JP2009231895A - Wireless communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the wireless communication system configured so that a transmit operation of one wireless unit out of two sets of wireless units might be forbidden in order to prevent that a signal is transmitted simultaneously from the two sets of wireless units, and capable of forbidding the transmit operation to a wireless unit, which is lost and is not forbidden the transmit operation, and canceling prohibition of the transmit operation for another wireless unit. <P>SOLUTION: The own transmit operation is forbidden for the wireless unit, when it is connected to a vehicle-mounted wireless unit where unique information identical to the own is memorized and when the unique information identical to the own is included in an operation control signal transmitted from the management apparatus. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a wireless communication system.

  Hereinafter, a conventional wireless communication system will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3. In the following description, including the embodiments of the present invention, in the drawings, components having common functions are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof will be omitted to avoid duplication as much as possible.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a conventional wireless communication system. 210 is a command device, 220 is a line control device, 240, 250, and 260 are base stations, 270, 280, and 390 are mobile station devices, 271 is a mobile station device 270 in-vehicle device, 272 is a mobile station device 270 mobile phone , A mobile station device 270 portable device, 281 a mobile station device 280 in-vehicle device, 282 a mobile station device 280 portable device connection portion, and 283 a mobile station device 280 portable device. The mobile station device 390 also includes an in-vehicle device, a portable device connection unit, and a portable device, but illustration thereof is omitted.
1 includes a plurality of base station devices (for example, base station devices 240, 250, 260 in FIG. 1) and a plurality of mobile station devices (for example, mobile station devices 270, 280, 390 in FIG. 1). ), And shows an example of a system that performs voice and data communication between a command device (for example, command device 210 in FIG. 1) and a plurality of mobile station devices.

  In FIG. 1, each of the mobile station devices 270, 280, and 390 shares an in-vehicle device used in a mobile vehicle such as an automobile and a portable device used outside the vehicle. Hereinafter, unless otherwise specified, the base station radio is represented by the base station radio 240, and the mobile station apparatus is represented by the mobile station apparatus 270.

First, when the portable device 273 is connected to the portable device connection unit 272 connected to the in-vehicle device 271 in the vehicle, the transmission function of the portable device 273 is prohibited. When the portable device 273 is used outside the vehicle (with the portable device 273 removed from the portable device connection part 272), the prohibition of the transmission function of the portable device 273 is canceled and the transmission function of the in-vehicle device 271 is prohibited. To do. As a result, prohibition control is performed so that both the in-vehicle device 271 and the portable device 273 do not transmit simultaneously.
Even if the transmission function is prohibited, the reception function is possible.

  Next, the configuration of mobile station apparatus 271 in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a conventional mobile station apparatus. 270 is a mobile station device, 271 is an in-vehicle device, 272 is a portable device connection unit, 273 is a portable device, 11 is a microphone of the in-vehicle device 271, 12 is a speaker of the in-vehicle device 271, 13 is an operation / display unit of the in-vehicle device 271, 14 is an audio processing unit of the in-vehicle device 271, 15 is a control unit of the in-vehicle device 271, 16 is a memory of the in-vehicle device 271, 17 is a transmission unit of the in-vehicle device 271, 18 is a reception unit of the in-vehicle device 271, 19 is an in-vehicle antenna, 21 is a portable device connection detection unit of the portable device connection unit 272, 22 is a communication unit of the portable device connection unit 272, 31 is a microphone of the portable device 273, 32 is a speaker of the portable device 273, and 33 is an operation / display of the portable device 273. , 34 is a voice processing unit of the in-vehicle device 271 of the portable device 273, 35 is a control unit of the portable device 273, 36 is a memory of the portable device 273, 37 is a transmitting unit of the portable device 273, and 38 is a receiving unit of the portable device 273. 39 is the antenna of the portable device 273.

In FIG. 2, the same unique information is stored in the memory 16 of the in-vehicle device 271 and the memory 36 of the portable device 273, respectively, and additional information for distinguishing between the in-vehicle device and the portable device is added to the unique information. ing.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of unique information stored in each memory of each mobile station apparatus registered in advance. As shown in FIG. 3, for example, if the unique information of the mobile station device 270 is “00027”, the in-vehicle device 271 adds the additional information A of the in-vehicle device 271 and stores “00027A” in the memory 16, The device 273 adds the additional information B of the portable device 273 and stores “00027B” in the memory 36.

First, the control operation when the portable device 273 is connected to the portable device connection unit 272 will be described.
When the portable device connection detection unit 21 detects that the portable device 273 is connected to the portable device connection unit 272, the signal indicating that the portable device connection detection unit 21 is connected to the control unit 15 of the in-vehicle device 271 and the control unit 35 of the portable device 273 ( Connection signal). Each of the control units 15 and 35 to which the connection signal is input recognizes that the portable device 273 is connected to the portable device connection unit 272.
The in-vehicle device 271 and the control units 15 and 35 of the portable device 273 that recognize that the portable device 273 is connected to the portable device connection unit 272 are connected to the respective memory via the communication unit 22 of the portable device connection unit 272. It is judged whether it matches with the unique information stored in 16 and 36.

As a result of the determination, if the specific information matches, the control unit 35 of the portable device 273 prohibits the operation of the portable device transmission unit 37 and controls the radio wave not to be emitted from the antenna 39. At this time, the receiving unit 38 of the portable device 273 is controlled to operate (can receive radio waves via the antenna 39).
In addition, when the unique information matches, the control unit 15 of the in-vehicle device 271 controls the transmission unit 17 and the reception unit 18 of the in-vehicle device 271 to operate.

As a result of the determination, if the unique information does not match, the control unit 15 of the in-vehicle device 271 prohibits the operation of the transmission unit 17 of the in-vehicle device 271 and performs control so that radio waves are not emitted from the in-vehicle antenna 19. At this time, the receiving unit 18 of the in-vehicle device 271 is controlled so as to operate, and the reception function is enabled even if the transmission function is prohibited.
In addition, when the specific information does not match, the control unit 35 of the portable device 273 controls the transmission unit 37 and the reception unit 38 of the portable device 273 to operate.

Next, a control operation when the portable device 273 is detached from the portable device connection unit 272 will be described.
The control unit 15 of the in-vehicle device 273 and the control unit 35 of the portable device 273 have the portable device 273 removed from the portable device connection unit 272 when the connection signal described above is not input. That is, it recognizes that the portable device 273 is not connected to the in-vehicle device 271.
Recognizing that the portable device 273 has been removed from the portable device connection unit 272, the control unit 15 of the in-vehicle device 271 prohibits the operation of the transmission unit 17 and performs control so that radio waves are not emitted from the in-vehicle antenna 19. . At this time, the receiving unit 18 controls to operate so that the receiving operation can be performed even if the transmission function is prohibited.
In addition, the control unit 35 of the portable device 273 that has recognized that the portable device 273 has been removed from the portable device connection unit 272 controls the transmission unit 37 and the reception unit 38 of the portable device 273 to operate.

By the above control, prohibition control is performed so that both the in-vehicle device and the portable device mounted on the in-vehicle device do not transmit at the same time. This is because both the in-vehicle device and the portable device can be used with the same wireless license. In addition, since the vehicle-mounted device and the portable device are controlled so that the reception operation can be performed even if the transmission operation is prohibited, the signals transmitted from other wireless devices can be received.
The technique described above is described in Patent Document 1, for example.

JP 2006-101068 A

In the above-described conventional technology, the control unit of the in-vehicle device prohibits the operation of the transmission unit of the in-vehicle device unless the portable device having the same unique information as the in-vehicle device is connected to the portable device connection unit. Therefore, for example, when a situation occurs in which the portable device is lost or stolen and cannot be connected to the vehicle-mounted device, the transmission function on the vehicle-mounted device side cannot be restored.
An object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems and to prevent a transmission operation of one of the two radios from being prohibited in order to prevent simultaneous transmission of signals from the two radios. A wireless communication system capable of prohibiting transmission operation of the other wireless device when the other wireless device whose transmission operation is not prohibited in the communication system is lost, and releasing the prohibition of transmission operation of the one wireless device. It is to provide.

  In order to achieve the above object, a wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a vehicle-mounted non-woven machine storing unique information, a portable wireless device storing unique information identical to the vehicle-mounted wireless device, and the vehicle-mounted wireless device being the portable device. A connection unit for connecting to a wireless device, and a management device capable of transmitting an operation control signal including at least the specific information to the in-vehicle wireless device and the portable wireless device. Portable wireless device unique information determining means for determining whether the unique information stored in the portable wireless device is the same as the stored unique information when the wireless device is connected, and an operation control signal transmitted from the management device When receiving the operation control signal unique information judging means for judging whether or not the unique information included in the operation control signal is the same as the stored unique information, and a portable device storing the same unique information as the self Transmission operation prohibiting means for prohibiting its own transmission operation except when the wire machine is connected, and when the operation control signal transmitted from the management device includes the same unique information as its own A transmission operation prohibition canceling means for canceling the prohibition of transmission operation, and when the portable wireless device is connected to the in-vehicle wireless device, the unique information stored in the in-vehicle wireless device is the same as the unique information stored therein Vehicle-mounted radio unique information determining means for determining whether or not the unique information included in the operation control signal is the same as the unique information stored by itself when the operation control signal transmitted from the management device is received The operation control signal unique information determining means for determining and the same unique information as the self in the operation control signal transmitted from the management device when connected to the in-vehicle wireless device storing the same unique information as the self When included, in which and a transmission operation inhibiting means for inhibiting the own transmission operation.

  According to the present invention, in a wireless communication system configured to prohibit the transmission operation of one of the two wireless devices in order to prevent simultaneous transmission of signals from the two wireless devices, When there is a situation where the connection between the portable device and the in-vehicle device that is the other wireless device occurs, such as when a portable device is lost or stolen, the transmission operation of the other wireless device is prohibited, It becomes possible to cancel the prohibition of the transmission operation of the machine.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5 and FIGS.
The mobile station apparatus according to an embodiment of the wireless communication system of the present invention transmits, in addition to functions similar to those of the prior art, when the mobile device is not connected to the mobile device connection unit of the mobile station device. In addition to being controlled so that the mobile device cannot be connected to the mobile connection device due to loss or theft, the in-vehicle device can be transmitted.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the wireless communication system of the present invention. 670, 680, and 790 are mobile station devices, and 671 and 681 are on-vehicle devices. FIG. 4 shows the wireless communication system of FIG. 1 with mobile station devices 670, 680, 790 instead of mobile station devices 270, 280, 290, and on-board devices 671, 681 instead of the on-vehicle devices 271 281. Instead of the portable devices 273 and 283, portable devices 673 and 683 are added, and a management device 230 is further added.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the configuration of the mobile station apparatus of the present invention. The difference from FIG. 2 is that in-vehicle device 671 and its control unit 65 are used instead of in-vehicle device 271 and its control unit 15.

4 and 5 also, the mobile station apparatus shares an in-vehicle device used in a vehicle such as an automobile and a portable device used outside the vehicle. When a portable device is connected to the portable device connection part connected to the in-vehicle device, the transmission operation of the portable device is prohibited and the portable device is used outside the vehicle (remove the portable device from the portable device connection part). In this case, both devices are controlled not to transmit at the same time by prohibiting the transmission operation of the in-vehicle device.
Here, even if the transmission operation is prohibited, the reception operation is possible.
However, when the portable device is lost or stolen, the in-vehicle device shifts to the in-vehicle device priority mode, and transmission is possible even when the portable device is not connected to the portable connection unit. Hereinafter, this function will be described in detail.

The management device 230 can set operating conditions of each device in the mobile station devices 270, 280,.
As in the prior art, for example, the same unique information is stored in the memory 16 of the in-vehicle device 671 and the memory 36 of the portable device 273. Additional information for distinguishing each in-vehicle device and portable device is added to the unique information.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of unique information stored in each memory of each mobile station apparatus registered in advance. As shown in FIG. 6, for example, when the unique information of the mobile station device 670 is “00067”, the in-vehicle device 671 adds the additional information A of the in-vehicle device 671 and stores “00067A” in the memory 16, The device 673 adds the additional information B of the portable device 673 and stores “00067B” in the memory 36.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the setting contents of the operating conditions of the mobile station device registered in the memory (not shown) of the management device 230. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the setting contents of the transmission operation conditions of the in-vehicle device and the portable device of each mobile station in the state shown in FIG.
In FIG. 7, since the mobile device 673 is connected to the mobile connection unit 672 in the mobile station terminal 670, the in-vehicle device 671 is “operation permitted” and the mobile device 673 is “operation prohibited”. Further, since the mobile device 683 is removed from the mobile connection unit 682 in the mobile station terminal 680, the setting contents are “operation prohibited” for the in-vehicle device 671 and “operation prohibited” for the mobile device 683.

For example, it is assumed that the portable device 683 (unique information + additional information: “00068B”) of the mobile station device 680 shown in FIG. 4 is lost or stolen.
Then, when the lost or stolen information is notified from the mobile station device 680 to the management device 203, the management device 230 is configured so that the portable device 683 of the mobile station device 680 that has been lost or stolen is not used. As shown in FIG. 8, the mobile device 683 of the mobile station device 680 is set to operation prohibition, while the operation prohibition of the in-vehicle device 681 is released (operation is permitted). Then, a signal (operation control signal) including unique information of the mobile station device 680 is sent to all the mobile station devices registered in the management device 230 via the line control device 220 and all the base station devices 240, 250, 260. Send to. Note that an instruction to transmit an operation control signal from the management device 230 is given by an operator. Further, the operation control signal may be a signal composed only of unique information of mobile station apparatus 680 or a signal including other data.
The control unit of the portable device 683 that has received the operation control signal determines whether or not the unique information included in the received signal is the same as the stored unique information, and if it is the same, prohibits its own transmission operation. At this time, it is also possible to perform control such as making an alarm sound from the speaker.

  When the portable device 683 is removed from the portable device connection unit 282 by the control unit, the in-vehicle device 681 is prohibited from transmitting. Even in that case, the receiving operation is possible. Therefore, by receiving the operation control signal transmitted from the management device 230, the in-vehicle device 681 can recognize that the portable device 683 having the same specific information as itself is set to prohibit transmission operation.

Specifically, when the in-vehicle device 681 receives the operation control signal from the management device 230, the in-vehicle device 681 determines whether the unique information included in the received signal is the same as the stored unique information. Cancel the prohibition of transmission operation.
That is, the control of the in-vehicle device 681 recognizes that the portable device 683 has been disabled from the normal operation mode (the in-vehicle device priority mode) by receiving the operation control signal including its own unique information. Recognizing this, the control unit of the in-vehicle device 681 restores its own transmission function.
The management device, the control unit of the in-vehicle device, and the control unit of the portable device are both provided with a program memory (not shown), and a program for performing the above processing operation is registered in advance.
As described above, when the portable device is lost or stolen, the management device 230 sends an operation control signal including specific information of the portable device to the line control device so that the portable device cannot transmit. The data is transmitted to all mobile station apparatuses registered in the management apparatus 230 via 220 and all base station apparatuses 240, 250, and 260. The control unit of the portable device that has received the signal prohibits the operation of the transmission unit so that the transmission function is not used. However, when a lost or stolen portable device is temporarily out of the communication area of the wireless communication system when transmitted from the management device 230, or the portable device is turned off. As described above, the operation control signal may not be received. In this case, when the portable device is turned on or used for transmission within the communication area, there is a possibility that double transmission that collides with the transmission of the in-vehicle device having the same unique information may occur.

Hereinafter, as another embodiment of the present invention, a countermeasure for preventing the double transmission will be described with reference to FIG.
In this embodiment, when the operator thinks that the portable device has returned from the outside of the communication area to the communication area, and the transmission is started, the portable device is set to always execute the all-channel scan. is there.
Further, even when the power of the portable device is turned on from off, the portable device is set so that all channel scans are always executed.

If a lost or stolen portable device is to be transmitted from outside the communication area to the communication area, all channel scanning is executed at the start of transmission. In the all channel scan, the reception electric field strength of all the set channels is measured, a base station device capable of registering a location is searched, and a location registration request is made.
For example, if the base station device capable of location registration is the base station device 250, it has returned to the area, and a location registration request is transmitted to the management device 230 via the base station device 250. The management device 230 confirms whether or not an operation control signal has been transmitted in the past to the portable device that has requested location registration by referring to a transmission history stored in a memory (not shown). If the operation control signal has been transmitted to the portable device, the transmission control signal is retransmitted without outputting the location registration permission signal.

  If the lost or stolen portable device is switched from the power-off state to the power-on state, the all-channel scan is executed at the start of transmission. Processing similar to the above is performed by the management device 230. Other system configurations are the same as those in the previous embodiment.

  According to the other embodiments described above, even when the lost or stolen portable device is out of the communication area when transmitting the operation control signal, or when the power is off. However, double transmission can be prevented.

The block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the conventional radio | wireless communications system. The block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the conventional mobile station apparatus. The figure which shows an example of the specific information memorize | stored in the memory of a mobile station apparatus. The block diagram which shows one Example of a structure of the radio | wireless communications system of this invention. The block diagram which shows one Example of a structure of the mobile station apparatus of this invention. The figure which shows one Example of the specific information memorize | stored in the memory of the mobile station apparatus of this invention. The figure which shows one Example of the setting content of the operating condition of the mobile station apparatus registered into memory of the management apparatus of this invention. The figure which shows one Example of the setting content of the operating condition of the mobile station apparatus registered into memory of the management apparatus of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  11: Microphone, 12: Speaker, 13: Operation / display section, 14: Audio processing section, 15: Control section, 16: Memory, 17: Transmission section, 18: Reception section, 19: In-vehicle antenna, 21: Mobile device connection Detection unit, 22: Communication unit, 31: Microphone, 32: Speaker, 33: Operation / display unit, 34: Audio processing unit, 35: Control unit, 36: Memory, 37: Transmission unit, 38: Reception unit, 39: Mobile antenna, 65: Control unit, 210: Command device, 220: Line control device, 230: Management device, 240, 250, 260 ,: Base station, 270, 280, 390: Mobile station device, 271: In-vehicle device, 272 : Mobile device connection unit, 273: Mobile device, 281: On-vehicle device, 282: Mobile device connection unit, 283: Mobile device, 670, 680, 790: Mobile station device, 671, 681: On-vehicle device, 673, 683: Mobile Machine.

Claims (1)

In-vehicle non-woven machine that stores unique information,
A portable wireless device storing the same unique information as the in-vehicle wireless device;
Connecting means for connecting the in-vehicle wireless device to the portable wireless device;
A management device capable of transmitting an operation control signal including at least the specific information to the in-vehicle wireless device and the portable wireless device, and
The in-vehicle wireless device is
Portable wireless device unique information determining means for determining whether the unique information stored in the portable wireless device is the same as the stored unique information when the portable wireless device is connected;
An operation control signal unique information judging means for judging whether or not the unique information included in the operation control signal is the same as the stored unique information when the operation control signal transmitted from the management device is received;
A transmission operation prohibiting means for prohibiting its own transmission operation except when a portable wireless device storing the same unique information as itself is connected;
When the operation control signal transmitted from the management device includes the same specific information as the self, the transmission operation prohibition release means for canceling the prohibition of its own transmission operation,
The portable radio is
Vehicle-mounted wireless device unique information determining means for determining whether the unique information stored in the vehicle-mounted wireless device is the same as the stored unique information when connected to the vehicle-mounted wireless device;
An operation control signal unique information judging means for judging whether or not the unique information included in the operation control signal is the same as the stored unique information when the operation control signal transmitted from the management device is received;
When connected to an in-vehicle wireless device that stores the same unique information as itself, and when the operation control signal transmitted from the management device includes the same unique information as itself A wireless communication system, comprising: a transmission operation prohibiting means for prohibiting transmission.

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