Vehicle management system and associated method

• US 9,434,332 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2013
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Original Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Inventors: Jost, Jerome, Ung, Sann, Nguyen, Hoang-Giang
• Primary Examiner(s): Tarcza, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dunn, Alex C
• Application Number:
  US14/432,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20150307043A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0244 with logic circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0248 with memory of positions
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/037 for occupant comfort , e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel

Abstract

A vehicle management system including a controller connected to at least one member of the vehicle by a network of the vehicle to exchange at least one item of information with the member, the management system including a symbol generator connected to the controller, the symbol generator issuing a symbol associated with the information held by the controller.

Claims

1. A management system for a vehicle including controller circuitry connected to at least one component of the vehicle via a network of the vehicle to exchange at least one item of setting information with the component, the system comprising:

symbol generation circuitry connected to the controller circuitry,

wherein the symbol generation circuitry issues a camera readable symbol representing the setting information held by the controller circuitry, and

wherein the at least one component of the vehicle is configured based the at least one item of setting information visually read from the camera readable symbol issued by the symbol generation circuitry.

2. The management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the camera readable symbol is interpretable by decoding circuitry.

3. The management system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the setting information includes at least one operational value of the component of the vehicle.

4. The management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a man-machine interface connected to the controller circuitry, and wherein the controller circuitry is further configured to command display of at least one message on the man-machine interface, which message is formulated to determine whether a user wishes to generate a new camera readable symbol.

5. The management system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the camera readable symbol is generated according to values supplied by the user.

6. The management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the symbol generation circuitry is external to the vehicle.

7. A management method for a vehicle including a controller circuitry connected to at least one component of the vehicle via a network of the vehicle, the method. comprising:

exchanging at least one item of setting information between the controller circuitry and the component;

acquiring the setting information by the controller circuitry; and

generating at least one camera readable symbol representing the setting information acquired by the controller circuitry,

wherein the at least one component of the vehicle is configured based the at least one item of setting information visually read from the generated camera readable symbol.

8. The management method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

detecting events recorded in the controller circuitry, including;

placing the detected event in correspondence with a list of components, information of which is intended to be encoded.

9. The management method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising displaying, on a man-machine interface, at least one message asking a user whether he/she wishes to generate a camera readable symbol.

10. The management method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising acquiring a response of the user to the display.