Patent ID: 7301441
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicle boarding environment controlling system constituted by a boarding environment controlling apparatus mounted on a vehicle and that communicates with an outside communication device, said boarding environment controlling system comprising: personal authentication detecting means that detects personal authentication; communication means for communicating with said boarding environment controlling apparatus; a communication device equipped with said personal authentication detecting means and said communication means; personal authentication processing means mounted on said communication device for performing a personal authentication process based on personal authentication information detected by said personal authentication detecting means mounted on said communication device; transmission means for transmitting to the boarding environment controlling apparatus, the personal authentication information and a personal ID processed by the personal authentication processing means; registration storing means which, in association with the personal authentication information and the personal ID of each of a plurality of persons to be authenticated in said personal authenticating process, stores registrations of setting status information denoting a predetermined boarding environment of said vehicle; wherein the registrations are stored in at least a vehicle body-related setting table, an audio/video setting table, and a content management information file; the vehicle body-related setting table including setting status information relating to settings of at least mirrors and seat positions in the vehicle; the audio/video setting table including setting status information relating to settings of audio/video equipment in the vehicle; the content management information file including a content list of audio/video content loaded into a media player in the vehicle; attestation means for attesting to a match between the personal authentication information and personal ID transmitted by the transmission means and the personal authentication information and the personal ID stored in the registration storing means; attestation transmission means for transmitting to the communication means an attestation result from the attestation means; setting control instruction transmission means for transmitting setting control instructions to the boarding environment controller from the communication means based on the attestation result transmitted by the attestation transmission means; setting status controlling means for changing the status of settings to a registered boarding environment in a vehicle based on the setting status information and corresponding setting control instructions transmitted by the setting control instruction transmission means.