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US 11,886,566 B2Granted
Vehicle authentication system and in-vehicle device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsToru Yamaguchi, Kenji Kato, Takeshi Kumazaki
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Abstract
A vehicle authentication system includes a ring-type wearable device, an in-vehicle device, and a communication terminal. The in-vehicle device performs authentication regarding use of the vehicle. The in-vehicle device causes a short-range communication module to perform short-range wireless communication with the ring-type wearable device that has unique identification information. The in-vehicle device acquires information received by a wide area communication module configured to communicate, via a network, with the communication terminal configured to make a reservation for the use of the vehicle.
Claims10
A vehicle authentication system comprising:
- a ring-type wearable device that has a ring shape to be worn on a finger of a user, has unique identification information, and includes a ring-side short-range communication unit configured to perform short-range wireless communication;
- an in-vehicle device that is attached to a vehicle, and includes an authentication unit, a vehicle-side short-range communication unit, and a reception information acquisition unit,
- the authentication unit configured to perform authentication regarding use of the vehicle,
- the vehicle-side short-range communication unit configured to cause a short-range communication module attached to the vehicle to perform the short-range wireless communication, and
- the reception information acquisition unit configured to acquire information received by a wide area communication module attached to the vehicle and configured to communicate via a network;
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- a communication terminal that includes a reservation unit, a terminal-side short-range communication unit, and a terminal-side wide area communication unit,
- the reservation unit configured to make a reservation for the use of the vehicle,
- the terminal-side short-range communication unit configured to perform the short-range wireless communication, and
- the terminal-side wide area communication unit configured to communicate via the network, wherein
- when the ring-side short-range communication unit performs the short-range wireless communication with the terminal-side short-range communication unit, the ring-side short-range communication unit transmits the identification information to the terminal-side short-range communication unit by the short-range wireless communication,
- when the reservation unit makes the reservation, the terminal-side wide area communication unit transmits the identification information to the wide area communication module via the network,
- the short-range communication module is located at a position at which a part of the vehicle operated by a finger of the user is included in a communication range of the short-range wireless communication of the short-range communication module,
- when the ring-side short-range communication unit performs the short-range wireless communication with the short-range communication module, the ring-side short-range communication unit transmits the identification information to the short-range communication module by the short-range wireless communication, and
- the authentication unit performs the authentication based on verification between the identification information received by the short-range communication module and the identification information acquired by the reception information acquisition unit.
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An in-vehicle device attached to a vehicle comprising:
- an authentication unit configured to perform authentication regarding use of the vehicle;
- a vehicle-side short-range communication unit configured to cause a short-range communication module to perform short-range wireless communication with a ring-type wearable device that has a ring shape to be worn on a finger of a user, and has unique identification information;
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- a reception information acquisition unit configured to acquire information received by a wide area communication module configured to communicate, via a network, with a communication terminal configured to make a reservation for the use of the vehicle, wherein
- the short-range communication module is located at a position at which a part of the vehicle operated by the finger of the user is included in a communication range of the short-range wireless communication of the short-range communication module,
- when the communication terminal makes the reservation, the reception information acquisition unit acquires, via the network, the identification information received by the wide area communication module from the ring-type wearable device through the communication terminal, and
- when the short-range communication module performs the short-range wireless communication with the ring-type wearable device, the authentication unit performs the authentication based on verification between identification information received by the short-range communication module from the ring-type wearable device and the identification information acquired by the reception information acquisition unit.
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An in-vehicle device attached to a vehicle comprising a processor configured to:
- perform authentication regarding a use of the vehicle;
- cause a short-range communication module to perform short-range wireless communication with a ring-type wearable device that has a ring shape to be worn on a finger of a user, and has unique identification information;
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- acquire information received by a wide area communication module configured to communicate, via a network, with a communication terminal configured to make a reservation for the use of the vehicle, wherein
- the short-range communication module is located at a position at which a part of the vehicle operated by the finger of the user is included in a communication range of the short-range wireless communication of the short-range communication module,
- when the communication terminal makes the reservation, the processor acquires, via the network, the identification information received by the wide area communication module from the ring-type wearable device through the communication terminal, and
- when the short-range communication module performs the short-range wireless communication with the ring-type wearable device, the processor performs the authentication based on verification between identification information received by the short-range communication module from the ring-type wearable device and the identification information acquired by the processor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.