Patent Application
20200384953
The present patent application claims the priority of Japanese patent application No. 2017/232373 filed on Dec. 4, 2017, and the entire contents of Japanese patent application No. 2017/232373 are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to an on-board device and a personal information management system.
A vehicle anti-theft device is known, which is provided with a mobile device authentication means which authenticates a mobile device based on identification information received from the mobile device, a driver authentication means which acquires driver identification information unique to a driver and authenticates the driver as a pre-registered driver based on comparison with pre-registered driver identification information, an information input means receiving an input of setting information which is information set by the registered driver, and an authentication control means which selects either authentication using the driver authentication means or authentication based on the setting information input by the registered driver and controls start of a vehicle based on an authentication result from the selected authentication and an authentication result provided by the mobile device authentication means (see, e.g., Patent Literature 1).
This vehicle anti-theft device uses biometric information of the driver as the driver identification information.
The vehicle anti-theft device disclosed in Patent Literature 1 has a problem that when, e.g., the owner of the vehicle changes, personal information such as biometric information of a previous owner, which has been left undeleted, is left in the vehicle.
It is an object of the invention to provide an on-board device and a personal information management system which are capable of deleting personal information left undeleted after an owner of a vehicle has changed.
According to an embodiment of the invention, an on-board device comprises: a storage unit that stores personal information of a user of a vehicle; and a control unit that deletes the personal information of the user stored in the storage unit, based on an input of an instruction signal that is output when relevant information associating information of the vehicle with information of the user of the vehicle is updated.
According to another embodiment of the invention, a personal information management system comprises: a registration device in which relevant information associating information of a vehicle with information of a user of the vehicle is registered; and an on-board device that comprises a storage unit storing personal information of the user of the vehicle, and a control unit that deletes the personal information of the user stored in the storage unit in response to an instruction signal that is output when the relevant information is updated in the registration device.
According to an embodiment of the invention, it is possible to provide an on-board device and a personal information management system which are capable of deleting personal information left undeleted after an owner of a vehicle has changed.
An on-board device in an embodiment has a storage unit that stores personal information of a user of a vehicle, and a control unit that deletes the personal information of the user stored in the storage unit in response to an instruction signal that is output when relevant information associating information of the vehicle with information of the user of the vehicle is updated in a registration device in which the relevant information is registered.
The on-board device deletes personal information left in a vehicle in response to an instruction signal which is output due to updating of relevant information in the registration device. Therefore, unlike when such a configuration is not adopted, personal information left undeleted can be deleted after an owner of a vehicle has changed.
A personal information management system in another embodiment has a registration device in which relevant information associating information of a vehicle with information of a user of the vehicle is registered, and an on-board device that comprises a storage unit storing personal information of a user of a vehicle and a control unit that deletes the personal information of the user stored in the storage unit in response to an instruction signal that is output when the relevant information is updated in the registration device.
This personal information management system deletes personal information left in a vehicle by an instruction signal which is output due to updating of the relevant information in the registration device. Therefore, unlike when such a configuration is not adopted, personal information left undeleted can be deleted after an owner of a vehicle has changed.
An on-board device 1 is mounted on a vehicle to manage personal information 41 of users including the owner of the vehicle. The vehicle here is used by, e.g., plural users (User A to User C, as an example), as shown in
Meanwhile, in a personal information management system 9, e.g., a management table 92 associating sold vehicles and owners thereof is generated and managed in a server (e.g., a registration device 91) installed in a vehicle retailer such as dealer, as shown in
The on-board device 1 has, e.g., a storage unit 4 which stores the personal information 41 of the users of the vehicle, and a control unit 6 which deletes the personal information 41 of the users stored in the storage unit 4 in response to an instruction signal S2 which is output when relevant information (the management table 92) associating information of the vehicle with information of the users is updated in the registration device 91 in which the management table 92 is registered, as shown in
Meanwhile, the personal information management system 9 has, e.g., the registration device 91 in which the management table 92 associating information of the vehicle with information of the users of the vehicle is registered, and the on-board device 1 provided with the storage unit 4 storing the personal information 41 of the users of the vehicle and the control unit 6 which deletes the personal information 41 of the users stored in the storage unit 4 in response to the instruction signal S2 which is output due to updating of the management table 92 in the registration device 91, as shown in
The personal information 41 of each user includes at least biometric information 42 of the user. As an example, the biometric information 42 includes fingerprint, vein, facial image, iris, etc., used to create a biometric authentication template.
The on-board device 1 is further provided with, e.g., a personal information registration unit 2 which receives registration of the personal information 41, as shown in
The personal information management system 9 enables, e.g., exchange of signals such as the instruction signal S2 and information via a cloud 90, as shown in
The cloud 90 is, e.g., a server on a network which allows signals and information to be exchanged wirelessly and reciprocally.
The personal information registration unit 2 is used to register the personal information 41. As an example, the personal information registration unit 2 is configured to register user's information such as fingerprint, facial image, iris, full name, birth date, email address, password, etc., as shown in
Text data such as full name, birth date and email address is registered using a touchpad or a virtual keyboard, etc. Biometric information such as fingerprint, facial image, iris is registered, e.g., as follows.
Fingerprint is registered using, e.g., a sensor configured to read the fingerprint pattern, such as optical, capacitive, electrical field intensity measurement, pressure-sensitive, or thermal, etc.
Vein of an operating finger or palm is registered using, e.g., a sensor configured to read the vein pattern based on reflection of emitted infrared light.
Facial image is registered using, e.g., a sensor configured to read an uneven shape on a subject based on depths at plural measurement points on the captured subject.
Iris is registered using, e.g., a sensor configured to read an iris by emitting infrared light and processing the captured image.
The personal information registration unit 2 generates and outputs, e.g., registration information S1 based on information to be registered.
The storage unit 4 is constructed from, e.g., a HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or a semiconductor memory, etc. The storage unit 4 in the present embodiment is a semiconductor memory. This semiconductor memory may be a RAM mounted on the control unit 6.
The storage unit 4 is configured to generate, e.g., a table 40 based on the registration information S1 acquired from the personal information registration unit 2, as shown in
The table 40 contains, e.g., the personal information 41 including the biometric information 42 associated with each user, as shown in
The control unit 6 is, e.g., a microcomputer composed of a CPU performing calculation and processing, etc., of the acquired data according to a stored program, and a RAM and a ROM which are semiconductor memories. The ROM stores, e.g., a program for operation of the control unit 6. The RAM is used as, e.g., a storage area for temporarily storing calculation results, etc. The control unit 6 also has, inside thereof, a means for generating a clock signal and operates based on the clock signal.
When the instruction signal S2 output from the registration device 91 is input via the cloud 90, the control unit 6 deletes the left personal information 41 by controlling the storage unit 4. For example, the personal information 41 of a previous owner, when left in the vehicle, may be abused or may remain as a candidate biometric information 42 for authentication and result in that authentication takes long time. Due to updating of the management table 92, i.e., by receiving an input of the instruction signal S2 indicating that the owner of the vehicle has changed, the control unit 6 deletes the personal information 41 which has been left undeleted.
For example, as a method of deleting the personal information 41, the control unit 6 initializes the table 40. The control unit 6 deletes, e.g., all personal information 41 registered by the user A to the user C shown in
The registration device 91 is provided with, e.g., the management table 92 in which at least the name of the vehicle user and the vehicle name are associated.
When, e.g., registration of a user name (∘∘∘∘) is deleted as shown in
The instruction signal S2 gives an instruction to delete the personal information 41 left in the storage unit 4 of the on-board device 1. In response to an input of the instruction signal S2, the on-board device 1 initializes the table 40 including the information 41 left in the storage unit 4.
An example of an operation of the on-board device 1 in the present embodiment will be described below along with the flowchart in
When it is “Yes” in Step 1, i.e., when the instruction signal S2 is input via the cloud 90 (Step 1: Yes), the control unit 6 of the on-board device 1 deletes all personal information 41 of the table 40 left in the storage unit 4 (Step 2) and ends the process.
The on-board device 1 in the present embodiment can delete the personal information 41 left undeleted after an owner of a vehicle has changed. In detail, in response to the instruction signal S2 which is output due to updating of the management table 92 in the registration device 91, the on-board device 1 deletes the personal information 41 which is left in the vehicle. Therefore, unlike when such a configuration is not adopted, the personal information 41 left undeleted can be deleted after an owner of a vehicle has changed. Since the on-board device 1 can delete the personal information 41 which has been left undeleted, user's privacy is protected.
The on-board device 1 can delete not only the personal information 41 but also the biometric information 42 included in the personal information 41 and thus can prevent abuse of the biometric information 42, unlike when biometric information is not deleted and left in the vehicle.
In the on-board device 1, if the biometric information 42 of a previous owner is left even though the owner of the vehicle has changed, this unnecessary biometric information 42 is still used at the time of authentication by verification of the biometric information 42 and this may cause an increase in authentication time. However, since the on-board device 1 can delete the biometric information 42 which has been left undeleted, it is possible to prevent an increase in authentication time.
When the management table 92 is updated in the registration device 91, the personal information management system 9 outputs the instruction signal S2 via the cloud 90 to the on-board device 1 and thereby deletes the personal information 41 left in the vehicle. Therefore, unlike when such a configuration is not adopted, the personal information 41 left undeleted can be deleted after an owner of a vehicle has changed. Since the personal information management system 9 can delete the personal information 41 which has been left undeleted, user's privacy is protected.
The personal information management system 9 can delete not only the personal information 41 but also the biometric information 42 included in the personal information 41 and thus can prevent abuse of the biometric information 42, unlike when biometric information is not deleted and left in the vehicle.
Since the personal information management system 9 can delete the biometric information 42 which has been left undeleted, it is possible to prevent an increase in authentication time of the vehicle.
Although the embodiments of the invention have been described, the embodiments are merely an example and the invention according to claims is not to be limited thereto. The new embodiments may be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, substitutions and changes, etc., can be made without departing from the gist of the invention. In addition, all combinations of the features described in the embodiments are not necessary to solve the problem of the invention. Further, the embodiments are included within the scope and gist of the invention and also within the invention described in the claims and the range of equivalency.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-232373 | Dec 2017 | JP | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/JP2018/042578 | 11/16/2018 | WO | 00 |
