Communication device, information presentation device, communication method, program, and recording medium

• US 8,423,052 B2
• Filed: 09/02/2009
• Issued: 04/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Ueda, Toru, Shirakawa, Junichi, Daioku, Syuji, Kusumoto, Nobuo, Tojima, Akira, Shioda, Takehiko, Tozaki, Akihiro, Minoshima, Kunihiro, Hashimoto, Kazunori
• Primary Examiner(s): WEST, LEWIS G
• Application Number:
  US13/119,118
• Publication Number:
  US 20110183627A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3, 455/456.1, 455/457, 455/404.2, 455/456.2, 455/456.5, 455/456.6
• US Class Current: 455/457
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3438 Rendez-vous, i.e. searching a destination where several users can meet, and the routes to this destination for these users; Ride sharing, i.e. searching a route such that at least two users can share a vehicle for at least part of the route
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services

Abstract

It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user. Included are: a wireless communication section (20) for carrying out data communication with the navigation device (50); and a line communication section (30) for carrying out data communication with the communication device (80), and an address sending section (22) for sending, to the navigation device (50) via the wireless communication section (20), first identification information for identifying the communication device (80); a position receiving section (26) for receiving position information from the communication device (80) via the line communication section (30); a position sending section (24) for sending the position information to the navigation device (50) via the wireless communication section (20); a message receiving section (32) for receiving a message from the navigation device (50) via the wireless communication section (20); an address adding section (34) for adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device (10); and a message sending section (36) for sending, to the communication device (80) via the line communication section (30), the message to which the second identification information is added.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising:

a first communication section for carrying out data communication with an information presentation device; and

a second communication section for carrying out data communication with another communication device,

said communication device, further comprising;

an identification information sending section for sending, to the information presentation device via the first communication section, first identification information for identifying the another communication device;

a position information receiving section for receiving, from the another communication device via the second communication section, position information for specifying a position;

a position information sending section for sending the position information to the information presentation device via the first communication section;

a message receiving section for receiving a message from the information presentation device via the first communication section;

an identification information adding section for adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device; and

a message sending section for sending, to the another communication device via the second communication section, the message to which the second identification information is added by the identification information adding section.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the position information received by the position information receiving section is image data in which the position information is embedded.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein:

the first communication section is communication section for establishing communication via a short-distance wireless communication; and

the second communication section is communication section for establishing communication via a mobile telephone network.

4. An information presentation device for communicating with a communication device recited in claim 1 via the first communication section, comprising:

an identification information receiving section for receiving, via the first communication section, the first identification information for identifying the another communication device;

a recipient selecting section for presenting, in accordance with the first identification information, a message recipient in a selectable manner;

a position information receiving section for receiving the position information from the communication device via the first communication means;

an arrival time estimating section for estimating, on the basis of the position information, an arrival time at which the information presentation device arrives at the position specified by the position information;

a message generating section for generating, on the basis of the arrival time estimated by the arrival time estimating section, a message to be sent to the message recipient selected via the recipient selecting section; and

a message sending section for sending, to the communication device via the first communication section, the message generated by the message generating section.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a program for causing a communication device recited in claim 1 to operate is stored, said program being for causing a computer to function as each of the section recited in claim 1.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a program for causing an information presentation device recited in claim 4 to operate is stored, said program being for causing a computer to function as each of the section recited in claim 4.

5. A communication method carried out by a communication device including:

a first communication section for carrying out data communication with an information presentation device; and

a second communication section for carrying out data communication with another communication device,

said method, comprising the steps of;

sending, to the information presentation device via the first communication section, first identification information for identifying the another communication device;

receiving, from the another communication device via the second communication section, position information for specifying a position;

sending the position information to the information presentation device via the first communication section;

receiving a message from the information presentation device via the first communication section;

adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device; and

sending, to the another communication device via the second communication section, the message to which the second identification information is added in the step of adding.