of the transmission path of the input information assigned to the application.

12. The vehicle-mounted application management method according to claim 9,

wherein a state where the application about the transmission path, the on-off of which is managed, is being run maintained during the running of the vehicle.

13. The vehicle-mounted application management method according to claim 9, wherein acquiring the vehicle state is acquiring a running speed of the vehicle or whether or not the vehicle is in a stopped state as the acquired vehicle state.