Air conditioning remote control system for a vehicle, server, and portable terminal
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJunichi Nishida
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Abstract
A portable terminal (300) transmits to a server (210) a request to start pre-air conditioning when the operations to begin pre-air conditioning are performed on the screen of the portable terminal (300). The server (210) predicts whether an air conditioning device (180) will begin cooling or heating on the basis of a set of vehicle location information stored in a vehicle information storage unit (214) and a set of temperature information acquired from a temperature information center, and transmits the prediction results to the portable terminal (300). As a consequence, it is possible to notify the cooling/heating state to a vehicle user in a timely manner.
Claims10
An air conditioning remote control system for a vehicle, for starting an air conditioning device of the vehicle and performing a pre-air conditioning in a passenger compartment of the vehicle before a ride, by transmitting a remote control order from a portable terminal carried by a user of the vehicle to an in-vehicle communication unit of the vehicle identified by the portable terminal via a server provided to an information center which processes vehicle information, the pre-air conditioning being performed after the air conditioning remote control system confirms that a start permission condition relating to a predetermined vehicle state has been satisfied, the air conditioning remote control system comprising:
- a processor programmed to:
- perform a cooling/heating-prediction as to which one of cooling and heating will be carried out by the air-conditioning device in response to the remote control order without obtaining a confirmation result indicating that the permission condition has been satisfied;
- and
- control a screen of the portable terminal to display a result of the cooling/heating-prediction.
A server, provided to an information center which processes vehicle information, for:
- (i) receiving a remote control order from a portable terminal carried by a user of a vehicle, and (ii) transmitting, to an in-vehicle communication device of the vehicle identified by the portable terminal, an order to start an air conditioning device of the vehicle so as to perform a pre-air conditioning in a passenger compartment of the vehicle before a ride, the pre-air conditioning being performed after the server confirms that a start permission condition relating to a predetermined vehicle state has been satisfied, the server comprising:
- a processor programmed to:
- perform a cooling/heating-prediction as to which one of cooling and heating will be carried out by the air-conditioning device of the vehicle in response to the remote control order without obtaining a confirmation result indicating that the permission condition has been satisfied;
- and
- transmit information including a result of the cooling/heating-prediction to the portable terminal for display on a screen of the portable terminal.
A portable terminal for initiating a pre-air conditioning in a passenger compartment of a specified vehicle using an air conditioning device of the vehicle before a ride, by transmitting a remote control order regarding the pre-air conditioning to an in-vehicle communication unit of the vehicle through a server provided to an information center which processes vehicle information, the pre-air conditioning being performed after the portable terminal confirms that a start permission condition relating to a predetermined vehicle state has been satisfied, the portable terminal comprising:
- a processor programmed to:
- perform a cooling/heating-prediction as to which one of cooling and heating will be carried out by the air-conditioning device in response to the remote control order without obtaining a confirmation result indicating that the permission condition has been satisfied;
- and
- display a result of the cooling/heating-prediction on a screen of the portable terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.