US 10,369,967 B2Granted

Vehicle and program for vehicle

AssigneeMico Latta Inc.

InventorsYoichiro Sako, Masahiro Suzuki

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Abstract

A vehicle that even a person whose information for authentication is not registered can use includes: a first storing means for storing information for authentication of a passenger; a first authenticating means for carrying out authentication for a user who tries to use own vehicle using the information for authentication stored in the first storing means; a communicating means for carrying out communication with a destination; a second storing means for storing information for communication with a registered destination through the communicating means; a second authenticating means for carrying out authentication for the user by connecting to the registered destination using the information stored in the second storing means by means of the communicating means; and a determining means for determining whether the user is allowed to use the own vehicle in accordance with an authentication result of the first authenticating means and/or the second authenticating means.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A vehicle comprising:

a network interface configured to carry out communication with a terminal device;
a control circuit;
at least one biological information reader;
a memory including a set of executable instructions that, when executed by the control circuit, causes the control circuit to perform operations including:
storing, by the memory, communication information of an authentication permitter;
reading, by the at least one biological information reader, biological information of a last person to exit the vehicle, the reading of the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle performed at a time the last person to exit the vehicle exits the vehicle;
storing, by the memory, the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle;
receiving a calling request from the terminal device by means of the network interface, the calling request being from a user of the terminal device, the user trying to use the vehicle;
reading, by the biological information reader, the biological information of the user, wherein biological information is at least one of face image recognition, voice recognition, fingerprint authentication, vein authentication, and iris authentication;
storing, by the memory, the biological information of the user;
carrying out a first authentication by comparing the biological information of the user and the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle, the first authentication being successful when the biological information of the user and the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle match;
when the first authentication is not successful, carrying out a second authentication for the user, the second authentication including connecting with the authentication permitter by means of the network interface using the communication information of the authentication permitter, transmitting to the authentication permitter a request for a confirmation of the user, the second authentication being successful when receiving the confirmation from the authentication permitter;
determining that the user is allowed to use the vehicle when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful;
controlling the vehicle to avow the user to use the vehicle when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful;
and locking the vehicle in a traveling impossible state when the first authentication and the second authentication are not successful.

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A vehicle comprising:

a network interface configured to carry out communication with a terminal device;
a control circuit;
at least one communication information reader;
a memory including a set of executable instructions that, when executed by the control circuit causes the control circuit to perform operations including:
storing, by the memory, communication information of an authentication permitter;
reading, by the at least one communication information reader, communication information of a last person to exit the vehicle, wherein communication information is at least one of face image recognition, voice recognition, fingerprint authentication, vein authentication, and iris authentication, the reading of the communication information of the last person to exit the vehicle performed at a time the last person to exit the vehicle exits the vehicle;
storing, by the memory, the communication information of the last person to exit the vehicle;
receiving a calling request from the terminal device by means of the network interface, the calling request being from a user of the terminal device, the user trying to use the vehicle, the calling request including communication information of the user;
storing, by the memory, the communication information of the user;
carrying out a first authentication for the user by comparing the communication information of the user and the communication information of the last person to exit the vehicle, the first authentication being successful when the communication information of the user and the communication information of the last person to exit the vehicle match;
when the first authentication is not successful, carrying out a second authentication for the user, the second authentication including connecting with the authentication permitter by means of the network interface using the communication information of the authentication permitter, transmitting to the authentication permitter a request for a confirmation of the user, the second authentication being successful when receiving the confirmation from the authentication permitter;
determining to move the vehicle by autonomous traveling when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful;
and moving the vehicle by autonomous traveling when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful.

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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a network interface, a memory, at least one biological information reader, and a computer, the network interface configured to carry out communication with a terminal device, the program causing the computer to perform operations comprising:

storing, by the memory, communication information of an authentication permitter;
reading, by the at least one biological information reader, biological information of a last person to exit the vehicle, wherein biological information is at least one of face image recognition, voice recognition, fingerprint authentication, vein authentication, and iris authentication, the reading of the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle performed at a time the last person to exit the vehicle exits the vehicle;
storing, by the memory, the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle;
receiving a calling request from the terminal device by means of the network interface, the calling request being from a user of the terminal device, the user trying to use the vehicle;
reading, by the at least one biological information reader, biological information of the user;
storing, by the memory, the biological information of the user;
carrying out a first authentication by comparing the biological information of the user and the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle, the first authentication being successful when the biological information of the user and the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle match;
when the first authentication is not successful, carrying out a second authentication for the user, the second authentication including connecting with the authentication permitter by means of the network interface using the communication information of the authentication permitter, transmitting to the authentication permitter a request for a confirmation of the user, the second authentication being successful when receiving the confirmation from the authentication permitter;
determining that the user is avowed to use the vehicle when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful;
controlling the vehicle to allow the user to use the vehicle when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful;
and locking the vehicle in a traveling impossible state when the first authentication and the second authentication are not successful.

8 more elements

storing, by the memory, communication information of an authentication permitter;
reading, by the at least one biological information reader, biological information of a last person to exit the vehicle, wherein biological information is at least one of face image recognition, voice recognition, fingerprint authentication, vein authentication, and iris authentication, the reading of the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle performed at a time the last person to exit the vehicle exits the vehicle;
storing, by the memory, the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle;
receiving a calling request from the terminal device by means of the network interface, the calling request being from a user of the terminal device, the user trying to use the vehicle, the calling request including biological information of the user;
storing, by the memory, the biological information of the user;
carrying out a first authentication for the user by comparing the biological information of the user and the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle, the first authentication being successful when the biological information of the user and the biological information of the last person to exit the vehicle match;
when the first authentication is not successful, carrying out a second authentication for the user, the second authentication including connecting with the authentication permitter by means of the network interface using the communication information of the authentication permitter, transmitting to the authentication permitter a request for a confirmation of the user, the second authentication being successful when the confirmation is received from the authentication permitter;
determining to move the vehicle by autonomous traveling when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful;
and
moving the vehicle by autonomous traveling when the first authentication or the second authentication is successful.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/120,584Filed 20 Mar 2015
Priority: JP 2014-0750791 Apr 2014
Published: US 2017/0008490 A112 Jan 2017
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

B60R 25/305
Detection related to theft or to other events relevant to anti-theft systems: using a camera
B60R 25/25
Means to switch the anti-theft system on or off: using biometry
B60W 50/082
Interaction between the driver and the control system: selecting or switching between different modes of propelling
B60W 60/0051
Handover processes: from occupants to vehicle

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US 2017/0008490 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Jan 2017
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