US 12,323,547 B2
Vehicle device and method executed by vehicle device
Hisashi Koiso, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corporation, Yokohama (JP)
Filed by JVCKENWOOD Corporation, Yokohama (JP)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/932,689.
Application 17/932,689 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/034702, filed on Sep. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-206569 (JP), filed on Dec. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0017282 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/48 (2018.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); H04M 1/72412 (2021.01)
CPC H04M 1/72412 (2021.01) [G06V 20/593 (2022.01); H04W 4/48 (2018.02)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle device comprising:
a passenger detector structured to identify a passenger on board a vehicle from a video captured by a camera that captures an inside of a cabin of the vehicle and specify a boarding position of the passenger identified;
a determiner structured to determine whether or not a mobile terminal associated with the passenger identified by the passenger detector is in a state of being connectable by near field communication;
a decider structured to decide a mobile terminal to be connected by the near field communication on a basis of boarding positions of a plurality of passengers associated with a plurality of mobile terminals in a case where there is the plurality of mobile terminals determined by the determiner to be in a state of being connectable by the near field communication; and
a communication controller structured to connect the mobile terminal decided by the decider and the vehicle device by the near field communication.