VEHICLE-MOUNTED TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20190315297A1
• Filed: 04/05/2019
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: YAMADA, Takuji, FUJIKI, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 11,077,810 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/037 for occupant comfort , e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2081 combined with personal settings of other vehicle devices, e.g. mirrors, seats, steering wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/246 characterised by the challenge triggering
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/08 Interaction between the driver and the control system

Abstract

In a vehicle-mounted terminal device configured to be mounted on a vehicle and capable of communicating with a server device, a communication unit transmits identification information of a driver of the vehicle to the server device and receives personal setting information, indicating a setting state of a vehicle-mounted apparatus, transmitted from the server device and related to the identification information of the driver. A setting unit makes setting of a vehicle-mounted apparatus on the vehicle based on the personal setting information received at the communication unit. When the authentication of the driver is completed and when a power supply of the vehicle is turned on, the communication unit receives personal setting information for a vehicle-mounted apparatus, transmitted from the server device and related to the identification information of the driver.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted terminal device configured to be mounted on a vehicle and capable of communicating with a server device, the vehicle-mounted terminal device comprising:

an identification information acquirer configured to acquire identification information of a driver of the vehicle;

a communication unit configured to transmit the identification information of the driver of the vehicle to the server device and to receive personal setting information, indicating a setting state of a vehicle-mounted apparatus, transmitted from the server device and related to the identification information of the driver; and

a setting unit configured to make setting of a vehicle-mounted apparatus on the vehicle on the basis of the personal setting information received at the communication unit, wherein,

when the authentication of the driver is completed and when a power supply of the vehicle is turned on, the communication unit transmits the identification information of the driver of the vehicle to the server device and receives personal setting information for a vehicle-mounted apparatus, transmitted from the server device and related to the identification information of the driver.

2. The vehicle-mounted terminal device of claim 1, wherein, when personal setting information for a vehicle-mounted apparatus cannot be received from the server device, the setting unit makes setting of the vehicle-mounted apparatus on the basis of personal setting information stored in a portable terminal device of the driver or in the vehicle-mounted terminal device.

3. The vehicle-mounted terminal device of claim 1, wherein, when the vehicle type related to personal setting information for a vehicle-mounted apparatus received at the communication unit is different from the vehicle type of the vehicle provided with the vehicle-mounted terminal device, the setting unit adjusts the personal setting information according to the vehicle type of the vehicle provided with the vehicle-mounted terminal device and makes setting of the vehicle-mounted apparatus on the basis of the adjusted setting information for the vehicle-mounted apparatus.

6. The vehicle-mounted terminal device of claim 2, wherein, when the vehicle type related to personal setting information for a vehicle-mounted apparatus received at the communication unit is different from the vehicle type of the vehicle provided with the vehicle-mounted terminal device, the setting unit adjusts the personal setting information according to the vehicle type of the vehicle provided with the vehicle-mounted terminal device and makes setting of the vehicle-mounted apparatus on the basis of the adjusted setting information for the vehicle-mounted apparatus.

4. A server device capable of communicating with a vehicle-mounted terminal device, the server device comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive personal setting information indicating a setting state of a vehicle-mounted apparatus and to also receive identification information of a driver; and

a retaining unit configured to retain personal setting information, indicating a setting state of a vehicle-mounted apparatus, related to the identification information of the driver, wherein,

upon reception of the identification information of the driver from the vehicle-mounted terminal device, the communication unit transmits personal setting information related to the identification information of the driver to the vehicle-mounted terminal device.

5. A terminal device capable of communicating with a server device, the terminal device comprising:

an identification information acquirer configured to acquire identification information of a driver of a vehicle; and

a communication unit configured to transmit the identification information of the driver of the vehicle to the server device and to be able to receive, when the authentication of the driver is completed and when a power supply of the vehicle is turned on, personal setting information, indicating a setting state of a vehicle-mounted apparatus, transmitted from the server device and related to the identification information of the driver.