VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPARATUS CONTROL DEVICE AND PROGRAM

• US 20140058633A1
• Filed: 04/27/2012
• Published: 02/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ADC Technology Inc. (H.B. Fuller Co. (Indonesia))
• Original Assignee: ADC Technology Inc. (H.B. Fuller Co. (Indonesia))
• Inventors: Kuroda, Tatsumi, Usami, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US14/114,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20140058633A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/49
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00985 Control systems or circuits characterised by display or indicating devices, e.g. voice simulators characterised by the input of sound using a voice synthesizer B60H1/00757; B60H1/00978 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/143 Touch sensitive instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/146 Instrument input by gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/771 on the ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/785 on or in relation to the windshield or windows
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/788 on or in side pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/791 on or in the transmission tunnel or parking brake lever
• 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 35/26 using acoustic output
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/02 electric constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/08 electrically driven conjoint control of windscreen wiper motor and liquid supply of windscreen washer B60S1/482; conjoint control of windscreen wiper motor and means for cleaning parts o parts other than windscreens or front windows B60S1/56, B60S1/58, B60S1/606
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00

Abstract

A vehicle-mounted control device is provided with a touch detection unit and a control unit. The touch detection unit is provided corresponding to a vehicle-mounted apparatus to be controlled, and can detect a touch operation that is of a user and that relates to a function of the vehicle-mounted apparatus to be controlled. The control unit controls the vehicle-mounted apparatus on the basis of the touch operation of the user detected by the touch detection unit.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted apparatus control device comprising:

a touch detection unit that is provided corresponding to a vehicle-mounted apparatus to be controlled, and that can detect a touch operation of a user relating to a function of the vehicle-mounted apparatus to be controlled; and

a control unit that controls the vehicle-mounted apparatus on the basis of the touch operation of the user detected by the touch detection unit.

2. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the vehicle-mounted apparatus in a case where, on the basis of the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit, it is determined that the vehicle-mounted apparatus needs to be controlled.

3. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 2, further comprising a water-droplet presence determination unit that determines whether or not water droplets are present on an outer surface of a window,

wherein the vehicle-mounted apparatus includes a wiper device,

wherein the touch detection unit is provided so that a touch operation on an inner surface of the window can be detected, and

wherein the control unit controls the wiper device in a case where the touch operation is detected by the touch detection unit and by the water-droplet presence determination unit, it is determined that water droplets are present on the outer surface of the window.

4. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit controls the vehicle-mounted apparatus when a touch operation in a predetermined way is detected by the touch detection unit.

5. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 4,

wherein the vehicle-mounted apparatus includes a turning signal device,

wherein the touch detection unit is provided so that a touch operation on a steering wheel can be detected, and

wherein the control unit controls the turning signal device when a touch operation in a predetermined way is detected by the touch detection unit.

6. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 4,

wherein the vehicle-mounted apparatus includes an audio device,

wherein the touch detection unit is provided so that a touch operation on an area that corresponds to a speaker constituting the audio device can be detected, and

wherein the control unit controls the audio device when a touch operation in a predetermined way is detected by the touch detection unit.

7. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 4,

wherein the vehicle-mounted apparatus includes an air conditioning device,

wherein the touch detection unit is provided so that a touch operation on an area corresponding to an air outlet of the air conditioning device can be detected, and

wherein the control unit controls the air conditioning device when a touch operation in a predetermined way is detected by the touch detection unit.

8. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit determines a direction that is indicated by the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit, and controls the vehicle-mounted apparatus in accordance with the direction.

9. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 8,

wherein the vehicle-mounted apparatus includes a gearshift device,

wherein the touch detection unit is provided so that a touch operation on an area that corresponds to a shift position indicator indicating a shift position can be detected, and

wherein the control unit changes the shift position in accordance with the direction that is indicated by the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit.

10. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 8,

wherein the vehicle-mounted apparatus includes an audio device,

wherein the touch detection unit is provided so that a touch operation on an area that corresponds to a speaker constituting the audio device can be detected, and

wherein the control unit controls the audio device in accordance with the direction that is indicated by the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit.

11. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 8,

wherein the vehicle-mounted apparatus includes an air conditioning device,

wherein the touch detection unit is provided so that a touch operation on an area that corresponds to an air outlet of the air conditioning device can be detected, and

wherein the control unit controls the air conditioning device in accordance with the direction that is indicated by the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit.

12. The vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 1, further comprising a voice input unit that inputs voice of the user,

wherein the control unit controls the vehicle-mounted apparatus when a voice input through the voice input unit is applied in conjunction with the touch operation detected by the touch detection unit.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that records a computer program that performs the functions of the control unit provided in the vehicle-mounted apparatus control device according to claim 1.