DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INCOMING VIDEO STREAM WHILE DRIVING

• US 20150310577A1
• Filed: 10/11/2013
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Cabasse, Gilbert, Bonnaud, Fabrice
• Granted Patent: US 10,176,547 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 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: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

Various embodiments provide a method and a communication device (2) for controlling incoming video stream in a vehicle (1). Embodiments comprise acquiring at said communication device (2) information related to the vehicle, and enabling or disabling the display of said video stream on said communication device (2) depending on said acquired information.

Claims

1. A method for, within a vehicle, controlling the display of an incoming video stream on the screen of a communication device adapted to receive said video stream, said method comprising:

receiving at said communication device said video stream,

acquiring at said communication device information related to the vehicle,

enabling or disabling the display of said video stream on said communication device depending on said acquired information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein information related to the vehicle is acquired by said communication device through communicating with a calculator embedded in the vehicle which is connected to vehicle sensors.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said communication device is embedded in the vehicle, preferably into the dashboard of the vehicle.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said communication device is a mobile device, such as a smartphone, that may be removably attached to the dashboard of the vehicle.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said communication device includes its own information acquisition means, for acquiring said information related to the vehicle.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the acquiring information comprises detecting a signal related to the running state and/or speed of the vehicle.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the disabling the display of said video stream includes disabling said display for the driver of the vehicle, while enabling said display for an eventual passenger.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, said communication device being adapted to play an audio stream, said method comprises also the enabling playing said audio stream while displaying of said video stream is disabled.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said video stream is part of an incoming multimedia content which also comprises said audio stream.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said method also comprises the activating or deactivating an operating mode, named driver mode, onto the communication device, for enabling or disabling the control of displaying said video stream on the screen of said communication device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein acquiring at said communication device information related to the vehicle, comprises

detecting if a communication, such as Bluetooth®

connection, can be established between the mobile device and a system embedded in the vehicle communicating with sensors of the vehicle,

And wherein, in case of a positive answer, acquiring supplemental information related to the vehicle such as car speed, passenger presence, or distance with preceding car.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein, in case of a negative response, said method comprises the enabling the display of said video stream on said communication device.

13. A computer-executable program product comprising computer-executable instructions for performing a method according to claim 1 when the program is run on a communication device capable of executing said computer-executable program product, for, within a vehicle, controlling the display of an incoming video stream on the screen of said communication device which is adapted to receive said video stream.

14. A communication device comprising a screen and programmed for performing a method according to claim 1 for controlling the display of an incoming video stream on said screen.

15. A vehicle including a calculator which is connected to vehicle sensors for acquiring information related to the vehicle, said vehicle also comprising the communication device of claim 14 for controlling the display of an incoming video stream on said screen, said communication device being adapted to communicate with said calculator.