Cellular phone

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9344831-B2
Application number	US-201414319174-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2014
Priority date	Sep 14, 2007
Publication date	May 17, 2016
Grant date	May 17, 2016

Abstract

A cellular phone includes a telephone line communication part, a telephone functional part for making a telephone call via the telephone line communication part, an entry qualification holding part for holding fixed-term entry qualification information in which an entry target is specified, which is received via the telephone line communication part, and an entry communication part for transmitting the fixed-term entry qualification information held by the entry qualification holding part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle system including a vehicle and a cellular phone in cooperation with the vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle to be parked by a driver carrying a cellular phone;
a control part arranged to have the cellular phone store information relating to a position of parking the vehicle in automatic response to a stop of the vehicle; and
an information holding part in the cellular phone arranged to hold the information in response to the control part to keep the information within the cellular phone even if the driver carrying the cellular phone leaves the vehicle
wherein the cellular phone includes a telephone functional part for making a communication with another cellular phone carried by another person who has not known the position of parking the vehicle, and wherein the telephone function part is arranged to transmit the information to the other cellular phone for the other person carrying the other cellular phone to know the position of parking the vehicle and easily access the vehicle, and
wherein the cellular phone includes an entry qualification holding part arranged to hold entry qualification information to enter the vehicle, and wherein the telephone function part is arranged to transmit the entry qualification information to the other cellular phone for another person carrying the other cellular phone to enter and drive the vehicle.

2. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle has an engine, and wherein the control part is arranged to have the cellular phone store the information in automatic response to a stop of the engine of the vehicle.

3. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the information is derived from GPS system, and wherein the control part is arranged to have the cellular phone store the latest information before the stop of the vehicle.

4. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the information is indicative of a parking area where the vehicle is stopped.

5. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the information is indicative of a specific parking position at which the vehicle is stopped.

6. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the cellular phone includes a display part arranged to indicate the position of parking the vehicle in accordance with the information held by the information holding part for the driver to easily come back to the vehicle.

7. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein the information relating to the position of parking the vehicle cannot be received by the other cellular phone unless the entry qualification information is received by the other cellular phone.

8. In a vehicle system including a vehicle and a cellular phone in cooperation with the vehicle, the vehicle comprising:
an operating part relating to stop of the vehicle;
a control part arranged to have the cellular phone store information relating to a position of parking the vehicle in automatic response to the operating part to stop the vehicle; and
an entry qualification system for a driver carrying the cellular phone to enter and drive the vehicle, the entry qualification system is arranged to qualify entry qualification information from another cellular phone to which the entry qualification information has been transmitted, by the cellular phone carried by the driver, along with the information relating to the position of parking the vehicle the other cellular phone being carried by another person who has not known the position of parking the vehicle unless the information relating to the position of parking the vehicle has been transmitted to the other cellular phone.

9. The vehicle according to claim 8 , wherein the operating part is an engine, and wherein the control part is arranged to have the cellular phone store the information in automatic response to a stop of the engine of the vehicle.

10. The vehicle according to claim 8 further comprising GPS system, wherein the information is an output of the GPS system.

11. The vehicle according to claim 10 , wherein the control part is arranged to have the cellular phone store the output of the GPS system when the vehicle is stopped.

12. The vehicle according to claim 10 , wherein the control part is arranged to have the cellular phone store the latest output of the GPS system before the stop of the vehicle.

13. In a vehicle system including a vehicle and a cellular phone in cooperation with the vehicle, the cellular phone comprising:
a control part arranged to have the cellular phone store information relating to a position of parking the vehicle in automatic response to a signal from the vehicle which is stopped; and
an information holding part in the cellular phone arranged to hold the information in response to the control part to keep the information within the cellular phone even if the driver carrying the cellular phone leaves the vehicle; and
a telephone functional part for making a communication with another cellular phone carried by another person who has not known the position of parking the vehicle, wherein the telephone function part is arranged to transmit the information to the other cellular phone for the other person carrying the other cellular phone to know the position of parking the vehicle and easily access the vehicle, and
wherein the cellular phone includes an entry qualification holding part arranged to hold entry qualification information to enter the vehicle, and wherein the telephone function part is arranged to transmit the entry qualification information to the other cellular phone for another person carrying the other cellular phone to enter and drive the vehicle.

14. The cellular phone according to claim 13 , wherein the vehicle has an engine, and wherein the signal from the vehicle is indicative of a stop of the engine of the vehicle.

15. The cellular phone according to claim 13 , wherein the information is indicative of a parking area where the vehicle is stopped.

16. The cellular phone according to claim 13 , wherein the information is indicative of a specific parking position at which the vehicle is stopped.

17. The cellular phone according to claim 13 further comprising a display part arranged to indicate the position of parking the vehicle in accordance with the information held by the information holding part for the driver to easily come back to the vehicle.

18. The cellular phone according to claim 13 , wherein the information relating to the position of parking the vehicle cannot be received by the other cellular phone unless the entry qualification information is received by the other cellular phone.

Assignees

• Rohm Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tanaka Masahide

Classifications

• B60R2325/205

  Mobile phones · CPC title

• H04M2250/10

  including a GPS signal receiver · CPC title

• G07C2009/00865

  remotely by wireless communication · CPC title

• B60R25/24

  using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user · CPC title

• H04M1/72533

  Electricity · mapped topic