KR20180094684A - Vehicle Terminal System And Control Method Thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vehicle terminal system and a control method thereof. The method according to the present invention comprises: a step of identifying an output method of an output apparatus mounted in a vehicle; a step of providing the output method of the output apparatus to a portable terminal; and a step of receiving contents which is contents generated from an application of the portable terminal and processed and edited in accordance with the output method, and outputting the contents through the output apparatus. According to the present invention, the contents generated in the portable terminal can be processed and edited so as to be outputted suitable for the output method and an output situation of the output apparatus mounted in the vehicle. In particular, output apparatuses within the vehicle identify situations, and services optimized for the output apparatus are provided based on continuity and multiplicity, thereby capable of providing safe and convenient services to the inside of the vehicle.

Description

Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to a vehicle terminal system,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle terminal system and a control method thereof and, more particularly, to a vehicle terminal system and a control method thereof for processing and editing content generated by a portable terminal in accordance with an expression system and a display state of the expression device mounted on the vehicle ≪ / RTI >

With the development of information and communication technology, the spread of smart phones is rapidly taking place. The smartphone is an intelligent terminal that adds various computer support functions including data communication functions such as internet communication and information retrieval to mobile phones. It is a smart phone that not only functions as a GPS module and an acceleration sensor but also has CPU, GPU and memory performance as high as a desktop PC .

However, in terms of portability, a smart display device uses a small display device compared to an information communication device used in a fixed position such as a desktop PC or a navigation device. Accordingly, most of the data processing is performed in a high-end smart phone, and an external terminal such as a car navigation system installed in a vehicle and used only in a fixed location receives the information provided by the smartphone and displays the data on the screen And the like are connected to a so-called information communication technology and an automobile to enable bidirectional communication.

In recent years, in-vehicle terminals have been developed to have a large screen of 13 to 20 inches instead of a screen size of 7 to 8 inches in width. As a result, it is possible to use two or more smartphone applications at the same time in the vehicle instead of using the 1: 1 method (the one function selected by the user from the external terminal is displayed in the external terminal) Technology is required.

Korean Patent No. 10-1306008

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle terminal system and a control method thereof, which can edit and display contents generated in a portable terminal in accordance with an expression system and a display state of a display device mounted on a vehicle .

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a vehicle terminal comprising: a display type grasping unit for grasping a display mode of a display device mounted on a vehicle; And a display control unit for receiving the content edited and edited in accordance with the display mode on the portable terminal and displaying the content on the display device.

The mobile terminal may include an application for creating content, and portable terminal software for processing and editing contents created in the application according to the display method of the display device and transmitting the edited content to the vehicle terminal.

The display method of the display device may include at least one of a content display type, a screen size, a screen resolution, and screen division information.

The content generated by the application may be vehicle navigation information for informing the driver of the vehicle movement direction information.

The content display type includes a full map type that provides vehicle movement direction information together with an electronic map, a turn by turn type that provides vehicle movement direction information in the form of an arrow, A text type providing text in the form of a text, and a voice type providing voice as a vehicle movement direction information.

The content processing and transmitting unit may select some of the vehicle navigation information generated in the application according to the content display type of the display apparatus and edit the information in a form that can be displayed on the display apparatus.

The screen division information may include at least one of a number of display regions formed by dividing a screen of the display apparatus, a content to be displayed determined for each display region, a display region size, and a content display type.

When the size of the display area is changed, the content display type of the display area can be changed according to the changed size.

The exposing device control unit may adjust the exposing mode of the exposing device according to the characteristics of the content currently displayed in the exposing device and the content further transmitted from the portable device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling a vehicle terminal, the method comprising: recognizing a display mode of a display device mounted on a vehicle; providing a display mode of the display device to the mobile terminal; And receiving the contents processed and edited in accordance with the presentation method and displaying the contents generated in the application of the portable terminal on the display device.

According to the present invention, it is possible to edit and display the contents generated by the portable terminal in accordance with the display mode and the display status of the display device mounted on the vehicle. In particular, it is possible to provide safe and convenient in-vehicle service by detecting the situation of the in-vehicle display devices and providing the optimized service to the display device based on continuity and multiplicity.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a vehicle terminal system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view showing an example in which the display device according to the embodiment of the present invention is mounted on a vehicle. FIG.
3 to 6 are views showing an example in which contents are displayed on the display device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a vehicle terminal system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a vehicle terminal system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a vehicle terminal system according to the present invention may include a portable terminal 100, a vehicle terminal 200, and a plurality of display devices 300.

The portable terminal 100 may be an information communication terminal such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a web pad, or the like.

The portable terminal 100 may be provided with various applications 110-1, 110-2, ..., 110-n to provide various services to the user. For example, each of the applications 110-1, 110-2, ..., and 110-n installed in the portable terminal 100 can provide services such as call, message, music, moving picture, vehicle navigation, (Hereinafter referred to as " content ") composed of voice, sound, image, video, and the like.

The portable terminal 100 may be connected to the vehicle terminal 200 through wired or wireless communication to exchange various information and data. Particularly, the mobile terminal 100 according to the present invention is provided with the mobile terminal software 120, which edits and edits the contents provided by the applications 110-1, 110-2, ..., 110-n to the vehicle terminal 200 Lt; / RTI >

The portable terminal software (portable terminal SW) 120 can edit and edit contents in accordance with the exposing device information transmitted from the vehicle terminal software (vehicle terminal SW) Herein, the display device information is used to determine which display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m are mounted on the vehicle and the respective display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, m), and the like.

The portable terminal software 120 may control the content provided by the applications 110-1, 110-2, ..., 110-n and the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300- The connection information may be set by default, and the connection information may be set by the user. Here, the connection information is not limited to one display device for one application, and a plurality of display devices may be connected to one application, or conversely, one display device may be connected to a plurality of applications. If a plurality of kinds of contents are provided in an application, the display devices may be connected differently for each content.

A specific example of processing and editing contents in the portable terminal software 120 will be described in detail below.

The vehicle terminal 200 may be mounted on a dashboard of a vehicle or the like and may be connected to the display device 210 provided in the vehicle terminal 200 or to other display devices 300 installed in the vehicle to provide various contents to the passenger .

The vehicle terminal 200 may be connected to a driving system or a control system of the vehicle according to a command input from a user, and may be provided with a function of controlling an operation of the vehicle itself or a convenience function.

For example, the vehicle terminal 200 may display a navigation screen, a photograph, music, a moving picture, an Internet search screen, information related to a vehicle operation (for example, Vehicle condition information such as vehicle surroundings image, vehicle front image, rear view of vehicle, front collision warning, rear collision warning, dead zone object detection, lane departure alarm, vehicle speed, engine condition, tire condition, Can be displayed.

The vehicle terminal 200 may be an AVN (Audio Video Navigation) terminal that provides audio, multimedia, and navigation services integrated in the vehicle.

The display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., and 300-m are devices that are mounted on a vehicle and that display contents. As shown in FIG. 2, a display device A head-up display device for a vehicle that is a display device utilizing a front window of a vehicle, a display device mounted on the left and right side mirrors of a vehicle, a display device mounted on a rear mirror, A display device to be installed, and the like. Also, the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m may include an apparatus for outputting only audio information such as an audio player.

The vehicle terminal 200 transmits display apparatus information to the portable terminal 100 and receives contents processed and edited according to the display method of the display apparatuses 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m . The vehicle terminal 200 can display the contents transmitted from the portable terminal 100 on the corresponding display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., and 300-m.

To this end, the vehicle terminal 200 may include vehicle terminal software 220.

The vehicle terminal software 220 transmits the display device information of the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., and 300-m to the portable terminal software 110, The contents to be processed and edited can be displayed on the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., and 300-m.

The vehicle terminal software 220 may include an expression recognition unit 221 and an expression control unit 223.

The display mode determination unit 221 performs a function of grasping the display mode of the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., and 300-m provided in or connected to the vehicle terminal 200 in real time.

Here, the display mode may include a content display type of the display device, a screen size, a screen resolution, and screen division information.

The content presentation type may be for a displayable form such as text, code, voice, still image, and moving image. The type of providing information in the vehicle navigation service according to the embodiment may also be defined as the content display type. The types that provide information in the vehicle navigation service include a full map type that provides vehicle movement direction information together with an electronic map, a turn by turn type that provides vehicle movement direction information in the form of an arrow, A text type that provides vehicle movement direction information in a text form, and a voice type that provides vehicle movement direction information by voice.

The screen division information is information on a state in which one screen is divided into a plurality of display areas as illustrated in Fig. The screen division information may include information about the number of display areas formed by dividing the screen of the display device, the content to be displayed determined for each display area, the display area size, and the content display type.

The content to be displayed may be predetermined for each display area. For example, as shown in Fig. 3, audio is displayed in the display area 10, navigation is made in the display area 20, moving pictures are displayed in the display area 30, messages are displayed in the display area 40, . Of course, when the user touches each of the display areas 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50, the vehicle terminal software 220 may guide the content type or the application that can be specified in the corresponding display area, .

If the screen division state is changed, such as the number, the size, and the position of the display areas displayed on the screen according to the selection of the user, the display format determination unit 221 can grasp it in real time.

The display control unit 223 transmits the display device information including the display mode of the display device recognized by the display mode grasping unit 221 to the portable terminal software 110 and is processed and edited in the portable terminal software 110 The contents to be transmitted can be displayed on the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m.

The display control unit 223 may determine the content display type according to the screen division state of the display device and transmit the determined content display type to the portable terminal software 110. [ For example, when the navigation information is displayed as a full map type as shown in FIG. 4 and the size of the navigation display area is changed to be small and it is inappropriate to display the navigation information in the full map type, the content display type may be changed to a turn- To the portable terminal software 110 so as to be changed.

Then, the portable terminal software 110 can edit the navigation information to only the contents necessary for the vehicle operation guidance without a map, as shown in the display area 20 in FIG. 3, and transmit it to the vehicle terminal 200 for display. Of course, if the size of the display area of the navigation information becomes larger than the reference, the navigation information which is expressed as a turn-by-turn type, a text type, or a speech type may be changed to a full map type as illustrated in FIG.

In this way, in the portable terminal 100, the navigation application continuously generates navigation information in the full map type regardless of the display method of the expression device, and the portable terminal software 110 generates the full map type according to the expression method of the expression device The navigation information to be transmitted to the vehicle terminal 200 as it is, or can be processed and edited in a turn-by-turn type, text type, voice type, or the like.

The portable terminal software 110 may be configured to display the contents in accordance with the display state and the display mode of the display device determined to display the contents even for other contents provided in the respective applications of the portable terminal 100. [ So that the content can be processed and edited appropriately.

Assuming that the application executed in the portable terminal 100 is a media player, the portable terminal software 110 directly displays the media player screen including the video player area, the playlist information area, the menu selection area, the play button, Or a combination of only a part of the content playback area, the playlist area, the menu selection area, the play button, the stop button, and the like.

For example, in the smallest case, only the sound information of the currently playing content is transmitted in the media player, or only the sound information and the still image are transmitted, or only the moving picture and the play list information are transmitted. It can be implemented so that it can be processed and edited.

On the other hand, the display control unit 223 displays the content currently displayed in the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m and the display device You can adjust the display method.

For example, when full-map type navigation information is being displayed, the display control unit 223 divides the screen of the display device 210 as shown in FIG. 4 The navigation information and the telephone reception image can be displayed in a state in which they are separated from each other. On the other hand, if the phone receiving image is transmitted from the portable terminal 100 in a state where the contents such as moving pictures and music are being displayed on the display device 210, the display control unit 223 is displayed first as shown in FIG. 5 It is also possible to overlay the telephone receiving image on the content screen.

As described above, the display control unit 223 displays the screen division status of the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m so that the content related to the vehicle driving safety, such as navigation information, You can adjust or adjust the way content is displayed.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a vehicle terminal system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 7, the vehicle terminal 200 can grasp the display mode of the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2,..., 300-m mounted on the vehicle (S710). The vehicle terminal 200 can display the type of display device (e.g., an AVN terminal monitor, a head-up display, etc.) when the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., and 300-m are connected to the vehicle terminal 200, It is possible to grasp the content type, screen size, screen resolution, and the like that can be output from the apparatus, and to grasp information on the screen division information and the content to be displayed specified by the user in real time.

Next, the vehicle terminal 200 can provide the display device information including the display mode of the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m to the portable terminal 100 (S720).

Steps S710 and S720 may be repeatedly performed every predetermined period or whenever a new display device is connected or the display mode is changed while the vehicle terminal 200 and the portable terminal 100 are connected.

Meanwhile, the portable terminal 100 can process and edit the contents generated in the applications 110-1, 110-2, ..., 110-n of the portable terminal 100 according to the display mode (S730). In step S730, the applications 110-1, 110-2, ..., and 110-n can generate content in an original manner regardless of the display method of the display device, The contents can be processed and edited in the software 110 according to the display method of the display device.

The contents edited and edited in step S730 are transmitted from the portable terminal 100 to the vehicle terminal 200 (S740). In step S740, a method of delivering content from the mobile terminal 100 to the vehicle terminal 200 may be mirroring, drawing, data sharing, or the like.

Next, the vehicle terminal 200 may transmit the contents transmitted in step S740 to the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., and 300-m to be output and display the contents (S750).

When the contents are further transmitted from the portable terminal 100 (S760-Y), the vehicle terminal 200 displays the contents according to the display status of the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m (S780). For example, according to the contents currently displayed in the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m and the characteristics of the contents further transmitted from the portable terminal 100, other contents are overlaid on one content Or the screen may be divided so that the respective contents are displayed in a separated state.

On the other hand, if the display state of the display devices 210, 300-1, 300-2, ..., 300-m outputting the contents is changed (S770-Y) The display method such as the content output type can be adjusted and changed in real time (S780). When the display mode change is changed (S780-Y), the vehicle terminal 200 transmits the changed display mode to the portable terminal 100 (S720), and the content is edited and transmitted by the portable terminal 100 (S730, S740).

Embodiments of the present invention include a computer-readable medium having program instructions for performing various computer-implemented operations. The medium records a program for executing the above-described method. The medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc., alone or in combination. Examples of such media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD and DVD, programmed instructions such as floptical disk and magneto-optical media, ROM, RAM, And a hardware device configured to store and execute the program. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, Of the right.

Claims (13)

A display mode grasping unit for grasping the display mode of the display device mounted on the vehicle, and
A display control unit for providing the display mode of the display device to a portable terminal located in the vehicle and receiving the content processed and edited in accordance with the display mode in the portable terminal,
. The method of claim 1,
The mobile terminal includes:
An application that creates content, and
A portable terminal software for processing contents edited by the application in accordance with a display method of the display device and transmitting the contents to the vehicle terminal
. The method of claim 1,
The display method of the display device may include:
A content display type, a screen size, a screen resolution, and a screen division information. 4. The method of claim 3,
The content generated by the application is vehicle navigation information for guiding the vehicle moving direction information to the driver,
The content presentation type may include:
A full map type in which vehicle movement direction information is provided together with an electronic map, a turn by turn type in which vehicle movement direction information is provided in the form of an arrow, A text type, and a voice type that provides voice movement direction information of the vehicle,
The content processing /
Wherein the navigation device selects a part of the vehicle navigation information generated by the application according to the content display type of the display device and edits it into a form that can be displayed on the display device. 4. The method of claim 3,
The above-
A display area size, and a content display type determined for each of the display areas, the number of display areas formed by dividing the screen of the display device; The method of claim 5,
Wherein when the size of the display area is changed, the content display type of the display area is changed according to the changed size. The method of claim 1,
The display control unit includes:
And adjusts the display mode of the display device according to a characteristic of a content currently displayed in the display device and a content further transmitted from the portable terminal. Determining a display mode of the display device mounted on the vehicle,
Providing the display mode of the display device to the portable terminal, and
A step of receiving contents processed and edited in accordance with the above-described display method and displaying the contents generated in the application of the portable terminal on the display device
To the vehicle terminal. 9. The method of claim 8,
The display method of the display device may include:
A content display type, a screen size, a screen resolution, and screen division information. The method of claim 9,
The content generated by the application is vehicle navigation information for guiding the vehicle moving direction information to the driver,
The content presentation type may include:
A full map type in which vehicle movement direction information is provided together with an electronic map, a turn by turn type in which vehicle movement direction information is provided in the form of an arrow, A text type, and a voice type that provides voice movement direction information of the vehicle,
And selecting a part of the vehicle navigation information generated by the application in accordance with the content display type of the display device, and editing the display in a form that can be displayed on the display device. The method of claim 9,
The above-
A display area size, and a content display type determined by the number of display areas formed by dividing the screen of the display device, and a display target content determined for each display area. 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein when the size of the display area is changed, the content display type of the display area is changed according to the changed size. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the display method of the display device is adjusted according to the characteristics of the content currently displayed in the display device and the content further transmitted from the portable terminal.

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