GEAR SHIFT PROMPTING SYSTEM AND GEAR SHIFT PROMPTING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140055257A1
• Filed: 01/31/2013
• Published: 02/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.), MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd. (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.), MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd. (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: LIU, WEN-HUA
• Application Number:
  US13/755,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20140055257A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/456
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/00 Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor for lighting vehicle interior B60Q3/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2063/426 with means for advising the driver for proper shift action, e.g. prompting the driver with allowable selection range of ratios
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 63/42 Ratio indicator devices

Abstract

A gear shift prompting system and a gear shift prompting method are provided. The gear shift prompting system includes a navigation module and a control module, wherein the control module generates a real-time gear shift signal to control a vehicle gear shift. The navigation device includes a prompting module and a processing module. The processing module receives the real-time gear shift signal and controls the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of a current gear shift corresponding to the real-time gear shift signal or controls the prompting module to generate a graphical illustration message of the current gear shift based upon the real-time gear shift signal.

Claims

1. A gear shift prompting system comprising:

a control module for generating a real-time gear shift signal to control a vehicle gear shift; and

a navigation device comprising;

a prompting module; and

a processing module for receiving the real-time gear shift signal, and controlling the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of a current gear shift corresponding to the real-time gear shift signal based upon the real-time gear shift signal or controlling the prompting module to display a graphical illustration message of the current gear shift.

2. The gear shift prompting system as recited in claim 1, wherein the navigation device obtains a piece of front traffic information through a traffic message channel (TMC).

3. The gear shift prompting system as recited in claim 2 wherein the processing module analyzes a corresponding gear shift parameter based upon the piece of front traffic information, and controls the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of a corresponding gear shift corresponding to the corresponding gear shift parameter, or controls the prompting module to display a graphical illustration message of the corresponding gear shift.

4. The gear shift prompting system as recited in claim 2 wherein the processing module transmits a front traffic signal to an external database based upon the piece of front traffic information, and the external database receives the front traffic signal to analyze a corresponding gear shift parameter, and the external database transmits the corresponding gear shift parameter back to the processing module.

5. The gear shift prompting system as recited in claim 4 wherein the processing module controls the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of a corresponding gear shift corresponding to the corresponding gear shift parameter based upon the corresponding gear shift parameter, or controls the prompting module to display a graphical illustration message of the corresponding gear shift.

6. The gear shift prompting system as recited in claim 2, wherein the processing module transmits a front traffic signal to an external database through a general packet radio service (GPRS) based upon the piece of front traffic information.

7. The gear shift prompting system as recited in claim 6, wherein the external database receives the front traffic signal to analyze a corresponding gear shift parameter, and transmits the corresponding gear shift parameter back to the processing module, and the processing module controls the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of a corresponding gear shift corresponding to the corresponding gear shift parameter, or controls the prompting module to display a graphical illustration message of the corresponding gear shift based upon the corresponding gear shift parameter.

8. The gear shift prompting system as recited in claim 1, wherein the control module is connected to the navigation device through a controller area network (CAN) bus, and controls the navigation device to audio-broadcast the audio message of the current gear shift corresponding to the real-time gear shift signal, or controls the navigation device to display the graphical illustration message of the current gear shift through the controller area network bus.

9. A gear shift prompting method being suitable for a gear shift prompting system, the gear shift prompting system comprising a navigation device and a control module, the navigation device comprising a prompting module and a processing module, the gear shift prompting method comprising:

generating a real-time gear shift signal to control a vehicle gear shift by utilizing the control module;

receiving the real-time gear shift signal through the processing module; and

controlling the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of a current gear shift corresponding to the real-time gear shift signal or controlling the prompting module to display a graphical illustration message of the current gear shift based upon the real-time gear shift signal by utilizing the processing module.

10. The gear shift prompting method as recited in claim 9, further comprising a step:

obtaining a piece of front traffic information through a traffic message channel (TMC) by using the navigation device.

11. The gear shift prompting method as recited in claim 10, further comprising steps:

analyzing a corresponding gear shift parameter based upon the piece of front traffic information by using the processing module; and

controlling the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of a corresponding gear shift corresponding to the corresponding gear shift parameter or display a graphical illustration message of the corresponding gear shift on the prompting module through the processing module.

12. The gear shift prompting method as recited in claim 10, further comprising steps:

transmitting a front traffic signal to an external database based upon the piece of front traffic information by utilizing the processing module;

receiving the front traffic signal to analyze a corresponding gear shift parameter through the external database; and

transmitting a corresponding gear shift back to the processing module through the external database.

13. The gear shift prompting method as recited in claim 12, further comprising a step:

controlling the prompting module to audio-broadcast an audio message of the corresponding gear shift corresponding to the corresponding gear shift parameter or display a graphical illustration message of the corresponding gear shift based upon the corresponding gear shift parameter by the processing module.

14. The gear shift prompting method as recited in claim 10, further comprising a step:

transmitting a front traffic signal to an external database through a general packet radio service (GPRS) based upon the piece of front traffic information by using the processing module.

15. The gear shift prompting method as recited in claim 14, further comprising steps:

receiving the front traffic signal to analyze a corresponding gear shift parameter through the external database;

transmitting the corresponding gear shift parameter back to the processing module through the external database; and

controlling the navigation device to audio-broadcast an audio message of a corresponding gear shift corresponding to the corresponding gear shift parameter by the processing module, or display a graphical illustration message of the corresponding gear shift on the navigation device based upon the corresponding gear shift parameter.

16. The gear shift prompting method as recited in claim 9, further comprising steps:

connecting the navigation device and the control module through a controller area network (CAN) bus; and

controlling the navigation device to audio-broadcast the audio message of the current gear shift corresponding to the real-time gear shift signal or controlling the navigation device to display the graphical illustration message of the current gear shift through the controller area network bus by utilizing the control module.