US 12,358,512 B2
In-vehicle apparatus control system, in-vehicle apparatus, and in-vehicle apparatus control method
Hiroe Ushio, Saitama (JP); Shingo Takei, Saitama (JP); and Yuichiro Nakagawa, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Saitama (JP)
Filed by FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Saitama (JP)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/469,732.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-151066 (JP), filed on Sep. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0073081 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC B60W 40/08 (2013.01) [B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G06V 20/593 (2022.01); G06V 40/166 (2022.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01); B60W 2040/0881 (2013.01); B60W 2420/40 (2013.01); B60W 2540/227 (2020.02); H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-vehicle apparatus control system coupling an in-vehicle apparatus installed in a vehicle to a mobile terminal in a communicable manner,
the in-vehicle apparatus control system comprising:
a server that communicates with the in-vehicle apparatus and the mobile terminal; and
the mobile terminal,
wherein the server comprises:
a storage unit that stores a face image of a user of the mobile terminal by associating the face image with identification information of the mobile terminal and identification information of the in-vehicle apparatus; and
a seated position judgment unit,
wherein the mobile terminal comprises:
an in-vehicle coupling unit that acquires the identification information of the in-vehicle apparatus upon beginning communication with the in-vehicle apparatus;
a mobile terminal image capturing unit that captures a user's face image;
a face image transmission unit that transmits, to the server, the face image associated with the identification information of the mobile terminal and the identification information of the in-vehicle apparatus; and
a command transmission unit that transmits, to the in-vehicle apparatus, a command which is a control request,
wherein the in-vehicle apparatus comprises:
a mobile terminal coupling unit that transmits the identification information of the in-vehicle apparatus upon beginning communication with the mobile terminal;
an in-vehicle apparatus image capturing unit that captures an inside passenger compartment image which is an image of an inside of a passenger compartment; and
an inside passenger compartment image transmission unit that transmits the inside passenger compartment image and the identification information of the in- vehicle apparatus,
wherein the seated position judgment unit:
judges a seated position of the user by means of facial recognition by using the inside passenger compartment image and the face image which are associated with the same identification information of the in-vehicle apparatus, and
transmits the seated position, which is a judgment result, and the identification information of the mobile terminal corresponding to the seated position to the in-vehicle apparatus; and
wherein the in-vehicle apparatus:
stores the seated position and the identification information of the mobile terminal, which are received from the seated position judgment unit, by associating the seated position with the identification information of the mobile terminal, and
identifies the seated position on the basis of the identification information of the mobile terminal and executes control according to the seated position of the user of the mobile terminal when accepting a specified control request from the mobile terminal.