US 2025/0147512 A1Published application

Vehicle control system

AssigneePanasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

InventorsJun FUJIYAMA, Naoya KOIKE, Jun OGAWA, Shinya OTA

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Abstract

A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle including an operation device; a first communication device; and a second communication device. In a case in which the first communication device is positioned in a first area containing a position of the vehicle, the vehicle operates in an operation waiting state in which the operation device is allowed to receive an operation. In a case in which the second communication device is positioned in a second area contained in the first area and smaller than the first area, the vehicle operates in the operation waiting state. In a case in which the first communication device is positioned in the first area and the second communication device is positioned in the second area, the second communication device generates a notification indicating that the vehicle is in the operation waiting state.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A vehicle control method for a vehicle control device mounted in a vehicle, the vehicle control device configured to wirelessly communicate with a communication device and having a first area containing a position of the vehicle, a second area containing the position of the vehicle and being smaller than the first area, and a third area containing the position of the vehicle and being smaller than the second area, the vehicle including an operation device, the vehicle control method comprising:

executing connection authentication of a wireless connection with the communication device when the communication device enters the first area from an outside of the first area;
making the vehicle being in an operation waiting state in which the operation device receives an operation functionally when the communication device enters the third area from an outside of the third area;
making the vehicle still being in the operation waiting state when the communication device enters the second area excluding the third area, from the third area;
and
making the vehicle not being in the operation waiting state when the communication device enters the first area excluding the second area, from the second area, wherein the vehicle is in a control enabled state when the operation device receives an operation while the vehicle is in the operation waiting state, and the vehicle is not in the control enabled state when the operation device receives the operation while the vehicle is not in the operation waiting state.

2 more elements

A vehicle control device configured to be mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a wireless communication circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with a communication device;
and
a input circuit configured to be coupled with an operation device, the operation device located in the vehicle
wherein the vehicle control device is configured to have a first area containing a position of the vehicle, a second area containing the position of the vehicle and being smaller than the first area, and a third area containing the position of the vehicle and being smaller than the second area,
wherein the vehicle control device executes connection authentication of a wireless connection with the communication device when the communication device enters the first area from an outside of the first area,
the vehicle control device makes the vehicle being in an operation waiting state in which the operation device receives an operation functionally when the communication device enters the third area from an outside of the third area,
the vehicle control device makes the vehicle still being in the operation waiting state when the communication device enters the second area excluding the third area, from the third area, and
the vehicle control device makes the vehicle not being in the operation waiting state when the communication device enters the first area excluding the second area, from the second area,
wherein the vehicle is in a control enabled state when the operation device receives an operation while the vehicle is in the operation waiting state, and the vehicle is not in the control enabled state when the operation device receives the operation while the vehicle is not in the operation waiting state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 19/016,814Filed 10 Jan 2025
Priority: JP 2018-24603227 Dec 2018
Published: 8 May 2025
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Classification22 codes

G05D 1/0278
Using signals provided by a source external to the vehicle: using satellite positioning signals, e.g. GPS
H04W 12/50
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: secure pairing of devices
B60R 25/01
Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles: operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors,…
B60R 25/24
Means to switch the anti-theft system on or off: using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user

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