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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2014
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Akama, Cupertino, CA (US);
Naoto Furuyama, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yoshihiro Mishio, Shioya-Gun, JP;
Yuji Yokota, Utsunomiya, JP;
Motohiro Kubo, Osaka, JP;
Takuya Katoh, Kawagoe, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A mobile terminal that performs communication with an onboard device includes: a communication control unit configured to control reception of information instructing to switch a sound source which is transmitted from the onboard device, the information including information indicating an application program which is executed in the terminal serving as the sound source, and transmission of a sound, played by an application program operating in a foreground of the terminal, to the onboard device; a switching unit configured to switch an application program having been in operation in a foreground until immediately before, to a background, on the basis of the received information instructing to switch a sound source, and to switch an application program having been in operation in a background until immediately before, to a foreground; and a sound control unit configured to stop playing a sound of the application program having been in operation in a foreground until immediately before, and to start playing a sound of the application program having been in operation in a background until immediately before, subsequently to the stop.