A device dock of a vehicle may receive a one-time key over a data connection between the device dock and a vehicle computing system (VCS), and send the one-time key over a location-identifying connection to a nomadic device placed within proximity to the dock, to cause the nomadic device to send the one-time key to the VCS to integrate with the VCS as a driver device. The VCS may receive, from a nomadic device in a device dock, via a data connection between the VCS and the nomadic device, a one-time key provided from the VCS to the device dock over a data connection between the VCS and the device dock, and responsive to receipt of the one-time key from the nomadic device, integrate the nomadic device with the VCS as a driver device.

An echo canceller device includes a band adjuster including a filter for performing band adjustment by applying a gain to a signal in a specific frequency band of an input signal, an adaptive filter for inputting a speech reception signal, updating a filter coefficient, and generating a pseudo echo signal using the updated filter coefficient, a band corrector including a filter for correcting a frequency characteristic of a signal obtained by subtracting the pseudo echo signal from an input signal, to a frequency characteristic of the input signal prior to the band adjustment, and a residual echo suppressor for suppressing an echo component that remains in a signal, by a suppression amount, and the residual echo suppressor sets the suppression amount for a signal in a specific frequency band that has been subjected to the band adjustment.

According to one aspect of one embodiment of the present invention, a safety control system for using applications in vehicles, includes, a communication device having at least one of an input accessible from within the vehicle and an output communicated within the vehicle, at least one sensor operable to sense at least one condition related to vehicle operation, and data about distraction features of a running application, to and a controller communicated with the sensor and the communication device to selectively suppress at least one of said input and said output in response to a sensed parameter of said at least one condition being outside of a threshold. When an input is suppressed, the driver is prevented from accessing or inputting information into the communication device. When an output is suppressed, communication between the device and the driver of a vehicle is suppressed to, among other things, avoid distracting the driver during certain driving situations or conditions relating to the driver, vehicle and/or environment.

A request is received from a user of the mobile computing device. The request specifies that the mobile computing device should be set in a mute mode or in a vibrate mode when the mobile computing device is at a predetermined location. Thereafter, an arrival of the mobile computing at the predetermined location is determined. In response to the detecting the arrival, an audio output volume setting of the mobile computing device is recorded. In response to the detecting the arrival and after the recording, the mobile computing device is set in the mute mode or the vibrate mode. Thereafter, a departure of the mobile computing device from the predetermined location is detected. In response to the detecting the departure, the mobile computing device is restored to the recorded audio output volume setting.

Disclosed are a method for implementing an automobile control system and an electronic device. The method includes: determining whether a mobile phone is inserted into a slot at a preset position of an automobile; connecting the mobile phone to the automobile control system when a determination result is yes; and providing a task processing capacity for the automobile control system by utilizing a mobile phone system.

A method of operating audio, video, navigation (AVN), an AVN, and a vehicle including the same are disclosed. The method includes determining whether a vehicle speaker and a vehicle microphone connected to the AVN is abnormal when a car accident occurs, releasing pairing with a paired terminal and performing role change of changing the terminal to a hands-free unit (HF) when at least one of the vehicle speaker and the vehicle microphone is abnormal, and performing voice call using a speaker and microphone of the terminal.

A keyboard deactivation module includes a processor configured to generate an on-screen keyboard control signal, a CAN bus interface configured to connect to a CAN bus of a vehicle, and obtain vehicle speed information indicating a current speed of the vehicle from the vehicle via the CAN bus, and a Bluetooth radio configured to transmit the on-screen keyboard control signal to a target electronic device. An on-screen keyboard of the target electronic device is enabled in response to receiving the on-screen keyboard control signal while the vehicle speed information indicates that the current speed of the vehicle is below a specified threshold, and the on-screen keyboard of the target electronic device is disabled in response to receiving the on-screen keyboard control signal while the vehicle speed information indicates that the current speed of the vehicle is above a specified threshold. The keyboard deactivation module is mounted in the vehicle.

In embodiments of the present invention, a virtual phone is provided which includes a touch screen mounted on an enclosure that includes a processor, memory, wireless communication port, and a power port. The virtual phone further includes a software application executing on the processor to control image display on the touch screen and emulate features of a handheld device presented in the image in response to a user touching a presented feature. The virtual phone further includes a configuration of a user-specific handheld device that is derived from the user-specific handheld device is stored in a memory that is accessible to the processor; wherein the virtual phone presents a visual representation of the user-specific handheld device on the touch screen based on the configuration.

A communication system includes a first device configured to transmit a signal to each of a first transmission path and a second transmission path provided within a vehicle, a control device configured to control an in-vehicle device on the basis of the signal transmitted to the second transmission path and transmit a signal indicating a result of control to a third transmission path, and a second device configured to detect a fraud state in the vehicle by performing a comparison on the basis of first information included in the signal received from the first transmission path and second information included in the signal received from the third transmission path.

A mobile device (101) includes: a memory for storing contact information of the mobile device, a transceiver for exchanging voice and/or data signals within a telecommunications network, wherein the mobile device is configured to: provide (501, 513) the contact information to a server in the network, initiate (202), in response to a first user input, a first voice connection to the server; and at least one of receive (2051), from the server, command data for initiating (2052) a second voice connection to a called party identified in the contact information; and send (2054) authorization to the server to access user credentials included in the contact information.