Wireless operating system

• US 7,912,502 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2006
• Issued: 03/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Omron Automotive Electronics Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Automotive Electronics Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Inventors: Ando, Tanichi, Mukaigawa, Shinichi, Kobayashi, Hideyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Danh C
• Application Number:
  US11/491,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20060261932A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,702 Days
• Field of Search: 455/557, 455/41.2, 455/569.2, 455/575.1, 370/328
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724098 Interfacing with an on-board device of a vehicle for hands-free speaking in vehicles H04M1/6075
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances

Abstract

A wireless operating system, which is used with a mobile telephone, for wirelessly operating an operated target, includes: an adapter including transmitting means for allowing operation information required for an operation of the operated target to be transmitted by short distance radio; a short distance wireless unit having receiving means for receiving the operation information and operating means for operating the operated target in accordance with the received operation information; and an operated target control unit. The adapter further includes: communication means capable of performing direct communication with the mobile telephone by being carried with the mobile telephone; and operation information generating means for generating operation information in accordance with portable communication terminal information acquired from the mobile telephone. Under the circumstances where a user carries the mobile telephone, it is possible to provide a wireless operating system in which various operated targets and the mobile telephone are wirelessly operated.

Claims

1. A wireless operating system for wirelessly operating a portable communication terminal, the system comprising:

a transmitting-end device including detecting means for detecting a state of a monitored target outside the transmitting-end device and a receiving-end device and transmitting means for allowing monitoring information indicating the state of the monitored target detected by the detecting means to be transmitted by short distance radio; and

the receiving-end device including receiving means for receiving the monitoring, operation information generating means for generating operation information for operating the portable communication terminal in accordance with the monitoring information received by the receiving means, and communication means for performing direct communication with the portable communication terminal by being carried with the portable communication terminal and transmitting the operation information to the portable communication terminal for transmitting, by the portable communication terminal to an outside of the transmitting-end device and the receiving-end device, the monitoring information transmitted received by the receiving-end device from the transmitting-end device via the short distance radio, the receiving end device being an adaptor separable from the portable communication terminal and configured to connect to the portable communication terminal,

wherein when the receiving-end device together with the portable communication terminal approaches the monitored target, the monitoring information is transmitted from the portable communication terminal to the outside of the transmitting-end device and the receiving-end device.

2. A wireless operating system for wirelessly operating a portable communication terminal, the system comprising:

a transmitting-end device including detecting means for detecting a state of a monitored target outside the transmitting-end device and a receiving-end device and transmitting means for allowing monitoring information indicating the state of the monitored target detected by the detecting means to be transmitted by short distance radio; and

the receiving-end device including receiving means for receiving the monitoring information, operation information generating means for generating operation information for operating the portable communication terminal in accordance with the monitoring information received by the receiving means, and communication means for performing direct communication with the portable communication terminal by being carried with the portable communication terminal and transmitting the operation information to the portable communication terminal for transmitting, by the portable communication terminal to an outside of the transmitting-end device and the receiving-end device, the monitoring information transmitted received by the receiving-end device from the transmitting-end device via the short distance radio,

wherein the monitored target comprises a vehicle,

wherein when the receiving-end device together with the portable communication terminal approaches the monitored target the monitoring information is transmitted from the portable communication terminal to the outside of the transmitting-end device and the receiving-end device.

3. A method for wirelessly operating a portable communication terminal in a wireless operating system, the method comprising:

detecting a state of a monitored target via a transmitting-end device, the monitored target being outside the transmitting-end device and a receiving-end device;

allowing, via the transmitting-end device, monitoring information indicating the state of the monitored target detected to be transmitted by short distance radio;

receiving the monitoring information via a receiving-end device;

generating, via the receiving-end device, operation information for operating the portable communication terminal in accordance with the monitoring information received;

performing, via the receiving-end device, direct communication with the portable communication terminal by being carried with the portable communication terminal;

transmitting the operation information to the portable communication terminal for transmitting, by the portable communication terminal to an outside of the transmitting-end device and the receiving-end device, the monitoring information transmitted received by the receiving-end device from the transmitting-end device via the short distance radio, the receiving end device being an adaptor separable from the portable communication terminal and configured to connect to the portable communication terminal; and

transmitting the monitoring information from the portable communication terminal to the outside of the transmitting-end device and the receiving-end device when the receiving-end device together with the portable communication terminal approaches the monitored target.