Vehicle-mounted equipment

• US 8,306,744 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2006
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Ohi, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Champagne, Luna
• Application Number:
  US12/085,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20090287406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,163 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 701/444
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0231 Circuits relating to the driving or the functioning of the vehicle monitoring tyres B60C23/00; indicating overspeed B60K31/00; for dash boards B60K37/00, B60Q3/10; for indicating emergencies B60Q1/52; brake control systems B60T; registering or indicating the working of vehicles G07C5/00; measuring distance G01C, e.g. combinations of speed and distance G01C23/00; engine indicators G01L; measuring speed or acceleration G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network

Abstract

Vehicle-mounted equipment includes a storage unit 12 for storing data for a plurality of destinations, a vehicle-mounted network connecting unit 11 for receiving destination data indicating a destination via a vehicle-mounted network, a destination determining unit 21 for determining the destination on the basis of destination data received by the vehicle-mounted network connecting unit, and a data deleting unit 22 for deleting data other than data for the destination determined by the destination determining unit from the storage unit.

Claims

1. Vehicle-mounted equipment to be mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a storage unit including previously stored data corresponding to each of a plurality of destinations;

a vehicle-mounted network connecting unit configured to receive destination data indicating a destination via a vehicle-mounted network, where the destination indicates a destination to which the vehicle is shipped;

a destination determining unit configured to determine the destination on a basis of the destination data received by said vehicle-mounted network connecting unit; and

a data deleting unit configured to delete data previously stored in the storage unit other than data-corresponding to the destination determined by said destination determining unit.

2. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has a navigation function of providing guidance on a basis of map data, and

the storage unit stores map data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

3. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment includes an audio function of playing back a piece of music on a basis of music data, and

said storage unit stores music data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

4. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has a facility searching function of searching for a facility on a basis of facility data, and

said storage unit stores facility data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

5. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein the data deleting unit does not implement the deletion of said data during an inspection term prepared before the equipment is shipped from a maker of the equipment to a maker of the vehicle.

6. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein

the vehicle-mounted network connecting unit receives under-inspection-indicating data via the vehicle-mounted network, where the under-inspection-indicating data indicates whether or not the equipment is on an inspection term prepared before the equipment is shipped from a maker of the equipment to a maker of the vehicle, and

the data deleting unit does not implement the deletion of said data when the under-inspection-indicating data indicates the equipment is on the inspection term.

7. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, further comprising:

a GPS receiver configured to receive GPS radio waves; and

a position determining unit configured to determine a current position on a basis of the GPS signals acquired by the GPS receiver, wherein

the data deleting unit does not implement the deletion of said data when the current position determined by the position determined unit indicates said current position is inside a specific area.

8. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein the data deleting unit implements the deletion of said data on a basis of data indicating whether or not a process of the deletion of said data has been done.

9. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein the data deleting unit does not implement the deletion of said data when data indicating whether or not a process of the deletion of said data has been done indicates said process has been done.

10. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 1, wherein the data deleting unit implements the deletion of said data on a basis of data indicating whether or not the deletion of said data is permitted.

11. Vehicle-mounted equipment to be mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a storage unit including previously stored data corresponding to each of a plurality of destinations;

a destination setting unit configured to set up both a destination and information indicating whether or not said vehicle-mounted equipment is being inspected, where the destination indicates a destination to which the vehicle is shipped;

a destination determining unit configured to determine a destination on a basis of destination data indicating the destination set up by said destination setting unit; and

a data deleting unit configured to delete data previously stored in the storage unit other than data corresponding to the destination determined by said destination determining unit when the destination setting unit has set information indicating that the vehicle-mounted equipment is not being inspected, and not to delete said data when the destination setting unit has set information indicating that the vehicle-mounted equipment is being inspected.

12. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 11, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has a navigation function of providing guidance on a basis of map data, and

said storage unit stores map data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

13. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 11, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has an audio function of playing back a piece of music on a basis of music data, and

said storage unit stores music data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

14. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 11, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has a facility searching function of searching for a facility on a basis of facility data, and

said storage unit stores facility data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

15. Vehicle-mounted equipment to be mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a storage unit including previously stored data corresponding to each of a plurality of destinations;

a destination setting unit configured to set up a destination, where the destination indicates a destination to which the vehicle is shipped;

a destination determining unit configured to determine a destination on a basis of destination data indicating the destination set up by said destination setting unit; and

a compression/decompression processing unit configured to decompress data corresponding to said determined destination out of the data previously stored in the storage unit if said data has been compressed, and to compress data previously stored in the storage unit other than said data corresponding to said determined destination.

16. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 15, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has a navigation function of providing guidance on a basis of map data, and

said storage unit stores map data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

17. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 15, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has an audio function of playing back a piece of music on a basis of music data, and

said storage unit stores music data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.

18. The vehicle-mounted equipment according to claim 15, wherein

said vehicle-mounted equipment has a facility searching function of searching for a facility on a basis of facility data, and

said storage unit stores facility data as the data corresponding to the plurality of destinations.