Abstract:
A vehicular device includes, as an operation mode, an owner registration mode that accepts registration of owner information and an owner registration prohibition mode that does not accept registration of owner information. The vehicular device normally operates in the owner registration prohibition mode. The vehicle device switches to the owner registration mode only when a registration start signal indicating that the registrant is the owner is input from the server or the dedicated device.
Abstract:
A server issues a service key for using a designated vehicle and a plurality of one-time authentication keys based on a request from the mobile terminal, and distributes the one-time authentication key to the mobile terminal. The one-time authentication key is a disposable authentication key generated based on the service key, and has an expiration date. The one-time authentication key is consumed when the vehicular device authenticates the mobile terminal as a communication partner. The mobile terminal replaces the one-time authentication key stored in the mobile terminal at any time.
Abstract:
A user identification system is provided. In the user identification system, an in-vehicle apparatus specifies a position of a vehicular portable device with reference to a vehicle and determines whether the vehicular portable device exists in a predetermined identification area. Based on determining that the vehicular portable device exists in the identification area, the in-vehicle apparatus transmits an instruction signal instructing the vehicular portable device to specify a driver terminal. Based on reception signal strength detected during a time period determined by a time point of receipt of the instruction signal, the vehicular portable device determines the driver terminal.
Abstract:
An owner terminal is configured so that a deletion target key, which is a guest key to be deleted, can be selected via a guest list screen. When the key to be deleted is selected, the owner terminal sends a signal requesting the deletion of the guest key to the server. The server deletes the key data from the corresponding terminal by transmitting a deletion instruction command to the mobile terminal corresponding to the key to be deleted. Further, the server transmits a data set for deleting the key to be deleted from an authentication ECU to each of the corresponding terminal and the owner terminal. When the data set is transferred from the corresponding terminal or the owner terminal to the authentication ECU by short-range communication, the key to be deleted is also deleted from the authentication ECU.
Abstract:
A short-range wireless communication system mounted on a vehicle includes a master device and slave devices. Each of the master device and slave devices is a short-range wireless communication device that communicates with a mobile terminal located in a communication range to perform a wireless communication. The master device includes a mobile terminal detection unit detecting the mobile terminal located in a communication range of the master device and an activation control unit performing an activation control to activate the slave devices in response to a detection of the mobile terminal by the mobile terminal detection unit. Each slave device is maintained in a deactivated state until activation control is performed by the activation control unit of the master device. Each slave device is activated when the activation control is performed by the activation control unit of the master device.
Abstract:
A user identification system is provided, which includes an in-vehicle apparatus used by multiple users and a vehicular portable device carried by a user acting as a driver and associated with the in-vehicle apparatus. The vehicular portable device detects received signal strength of signals received from the portable terminals at multiple time points, and based on the received signal strength detected by the received signal strength detector, determines a driver terminal which is the portable terminal carried by the user acting as the driver. The vehicular portable device determines as the driver terminal the portable terminal that provides a smallest degree of change of the received signal strength detected multiple times.
Abstract:
An on-vehicle device, which is to be mounted on a vehicle, includes a wireless communication unit (11, 11a) which is connected to a mobile terminal located within a communication range to perform wireless communication with the mobile terminal, and provides a service using the wireless communication in the wireless communication unit. The on-vehicle device further includes a parking determination unit (19) which determines whether or not the vehicle is parked and a communication range changing unit (20 or 20a) which narrows, when the parking determination unit determines that the vehicle is parked, the communication range of the wireless communication unit such that the communication range is narrower than that before the parking determination unit determines that the vehicle is parked.
Abstract:
A vehicle control apparatus includes: a first communicator that has a communication range outside a vehicle and communicates with a portable communication terminal by a predetermined first wireless communication system; a second communicator that has a communication range in a vehicle compartment of the vehicle and communicates with the portable communication terminal by a second wireless communication system; a first authenticator that receives identification information from the portable communication terminal; a second authenticator that receives identification information from the portable communication terminal; a determinator that determines that the portable communication terminal exists within a predetermined range outside the vehicle, and determines that the portable communication terminal exists in the vehicle compartment of the vehicle; and a controller that permits or causes an electronic control device controlling an action of the vehicle to perform a predetermined action.
Abstract:
A communication device including a communicator and a communication controller is provided. The communicator has at least two communication ranges including a short communication range and a long communication range longer than the short communication range. The communication controller permits the communicator to perform communication with a terminal present in the short communication range regardless of a priority level of the terminal. The communication controller permits the communicator to perform communication with a terminal present in the long communication range and out of the short communication range when a priority level of the terminal is higher than a predetermined priority level.
Abstract:
According to a mobile communication apparatus, an external apparatus location storage processor stores an external apparatus location acquired by an external apparatus location acquisition processor. A wireless communication switching processor switches a wireless communication function from OFF state to ON state if the distance between a mobile communication apparatus location acquired by a mobile communication apparatus location acquisition processor and the external apparatus location stored by the external apparatus location storage processor is shorter than a predetermined distance, and switches the wireless communication function from ON state to OFF state if the distance is longer than the predetermined distance.