MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL FOR VEHICLE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20160210157A1
• Filed: 11/12/2015
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Dae Sik
• Granted Patent: US 10,055,233 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/00 Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3296 by lowering the supply or operating voltage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1417 Boot up procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4401 Bootstrapping security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4406 Loading of operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4418 Suspend and resume; Hibernate and awake
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45545 Guest-host, i.e. hypervisor is an application program itself, e.g. VirtualBox
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A data processing method of a multimedia terminal for a vehicle includes booting, by an integration micom, a guest operation system according to a wakeup command received from a modem included in the multimedia terminal for the vehicle. The integration micom is physically independent from a main central processing unit (CPU). The method further includes interpreting a remote control command received from the modem by middleware executed by the guest operation system, and performing, by the multimedia terminal for the vehicle, a control operation according to the remote control command. A multimedia terminal for a vehicle is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A multimedia terminal for a vehicle, comprising:

a modem configured to receive a wakeup command and a remote control command from a remote center outside the multimedia terminal for the vehicle; and

an integration micom configured to boot a guest operating system according to the wakeup command, the integration micom comprising middleware executed by the guest operating system to interpret the remote control command, and configured to be physically independent from a main central processing unit (CPU),

wherein the multimedia terminal is configured to perform a control operation according to the remote control command.

2. The multimedia terminal according to claim 1, wherein the integration micom is configured to complete interpretation of the remote control command before booting of the main CPU by a host operating system is begun.

3. The multimedia terminal according to claim 1, wherein the integration micom is configured to, when the remote control command is a command for controlling a vehicle controller, power on the vehicle controller, control the vehicle controller to perform a charging or conditioning operation corresponding to the remote control command, and power off the vehicle controller.

4. The multimedia terminal according to claim 1, wherein the integration micom is configured to, when the remote control command is a command for controlling the main CPU, boot the main CPU by a host operating system, control the main CPU to perform a service operation corresponding to the remote control command, and power off the main CPU.

5. The multimedia terminal according to claim 1, wherein power of the main CPU and power of the integration micom are independently controlled.

6. The multimedia terminal according to claim 1, wherein the middleware is configured to interpret resulting data pertaining to a result obtained by performing the control operation to a format of data capable of being transmitted to the modem, transmit the interpreted resulting data to the modem, and power off the main CPU and the integration micom and allow the modem to enter a sleep mode.

7. The multimedia terminal according to claim 1, wherein the guest operating system is configured to share hardware of the multimedia terminal for the vehicle with a host operating system using a hypervisor as a software virtual platform.

8. The multimedia terminal according to claim 1, wherein:

the guest operating system is a real time operating system; and

the main CPU and the integration micom are included in one chip.

9. A multimedia terminal for a vehicle, comprising:

an integration micom configured to boot a guest operating system according to a wakeup command received from a vehicle controller, the integration micom comprising middleware executed by the guest operating system to interpret a remote control command received from the vehicle controller, and configured to be physically independent from a main central processing unit (CPU),

wherein the multimedia terminal is configured to perform a control operation according to the remote control command.

10. The multimedia terminal according to claim 9, wherein the integration micom is configured to complete interpretation of the remote control command before booting of the main CPU by a host operating system is begun.

11. The multimedia terminal according to claim 9, wherein the integration micom is configured to, when the remote control command is a command for controlling a vehicle controller, control the vehicle controller to perform a charging or conditioning operation corresponding to the remote control command, and power off the vehicle controller.

12. The multimedia terminal according to claim 9, wherein power of the main CPU and power of the integration micom are independently controlled.

13. The multimedia terminal according to claim 9, wherein the middleware is configured to interpret resulting data pertaining to a result obtained by performing the control operation to a format of data capable of being transmitted to the modem, transmit the interpreted resulting data to the modem, and power off the main CPU and the integration micom and allow the modem to enter a sleep mode.

14. The multimedia terminal according to claim 9, wherein the guest operating system is configured to share hardware of the multimedia terminal for the vehicle with a host operating system using a hypervisor as a software virtual platform.

15. The multimedia terminal according to claim 9, wherein:

the guest operating system is a real time operating system; and

the main CPU and the integration micom are included in one chip.