Portable equipment

• US 8,670,878 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2013
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Yonehara, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Marc, McDieunel
• Application Number:
  US13/795,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20130245858A1
• Time in Patent Office: 364 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0016 characterised by the operator's input device input arrangements for computing systems in general G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C

Abstract

Portable equipment for displaying a vehicle page, indicative of information relating to a vehicle corresponding to the portable equipment, on a screen of a display unit, includes: a reading request receiving device that receives a reading request manipulation for requesting to display the vehicle page; a position information acquisition device that acquires position information of the portable equipment and the vehicle; an item selection device that specifies an area, in which the position of the portable equipment and the vehicle is disposed, and selects an item of a top page of the display unit according to the area among multiple items; and a page display controller that controls the display unit to display the item of the top page on the screen.

Claims

1. Portable equipment for displaying a vehicle page, indicative of information relating to a vehicle corresponding to the portable equipment, on a screen of a display unit, the portable equipment comprising:

a reading request receiving device that receives a predetermined reading request manipulation for requesting to display the vehicle page;

a position information acquisition device that acquires position information of at least one of the portable equipment and the vehicle when the reading request receiving device receives the reading request manipulation;

an item selection device that identifies a position of the at least one of the portable equipment and the vehicle according to the position information, specifies an area, in which the position of the at least one of the portable equipment and the vehicle is disposed, and selects an item of a top page, which is to be displayed initially as the vehicle page on the display unit, according to the area among a plurality of predetermined items; and

a page display controller that controls the display unit to display the item of the top page on the screen.

2. The portable equipment according to claim 1, wherein:

when the reading request receiving device receives the reading request manipulation, the position information acquisition device acquires position information of both of the portable equipment and the vehicle;

the item selection device identifies the position of the portable equipment and the position of the vehicle according to the position information;

the item selection device specifies the area of the portable equipment and the area of the vehicle; and

the item selection device selects the item of the top page relating to the portable equipment and the item of the top page relating to the vehicle according to the area of the portable equipment and the area of the vehicle, respectively.

3. The portable equipment according to claim 1, further comprising:

a vehicle condition acquisition device that acquires vehicle condition information indicative of a vehicle condition corresponding to the item when the item selection device selects the item, wherein;

the item includes a plurality of item elements;

the page display controller specifies a top-priority item element among the plurality of item elements according to the vehicle condition information; and

the page display controller controls the display to display the top page on the screen in such a manner that at least the top-priority item element is highlighted.

4. The portable equipment according to claim 3, wherein:

the page display controller determines a priority of each item element, which are selected by the item selection device, according to the vehicle condition information; and

the page display controller controls the display to display the plurality of item elements on the top page in such a manner that each item element is displayed according to the priority.

5. The portable equipment according to claim 1, further comprising:

a memory unit that stores the plurality of items and a plurality of areas in such a manner that each area is stored in association with the item, wherein;

the item selection device selects the item of the top page corresponding to the area according to a storage content of the memory unit.

6. The portable equipment according to claim 5, wherein:

the item includes a plurality of item elements other than a certain item element, which is not necessary to be displayed on the screen.

7. The portable equipment according to claim 1, wherein:

the item includes a remote operation item element for executing a predetermined remote operation with respect to the vehicle; and

the page display controller executes the predetermined remote operation when an user inputs a predetermined manipulation to the remote operation item element on the display unit.

8. The portable equipment according to claim 7, further comprising:

a memory unit that stores the plurality of items and a plurality of areas in such a manner that each area is stored in association with the item, wherein;

the item selection device selects the item of the top page corresponding to the area according to a storage content of the memory unit;

the remote operation item element does not include an unnecessary usage item element, a physically impossible item element and an inhibition item element;

the unnecessary usage item element indicates that the remote operation is not necessary to be used in the area;

the physically impossible item element indicates that the remote operation is physically impossible in the area; and

the inhabitation item element indicates that the remote operation is inhibited in the area.

9. The portable equipment according to claim 1, wherein:

the vehicle includes a plurality of associated vehicles.

10. The portable equipment according to claim 9, further comprising:

a vehicle selection manipulation receiving device that receives a predetermined vehicle selection manipulation for selecting one of the plurality of associated vehicles, which is a candidate vehicle of a display object of the vehicle page, wherein;

the position information acquisition device acquires the position information of at least one of the portable equipment and the candidate vehicle;

the item selection device identifies the position of the at least one of the portable equipment and the candidate vehicle according to the position information;

the item selection device specifies the area, in which the position of the at least one of the portable equipment and the candidate vehicle is disposed,

the item selection device selects the item of the top page, which is to be displayed, initially as the vehicle page on the display unit, according to the area among the plurality of predetermined items; and

the page display controller controls the display unit to display the item of the top page relating to the candidate vehicle on the screen.