Communication system and control device

• US 9,787,817 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2016
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Wakita, Kazuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US15/352,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20170149950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• Field of Search: 455557
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3822 specially adapted for use in vehicles H04B1/3827 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6083 by interfacing with the vehicle audio system
• 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: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

A communication system includes a first device configured to transmit a signal to each of a first transmission path and a second transmission path provided within a vehicle, a control device configured to control an in-vehicle device on the basis of the signal transmitted to the second transmission path and transmit a signal indicating a result of control to a third transmission path, and a second device configured to detect a fraud state in the vehicle by performing a comparison on the basis of first information included in the signal received from the first transmission path and second information included in the signal received from the third transmission path.

Claims

1. A communication system, comprising:

a first device configured to transmit a signal to each of a first transmission path and a second transmission path provided within a vehicle;

a control device configured to control an in-vehicle device on the basis of the signal transmitted to the second transmission path and transmit a signal indicating a result of control to a third transmission path; and

a second device configured to detect a fraud state in the vehicle by performing a comparison on the basis of first information included in the signal received from the first transmission path and second information included in the signal received from the third transmission path.

2. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the first device transmits a signal including predetermined third information to the second transmission path and transmits a signal including the first information different from the third information to the first transmission path,

wherein the control device converts the third information into the second information, and

wherein the second device determines that a state is in the fraud state when the first information and the second information are different beyond a predetermined degree.

3. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the first device transmits a signal including common information to the first transmission path and the second transmission path, and

wherein the second device generates predicted information by predicting original information serving as a basis from which the second information is generated through conversion by the control device on the basis of the second information, and determines that the state is in the fraud state at least when the first information and the predicted information are different beyond a predetermined degree or when information obtained by performing the same conversion as the conversion on the first information and the second information are different beyond a predetermined degree.

9. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the third transmission path is the same as the first transmission path.

10. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein at least a signal transmitted by the first device includes transmission source information of the signal.

11. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the second device performs the comparison after aligning dimensions of information to be compared.

12. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the control device performs conversion into the second information by combining other additional information.

13. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the second device determines that the state is in the fraud state if a predetermined correlation is not recognized between the first information included in the received signal and the second information included in the received signal.

14. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the second device controls a function of the vehicle to be executed by the in-vehicle device corresponding to the second device on the basis of one or both of the first information and the second information.

15. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein hardware which executes a function of the vehicle and a sensor which acquires a control response of the hardware are associated in the control device, and

wherein the control device designates the control response acquired by the sensor by controlling the hardware with a control instruction value included in the signal received from the second transmission path as the second information.

16. The communication system according to claim 15, wherein the hardware includes any of a drive device, a transmission, and an instrument.

17. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the second device determines that the state is in the fraud state by determining that a fraud device spoofing the first device exists.

18. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first device, the second device, and the control device has a function of relaying communication between two or more different transmission paths.

19. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the control device transmits information indicating a malfunction when a malfunction occurs in the control device, and

wherein the second device determines that the state is in the fraud state by determining that the malfunction has occurred in the control device if the information indicating the malfunction is received and determining that a fraud device spoofing the first device exists if the information indicating the malfunction is not received.

20. A control device in the communication system according to claim 1, wherein a rule for generating the second information is shared with the first device or the second device.

4. A communication system, comprising:

a first device configured to transmit a signal for a control device to each of a first transmission path and a second transmission path provided within a vehicle;

a first control device configured to control an in-vehicle device on the basis of the signal transmitted to the first transmission path and transmit a first signal indicating a result of control to a third transmission path;

a second control device configured to control the in-vehicle device on the basis of the signal transmitted to the second transmission path and transmit a second signal indicating a result of control to a fourth transmission path; and

a second device configured to detect a fraud state in the vehicle by performing a comparison on the basis of first information included in the first signal received from the third transmission path and second information included in the second signal received from the fourth transmission path.

5. The communication system according to claim 4,

wherein the first device transmits a signal including common information to the first transmission path and the second transmission path, and

wherein the second device determines that the state is in the fraud state

at least when an estimated value of first original information serving as a basis from which the first information is generated by the first control device is determined on the basis of the first information, second predicted information capable of being generated by the second control device is determined on the basis of the estimated value of the first original information, and the second information and the second predicted information are different beyond a predetermined degree,

when an estimated value of second original information serving as a basis from which the second information is generated by the second control device is determined on the basis of the second information, first predicted information capable of being generated by the first control device is determined on the basis of the estimated value of the second original information, and the first information and the first predicted information are different beyond a predetermined degree, or

when the estimated value of the first original information serving as the basis from which the first information is generated by the first control device is determined on the basis of the first information, the estimated value of the second original information serving as the basis from which the second information is generated by the second control device on the basis of the second information is determined, and the first original information and the second original information are different beyond a predetermined degree.

6. The communication system according to claim 4,

wherein the first device and the second device have a correspondence table in which other information is defined in a predetermined range if the first device determines third information to be transmitted to the first transmission path or fourth information to be transmitted to the second transmission path, and

wherein the second device determines that the state is in the fraud state

at least when an estimated value of first original information serving as a basis from which the first information is generated by the first control device is determined on the basis of the first information, a converted value obtained by referring to the correspondence table is determined on the basis of the estimated value of the first original information, second predicted information capable of being acquired by the second control device performing conversion is determined on the basis of the determined converted value, and the second information and the second predicted information are different beyond a predetermined degree,

when an estimated value of second original information serving as a basis from which the second information is generated by the second control device is determined on the basis of the second information, a converted value obtained by referring to the correspondence table is determined on the basis of the estimated value of the second original information, first predicted information capable of being acquired by the first control device performing conversion is determined on the basis of the determined converted value, and the first information and the first predicted information are different beyond a predetermined degree, or

when the estimated value of the first original information serving as the basis from which the first information is generated by the first control device is determined on the basis of the first information, the estimated value of the second original information serving as the basis from which the second information is generated by the second control device on the basis of the second information is determined, and the first original information and the second original information are not in a correspondence relationship of the correspondence table.

7. The communication system according to claim 4, wherein the fourth transmission path is the same as the second transmission path.

8. The communication system according to claim 4, wherein the third transmission path is the same as the fourth transmission path.