Cover for mobile device
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsYoshinori Otsubo, Kazunari Muranaka
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Abstract
A cover for a mobile device includes a cover body to be mounted on the mobile device, an operation portion provided on the cover body and capable of receiving an external operation, a transmission portion which transmits an operation signal for remotely operating a vehicle-mounted device when the operation portion receives the operation, a determination portion which determines whether or not the mobile device is in a specific state, and a restricting device which executes a process for restricting the remote operation when the determination portion determines that the mobile device is in the specific state.
Claims7
A detachable cover for a mobile device, comprising:
- a cover body to be detachably mounted on the mobile device provided with a device-side first connector capable of outputting information indicating a usage state of the mobile device to an outside;
- an operation portion provided on the cover body, and capable of receiving an external operation;
- a transmission portion which transmits an operation signal for remotely operating a vehicle-mounted device when the operation portion receives the operation;
- a determination portion which determines whether or not the mobile device is in a specific state;
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- a restricting device which executes a process for restricting the remote operation when the determination portion determines that the mobile device is in the specific state, wherein
- the cover body is provided with a cover-side first connector to be detachably connected to the device-side first connector, and
- the determination portion acquires the information indicating the usage state of the mobile device from the mobile device via each of the device-side first connector and the cover-side first connector, and determines that a state that the mobile device is used is the specific state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.