Control device and controlled device

• US 8,407,470 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2009
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakamoto, Takafumi, Mera, Keisuke, Umeda, Toshiyuki, Otaka, Shoji, Doi, Yusuke, Nakanishi, Toshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Chea, Philip
• Assistant Examiner(s): ABEDIN, SHANTO
• Application Number:
  US12/364,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20090195353A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,513 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.2, 340/5.8, 340/426.35, 340/426.36, 380/264, 380/270, 380/272, 713/168, 713/182, 455/410, 455/411, 455/420, 341/173
• US Class Current: 713/168
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/61 Password, biometric

Abstract

A control device being a control device communicating with a controlled device to control the controlled device includes: a first memory to store first authentication information for authenticating the controlled device; a second memory to store second authentication information for making the controlled device authenticate itself; a determination unit to compare third authentication information sent from the controlled device for specifying the controlled device with the first authentication information; a calculator to perform calculation processing on the first authentication information or the third authentication information using the second authentication information to generate a calculated value; a transmitter to transmit, when the determination unit determines that the first authentication information and the third authentication information are the same, the calculated value to the controlled device; and a memory controller to update the first authentication information.

Claims

1. A control device communicating with a controlled device to control the controlled device, comprising:

a first memory to store first authentication information configured to authenticate the controlled device;

a second memory to store second authentication information configured to enable the controlled device to authenticate the control device;

a detector to detect third authentication information transmitted by the controlled device;

a determination unit to compare the third authentication information detected by the detector with the first authentication information stored in the first memory;

a calculator to perform calculation processing on the first authentication information or the third authentication information using the second authentication information to generate a calculated value when the determination unit determines that the third authentication information and the first authentication information are matched;

a transmitter to transmit the calculated value to the controlled device; and

a memory controller to update the first authentication information in response to receiving a confirmation signal sent from the controlled device in reply to the transmission of the calculated value to the controlled device, by replacing the first authentication information stored in the first memory with the calculated value.

2. The device according to claim 1,

wherein the memory controller updates the first authentication information when the third authentication information is not received by the detector within a predetermined period of time after the transmission unit transmits the calculated value.

3. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third memory to store the calculated value generated by the calculator,

wherein the transmitter reads the calculated value from the third memory and transmits the value to the controlled device.

4. The device according to claim 3,

wherein the calculator performs calculation processing on the first authentication information updated by the memory controller.

5. A controlled device to perform control in accordance with a control signal transmitted by a control device, comprising:

a first memory to store first authentication information for activating the control device;

a transmitter to repeatedly transmit the first authentication information stored in the first memory;

a second memory to store second authentication information configured to authenticate the control device;

a detector to detect third authentication information transmitted from the control device in reply to the first authentication information transmitted by the transmitter;

a calculator to generate a calculated value obtained by performing calculation processing on the first authentication information stored in the first memory using the second authentication information stored in the second memory when the detector detects the third authentication information;

a determination unit to compare the third authentication information detected by the detector with the calculated value so as to perform the control when the third authentication information and the calculated value match; and

a memory controller to update the first authentication information stored in the first memory after the control is performed by replacing the first authentication information stored in the first memory with the calculated value.

6. The device according to claim 5,

wherein the transmitter stops the repetitive transmission for a predetermined period of time, when the determination unit determines that the third authentication information and the calculated value match.

7. The device according to claim 5, further comprising

a third memory to store the calculated value generated by the calculation unit,

wherein the determination unit compares the third authentication information with the calculated value stored in the third memory.

8. The device according to claim 6,

wherein the calculator performs calculation processing on the first authentication information updated by the memory controller.