iPhone Company Apply For New Powerful Function Patent of IOV
iPhone Company always pay more attention to Car Market, which is proofed by recently publishing an iPhone company's patent. The patent is likely to reveal the future Car Play Some advanced features, such as when the user is close to the car, the vehicle automatically unlock the doors, start the engine and so on.
According to Apple Insider Reported that the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently granted Apple's U.S. patent No.8,868,254- "Geo-fence subsidiary control system", simply, that iPhone Into a sophisticated car Remote Control Of course the car needs to carry similar Car Play Car service.
According to the patent description, the remote system can be based on "Geo-fence"Intelligent monitoring And calling the car a few features.
First, install a specific vehicle accessory(For example,Car Play Equipment)And the attachment to work with iPhone Establish a connection, making the car capable of location-based information and iPhone To communicate.
When iPhone Upon receipt of the signal issued by the car, it is possible to generate a virtual fence around the car, to monitor the position of the vehicle relative to the mobile phone. Once the phone with the car down to a predetermined distance, the phone can automatically send a control signal to the car accessories - doors automatically unlock or engine automatically.
In order to prevent accidents, you can set specific control rules. For example, the user must wait to sit on the driver's seat, auto accessories to start the car engine.
In addition, you can set up multiple different geographic fence, the corresponding control various vehicle functions. For example, a layer of Geo-fence is set to open or unlock the doors, while another Geo-fence were set to open the engine. Or, when carrying iPhone When the owners are very close to the rear, the trunk is a smart turn.
In some embodiments described in the patent Case In Car Products Also with cellular connectivity. At this time,iPhone Can continue Monitoring The user's mobile, and location information is fed back to the car accessories. When determined that the user will 5 When the vehicle arrived minutes later, the car will be ahead of the open air, the indoor temperature is adjusted to the optimum state.
There can not determine whether and when the patent Apple applied Car Play. And we also know that automobile manufacturers in the treatment Car Play Not very positive attitude, which led to the promotion of the service is very slow, is also equipped with only Ferrari launched Car Play New car.