METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WARNING MESSAGE OF SMART KEY SYSTEM

• US 20140159882A1
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai AutoEver Corp. (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd. (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Koh, Dong Woo
• Granted Patent: US 9,868,417 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/425.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/205 Mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/00 Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/102 a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner

Abstract

A method for displaying a warning message of a smart key system may include: a first step in which a control part of a smart key system generates two or more warning messages corresponding to two or more abnormalities/warnings, when the two or more abnormalities/warnings occur; a second step in which the control part repetitively and sequentially renews and inputs the two or more warning messages to a message queue buffer and controls the message queue buffer to buffer and output the two or more warning messages such that the two or more warning messages are circularly displayed on a display part; and a third step in which the control part ends the circular buffering operation for the two or more warning messages through the message queue buffer, when message renewal times for the two or more warning messages expire.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a warning message of a smart key system, comprising:

a first step in which a control part of a smart key system generates two or more warning messages corresponding to two or more abnormalities/warnings, when the two or more abnormalities/warnings occur;

a second step in which the control part repetitively and sequentially renews and inputs the two or more warning messages to a message queue buffer and controls the message queue buffer to buffer and output the two or more warning messages such that the two or more warning messages are circularly displayed on a display part; and

a third step in which the control part ends the circular buffering operation for the two or more warning messages through the message queue buffer, when message renewal times for the two or more warning messages expire.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the first step, each of the two or more abnormalities/warnings comprises any one of a warning message for abnormality/warning for a smart key unit and the smart key system and a warning message for abnormalities/warnings for operating systems of a vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein in the first step, each of the warning messages corresponding to the two or more abnormalities/warnings has different message renewal times depending on the characteristics of the abnormalities/warnings.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein in the second step, when a new warning message is added as a new abnormality/warning occurs, the control part repetitively and sequentially renews and inputs the new warning message as well as the two or more warning messages to the message queue buffer and controls the message queue buffer to buffer and output the warning messages.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein when the new warning message is added as the new abnormality/warning occurs, the control part preferentially inputs the new warning message to the message queue buffer, before the two or more warning messages.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein in the third step, when the message renewal times for the two or more warning messages expire, the control part repetitively renews and inputs only the new warning message to the message queue buffer and controls the message queue buffer to buffer and output the new warning message, for a predetermined time.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein in the second step, the two or more warning messages outputted from the message queue buffer are transmitted through any one data transmission method among controller area network (CAN) communication, RS232C communication, RS422 communication, RS485 communication, USB communication, Bluetooth communication, and Ethernet communication.