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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2018
Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Mie, JP;
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Mie, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Shinichi Aiba, Mie, JP;
Hiroshi Ueda, Mie, JP;
Masayuki Inoue, Mie, JP;
Hiroshi Tateishi, Mie, JP;
Shogo Kamiguchi, Mie, JP;
AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Yokkaichi, JP;
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Yokkaichi, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a program updating device, program updating system, and a program updating method for updating a program without imposing a load on a user. A program updating device ('PUD') includes a communication unit transmitting/receiving information to/from an in-vehicle device operating on a software program, the PUD transmitting update information of a software program from the communication unit to execute update processing, further including: a determination unit configured to determine whether an operation switch of a vehicle has been switched from an on-state to an off-state; a state control unit configured to, if it is determined that the operation switch has been switched to the off-state, instruct to transition to a driving-prohibition state and hold an ignition-on state; and an update processing unit configured to start update processing based on the update information after confirming of a state is made.