US 11,870,926 B2
On-vehicle hands-free apparatus, communication control method, and computer-readable medium
Jun Hidaka, Kanagawa Ken (JP); Katsuyuki Itou, Kanagawa Ken (JP); Eiyoshi Nakatsuji, Kanagawa Ken (JP); Tomoaki Katada, Kanagawa Ken (JP); and Yuki Murata, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/553,117.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-214221 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0201114 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/60 (2006.01); H04M 3/02 (2006.01); H04M 1/27453 (2020.01)
CPC H04M 1/6075 (2013.01) [H04M 1/27453 (2020.01); H04M 3/02 (2013.01); H04M 2203/551 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An on-vehicle hands-free apparatus that enables a hands-free call by being connected to a mobile phone in a wireless or wired manner, the on-vehicle hands-free apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
a hardware processor coupled to the memory, wherein
the hardware processor is configured to:
cause the mobile phone to execute an outgoing/incoming call using a phone function of the mobile phone based on outgoing/incoming call history data or phone book data stored in the mobile phone, the outgoing/incoming call history data including a phone number transmitted and received by the mobile phone; and
acquire the outgoing/incoming call history data including a phone number of a counterpart of a call from the mobile phone when the call is terminated on the mobile phone,
wherein the hardware processor is configured to:
execute an outgoing/incoming call by using a phone function of the on-vehicle hands-free apparatus; and
receive a user's operation for giving instruction to make connection to the mobile phone in a first connection mode in which a call using a function of the mobile phone is implementable by the hardware processor, wherein
the hardware processor is configured to make connection to the mobile phone in the first connection mode when receiving the user's operation for giving instruction to make connection to the mobile phone in the first connection mode, wherein
the hardware processor is configured to cause a first display of the on-vehicle hands-free apparatus to display a first icon image before receiving the user's operation for giving instruction to make connection to the mobile phone in the first connection mode, and hide the first icon image and cause the first display to display a second icon image different from the first icon image after making connection to the mobile phone in the first connection mode.