System for using at least one mobile terminal device in a motor vehicle

• US 8,594,654 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2007
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: Weyl, Daniel, Steinberg, Karl-Ernst
• Primary Examiner(s): AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE
• Application Number:
  US11/808,908
• Publication Number:
  US 20070291664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,358 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/99, 455/238.1, 455/297, 455/344, 455/345, 455/404.1, 455/404.2, 455/414.2, 455/418, 455/420, 4554561-457, 455/517, 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 455/557, 455/566, 455/569.2, 455/575.9, 455/3.06, 455/419, 455/569.1, 701117-119, 701/200, 701/202, 701206-209, 701211-213, 701/1, 701/2, 340/932.2, 340/988, 340/990, 340/991, 340/995.1, 340/995.12, 340/995.13, 340/995.14, 340/995.15, 340/995.19, 340/995.2, 34042611-42634, 340/425.5, 340/445, 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/539.19, 340/439
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3661 Guidance output on an external device, e.g. car radio
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3688 Systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices (not client-server), e.g. detachable faceplates, key fobs or multiple output screens
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface

Abstract

A system for using at least one mobile terminal in a motor vehicle, such as a passenger automobile or a two-wheeled vehicle in particular, having at least one mobile terminal, a display device situated in the vehicle, an operating device provided in the vehicle, and a communication interface between the vehicle and the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal and/or a terminal integration device provided in the vehicle be provided with a terminal sequence controller, which calls up an operating and/or display interface on the vehicle display device for operating functions and/or software applications of the mobile terminal and is operated via the vehicle operating device.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a mobile terminal; and

a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle comprising

a display device;

an operating device; and

a communication interface that couples the motor vehicle and the mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal comprises a terminal sequence controller arranged to call-up an operating and/or display interface on the display device for operating functions and/or software applications of the mobile terminal and is operated via the operating device, and

wherein a vehicle sequence controller provided in the motor vehicle takes over control of at least one of the display device and the operating device and calls up another operating and/or display interface instead of the operating and/or display interface called up by the terminal sequence controller to alert a driver to an important message of vehicle electronics.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal is a mobile telephone, a PDA or personal digital assistant, a notebook, or another mobile computer.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal communicates with a terminal integration device via an Internet protocol (IP protocol).

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal further comprises a software application that is made useable, via the operating and/or display interface, for Internet browsing, entertainment, telephone, radio, TV, mobile office, messaging, navigation, games, and/or networking, such as Bluetooth, WLAN, GPRS, and/or UMTS.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the operating and/or display interface called up by the terminal sequence controller on the display device is adapted, in relation to a corresponding operating interface of the mobile terminal, to a speed of the motor vehicle, so that the operating and/or display interface is simplified when the speed of the motor vehicle exceeds a first speed.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the terminal sequence controller causes a selection and/or a compression and/or a simplified display in relation to the operating and/or display interface, including a distribution onto multiple menus, to adapt the operating interface to the speed of the motor vehicle.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal has a vehicle sequence controller that allows the mobile terminal to at least partially assume a vehicle-specific function, including a driver assistance system and cooperate with sensors attached to the motor vehicle.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal sequence controller has a Java application, by which independence from the operating system and/or from the type of the terminal is achieved.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein first menus, which are used to operate units of the motor vehicle and are shown on the display device of the motor vehicle, are generated by a data processing device provided in the motor vehicle, and second menus, which are used to operate the mobile terminal, are generated by the mobile terminal and/or a terminal integration device provided in the motor vehicle.

10. The system according to claim 7, wherein the driver assistance system includes a parking aid.

11. The system according to claim 7, wherein the driver assistance system includes an image recognition system.

12. A system, comprising:

a mobile terminal; and

a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle comprising

a display device;

an operating device; and

a communication interface that couples the motor vehicle and the mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal comprises a terminal sequence controller arranged to call-up an operating and/or display interface on the display device for operating functions and/or software applications of the mobile terminal and is operated via the operating device,

wherein the operating and/or display interface called up by the terminal sequence controller on the display device is adapted, in relation to a corresponding operating interface of the mobile terminal, to a speed of the motor vehicle, so that the operating and/or display interface is simplified when the speed of the motor vehicle exceeds a first speed,

wherein the terminal sequence controller causes a selection and/or a compression and/or a simplified display in relation to the operating and/or display interface, including a distribution onto multiple menus, to adapt the operating interface to the speed of the motor vehicle.

13. A system, comprising:

a mobile terminal; and

a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle comprising

a display device;

an operating device; and

a communication interface that couples the motor vehicle and the mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal comprises a terminal sequence controller arranged to call-up an operating and/or display interface on the display device for operating functions and/or software applications of the mobile terminal and is operated via the operating device,

wherein the operating and/or display interface called up by the terminal sequence controller on the display device is adapted, in relation to a corresponding operating interface of the mobile terminal, to a speed of the motor vehicle, so that the operating and/or display interface is simplified when the speed of the motor vehicle exceeds a first speed,

wherein the terminal sequence controller causes a selection and/or a compression and/or a simplified display in relation to the operating and/or display interface, including a distribution onto multiple menus, to adapt the operating interface to the speed of the motor vehicle, and

wherein the selection and/or the compression and/or the simplified display is based on an information load on a driver of the motor vehicle, which is ascertained on the basis of sensors on the motor vehicle and/or on the basis of traffic information transmitted into the motor vehicle.