Methods and systems for vehicle display data integration with mobile device data

• US 10,824,330 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2019
• Issued: 11/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emerging Automotive, LLC
• Original Assignee: Emerging Automotive, LLC
• Inventors: Penilla, Angel A., Penilla, Albert S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Brushaber, Frederick M
• Application Number:
  US16/411,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20190265884A1
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
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Abstract

Methods and systems are provided. One example method is for interfacing a mobile device with a vehicle. The method includes providing a connection to the Internet for the vehicle via wireless connection circuitry associated with an on-board computer of the vehicle. The connection used to communicate with a server of a cloud service provider for the vehicle. The cloud service provider is configured to manage user accounts to enable one or more vehicles to connect with the cloud service provider. A user account is assigned to a user and the user account is associated with custom settings of the user. The method includes enabling communication, by the on-board computer, with a mobile device proximate to the vehicle. The communication provides for pairing the mobile device with the on-board computer using credentials saved by the on-board computer from a previous paring or pairing the mobile device with the on-board computer via a pairing routine processed between the on-board computer and the mobile device. The method includes transferring, using the on-board computer, data for a mobile device application of the mobile device for rendering content to a display screen of the vehicle. The mobile device is configured to access the Internet using a wireless link that is separate from a wireless link of the wireless connection circuitry associated with the on-board computer. The wireless link of the mobile device is configured to exchange at least some data for the mobile device application in addition to data exchanged by the wireless connection circuitry associated with the on-board computer. At least some data exchanged using the wireless link of the mobile device is used to render said content to the display screen of the vehicle for said mobile device application. The content of the mobile device application is in addition to content rendered on the display screen of the vehicle for a native application of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A method for interfacing a mobile device with a vehicle, comprising:

providing a connection to the Internet for the vehicle via wireless connection circuitry associated with an on-board computer of the vehicle, the connection used to communicate with a server of a cloud service provider for the vehicle, the cloud service provider is configured to manage user accounts to enable one or more vehicles to connect with the cloud service provider, wherein a user account is assigned to a user and the user account is associated with custom settings of the user;

enabling communication, by the on-board computer, with a mobile device proximate to the vehicle, the communication provides for pairing the mobile device with the on-board computer using credentials saved by the on-board computer from a previous pairing or pairing the mobile device with the on-board computer via a pairing routine processed between the on-board computer and the mobile device; and

transferring, using the on-board computer, data for a mobile device application of the mobile device for rendering content to a display screen of the vehicle, wherein the mobile device is configured to access the Internet using a wireless link that is separate from a wireless link of the wireless connection circuitry associated with the on-board computer, the wireless link of the mobile device is configured to exchange at least some data for the mobile device application in addition to data exchanged by the wireless connection circuitry associated with the on-board computer, such that at least some data exchanged using the wireless link of the mobile device is used to render said content to the display screen of the vehicle for said mobile device application;

wherein said content of the mobile device application is in addition to content rendered on the display screen of the vehicle for a native application of the vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the native application of the vehicle is displayed on one or more content screens rendered on the display screen of the vehicle.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the mobile device application and the native application is displayed on the display screen with an app icon that is selectable via the display screen or via a voice input command.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said app icon of each of the mobile device application and the native application is arranged on the display screen in accordance with a custom setting.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the custom setting is applied when the user account is used with the vehicle.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein an app icon for each of the mobile device application and the native application is arranged on the display screen in accordance with a custom setting, and said custom setting is applied when the user account is used with the vehicle.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the user account is usable in one or more other vehicles, and when used in another vehicle, said custom setting is transferred to said another vehicle.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless link of the mobile device is configured to use a first Internet connection provided via an Internet provider associated with the mobile device or via a second Internet connection provided via an Internet provider associated with the vehicle.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless link of the wireless connection circuitry associated with the on-board computer is configured to use a first Internet connection provided via an Internet provider associated with the mobile device or via a second Internet connection provided via an Internet provider associated with the vehicle.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the wireless links being separate enable communication using one of the first Internet connection or the second Internet connection.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

enabling a user interface of the display screen, by the on-board computer, the user interface providing input access to any one of the native application, vehicle settings, and the mobile device application;

processing, by the on-board computer, an input for the mobile device application via the display screen of the vehicle, such that processing associated with the input for the mobile device application is processed via the mobile device; and

processing, by the on-board computer, an input for the native application via the display screen of the vehicle, such that processing associated with the input for the native application is processed via the on-board computer of the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the user account is accessible from the server of the cloud service provider to enable changes to custom settings associated with the user account, the custom settings being synchronized, at particular times, to and from one or both of the mobile device and the on-board computer of the vehicle.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the display screen includes a user interface having a plurality of icons that identify at least the native application and the mobile device application, the icons enable interaction via at least one of a touch screen, or a voice input, or a button input, or a gesture input.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the credentials include information received from one or more of user input via the display screen, or prior saved input, or voice input, or facial recognition, or eye-retina scans, or fingerprint scans, or a combination of biometrics, or a touch surface defined on the display screen, or a glass of the vehicle, or a door, or dashboard, or an interface surface of the vehicle.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein mobile device application is selected from a set of mobile device applications installed on or accessible from the mobile device,

wherein select ones of the mobile device applications being pre-identified as safe by data read by the on-board computer or the server, or being identified as allowed by settings in the user account,

wherein pre-identified as safe requires that an application does not enable interaction that has been identified to cause distraction of a driver of the vehicle while the vehicle is in a drive mode, or is determined to be moving.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the display screen of the vehicle includes one or more of a main dashboard display, or a center console display, or a combined main dashboard and center console display, or a glass surface display, or a windshield display, or a window display, or a touch surface display, or a headrest display, or a movable display, or a wireless display, or a wire-connected display.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

saving a history of inputs received via the on-board computer of the vehicle;

processing the history of inputs to learn patterns of the inputs;

automatically programming or requesting permission to program one or more features of at least one of the applications based on the learned patterns.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

processing a history of inputs, associated with the user account, to learn patterns of the inputs, the learned patterns identifying information of factors of when the inputs were made;

and

providing a query to a user interface or audio output of the vehicle that requests a decision by an occupant of the vehicle in order to change a setting of the vehicle, based on the learned patters and a current state.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

associating biometrics to the user account, the biometrics being used to monitor use of the vehicle or determine if a user interface is to be enabled, or if a guest user interface is to be enabled, or if a public user interface is to be enabled;

wherein the biometrics include one or more of image data of a driver'"'"'s face, a passenger'"'"'s face, a fingerprint, a retina scan, a signature, a voice/audio signature, a gesture, a user input, a login, a key, or a pairing device.