In-vehicle system, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system

• US 9,134,956 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2013
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Automotive Electronics Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Automotive Electronics Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamashita, Shuji, Nishidai, Tetsuo, Inaguma, Takahiro, Tomita, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Khatib, Rami
• Application Number:
  US14/056,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20140114504A1
• Time in Patent Office: 698 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/40 Features of the power supply for the anti-theft system, e.g. anti-theft batteries, back-up power supply or means to save battery power
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00579 Power supply for the keyless data carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

An in-vehicle system has a control device that controls a vehicle, and a charging device provided in the vehicle, in which a portable terminal is chargeable. The charging device has a power supply part that supplies power to the portable terminal, and a communication part that communicates with the portable terminal when the portable terminal is installed on the charging device. The control device has an authentication part that authenticates first authentication information received by the communication part from the portable terminal, and a vehicle control part that controls whether to permit starting of the vehicle based on an authentication result of the first authentication information.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle system comprising:

a control device that controls a vehicle; and

a charging device provided in the vehicle, in which a portable terminal is chargeable,

wherein the charging device comprises;

a power supply part that supplies power to the portable terminal; and

a communication part that communicates with the portable terminal when the portable terminal is installed on the charging device, and

wherein the control device comprises;

an authentication part that authenticates first authentication information received by the communication part from the portable terminal; and

a power supply control part,

wherein the power supply control part controls power to be supplied from the power supply part to the portable terminal when the authentication of the first authentication information has succeeded before the vehicle is started, and

wherein the power supply control part controls power to be supplied from the power supply part to the portable terminal regardless of the authentication result of the first authentication information after the vehicle is started.

2. The in-vehicle system according to claim 1,

wherein the power supply part supplies power to the portable terminal in a non-contact form, and wherein the communication part performs near-field wireless communication with the portable terminal.

3. The in-vehicle system according to claim 1,

wherein the control device further comprises a vehicle control part that controls whether to permit starting of the vehicle based on an authentication result of the first authentication information.

4. The in-vehicle system according to claim 3, wherein, in the case where the authentication of the first authentication information has succeeded, the vehicle control part outputs a command to start the vehicle when a predetermined operation has been performed on the vehicle.

5. The in-vehicle system according to claim 3,

wherein the control device further comprises:

a near-field wireless communication part that performs near-field wireless communication with the portable terminal,

wherein the authentication part further authenticates the first authentication information received by the near-field wireless communication part from the portable terminal, and

wherein the vehicle control part further controls locking or unlocking of a door of the vehicle based on an authentication result of the first authentication information.

6. The in-vehicle system according to claim 3,

wherein the control device further comprises:

a wireless communication part that wirelessly communicates with a dedicated portable device for the vehicle,

wherein the authentication part further authenticates second authentication information received by the wireless communication part from the portable device, and

wherein the vehicle control part further controls whether to permit the starting of the vehicle based on an authentication result of the second authentication information.

7. The in-vehicle system according to claim 6, wherein the vehicle control unit limits a function of the vehicle when the vehicle has been started according to the first authentication information compared to when the vehicle has been started according to the second authentication information.

8. The in-vehicle system according to claim 3,

wherein the power supply part supplies power to the portable terminal in a non-contact form,

wherein the communication part further performs the near-field wireless communication with the portable terminal and a dedicated portable terminal for the vehicle,

wherein the authentication part further authenticates the second authentication information received by the communication part from the portable device, and

wherein the vehicle control part further controls whether to permit the starting of the vehicle based on an authentication result of the second authentication information.

9. A method of controlling a vehicle comprising a control device that controls a vehicle and a charging device comprising a power supply part that supplies power to a portable terminal and provided in the vehicle in which the portable terminal is chargeable, the method comprising:

communicating, by the charging device, with the portable terminal when the portable terminal has been installed and receiving authentication information from the portable terminal;

authenticating, by the control device, the authentication information received by the charging device from the portable terminal;

controlling, by the control device, power to be supplied from the power supply part to the portable terminal when the authentication of the first authentication information has succeeded before the vehicle is started; and

controlling, by the control device, power to be supplied from the power supply part to the portable terminal regardless of the authentication result of the first authentication information after the vehicle is started.

10. A vehicle control system comprising:

a control device that controls a vehicle;

a charging device provided in the vehicle in which a portable terminal is chargeable;

and a dedicated portable device for the vehicle,

wherein the portable device comprises;

a near-field wireless communication part that performs near-field wireless communication with the portable terminal and transmits first authentication information to the portable terminal,

wherein the charging device comprises;

a power supply part that supplies power to the portable terminal; and

a communication part that communicates with the portable terminal when the portable terminal is installed on the charging device, and

wherein the control device comprises;

an authentication part that authenticates the first authentication information received by the communication part from the portable terminal; and

a power supply control part,

wherein the power supply control part controls power to be supplied from the power supply part to the portable terminal when the authentication of the authentication information has succeeded before the vehicle is started, and

wherein the power supply control part controls power to be supplied from the power supply part to the portable terminal regardless of the authentication result of the authentication information after the vehicle is started.

11. The vehicle control system according to claim 10,

wherein the control device further comprises the a vehicle control part that controls whether to permit starting of the vehicle based on an authentication result of the authentication information.

12. The vehicle control system according to claim 11, wherein the vehicle control part further controls whether to permit starting of the vehicle based on an effective period or an effective number of times set in the first authentication information.

13. The vehicle control system according to claim 12, wherein the effective period or the effective number of times is set when the authentication information is transmitted from the portable device to the portable terminal.

14. The vehicle control system according to claim 11,

wherein the power supply part supplies power to the portable terminal in a non-contact form, and

wherein the communication part performs near-field wireless communication with the portable terminal.

15. An in-vehicle system comprising:

a control device that controls a vehicle; and

a charging device provided in the vehicle in which a portable terminal is chargeable,

wherein the charging device comprises;

a power supply part that supplies power to the portable terminal; and

a communication part that communicates with the portable terminal when the portable terminal is installed on the charging device, and

wherein the control device comprises;

an authentication part that authenticates authentication information received by the communication part from the portable terminal; and

a power supply control part,

wherein the power supply control part controls power to be supplied from the power supply part to the portable terminal when the authentication of the authentication information has succeeded before the vehicle is started, and

wherein the power supply control part controls power to be supplied from the power supply art to the portable terminal regardless of the authentication result of the authentication information after the vehicle is started.