In-vehicle device, control method thereof, and remote control system

• US 9,392,105 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Nagai, Yasushi, Shimizu, Atsushi, Matsumoto, Takashi, Hirota, Takayuki, Yamaguchi, Takashi, Oohara, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): EL CHANTI, HUSSEIN A
• Application Number:
  US14/669,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20150201066A1
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724098 Interfacing with an on-board device of a vehicle for hands-free speaking in vehicles H04M1/6075
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/56 including a user help function
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information

Abstract

An input/output limitation information storage unit stores input/output limitation information in which limitation processing for limiting operation input to the application and display output from the application is prescribed by associating the limitation processing with the application. A determination unit acquires a vehicle state of a vehicle, and determines the limitation processing to be applied to the operation input to the application and the display output from the application on the basis of the application running on the terminal device, the vehicle state, and the input/output limitation information. The limitation unit performs the limitation processing determined by the determination unit for the operation input detected by the input control unit and transmitted to the communication control unit, and the display output received by the communication control unit and transmitted to the output control unit.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle device comprising:

a communication interface connectable with a mobile phone terminal;

a display unit;

a vehicle state acquiring unit configured to acquire a state of a vehicle;

a control unit; and

a storage unit storing predetermined image data to display on the display unit when a display of display data received from the mobile phone terminal is limited,

wherein

the control unit is configured to control display of display data received from the mobile phone terminal on the display unit when the state of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle state acquiring unit is a first state, and

the control unit is configured to control display of the predetermined image data on the display unit when the state of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle state acquiring unit is a second state different from the first state and image data to be used for limiting a display is unable to be acquired from the mobile phone terminal.

2. The in-vehicle device according to claim 1, wherein:

the control unit is configured to control display of image data acquired from the mobile phone terminal on the display unit when the state of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle state acquiring unit is the second state and the image data to be used for limiting the display is able to be acquired from the mobile phone terminal.

3. The in-vehicle device according to claim 1, wherein:

the first state is a state that a parking brake of the vehicle is ON, and the second state is a state that the parking brake of the vehicle is OFF.

4. The in-vehicle device according to claim 2, wherein:

the first state is a state that a parking brake of the vehicle is ON, and the second state is a state that the parking brake of the vehicle is OFF.

6. The method of display control according to claim 4, further comprising:

displaying image data acquired from the mobile phone terminal on the display unit when the state of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle state acquiring unit is the second state and the image data to be used for limiting the display is able to be acquired from the mobile phone terminal.

7. The method of display control according to claim 4 wherein:

the first state is a state that a parking brake of the vehicle is ON, and the second state is a state that the parking brake of the vehicle is OFF.

5. A method of display control performed by an in-vehicle device installed in a vehicle, the in-vehicle device comprising a communication interface connectable to a mobile phone terminal and a display unit, the method comprising:

storing predetermined image data to display on the display unit when a display of display data received from the mobile phone terminal is limited,

acquiring a state of the vehicle,

displaying display data received from the mobile phone terminal on the display unit when the acquired state of the vehicle is a first state,

displaying the predetermined image data on the display unit when the acquired state of the vehicle is a second state different from the first state and a display data to be used for limiting a display is unable to be acquired.

8. The method of display control according to claim 5 wherein:

the first state is a state that a parking brake of the vehicle is ON, and the second state is a state that the parking brake of the vehicle is OFF.