Sony Corporation

Hideyuki Uemura

Eiji Yamamoto

Hiroshi Amano

Takumi Arie

Takao Takahashi

Kenji Nagashima

Shinichi Maru

An information providing apparatus allowing appropriate confirmation of contents of information which assists travel of a mobile object, presented by an image display section, even when the image display section providing information which assists travel of the mobile object as an image display is placed under a condition producing vibration not smaller than a predetermined level. The equipment has an image display section () mounted in a vehicle and allowing image display of information which assists travel of the vehicle, a vibration sensor () detecting vibration not smaller than a predetermined level produced on the image display section () and sending a detection output signal, and an operation control section () modifying a display mode of information presented as an image display by the image display section (), into the one having contents of the information are more readily recognizable, when the detection output signal from the vibration sensor () expresses that the image display section () is in a vibration-sustained state in which vibration not smaller than a predetermined level is sustained over a duration of time not shorter than a predetermined duration.

Information providing apparatus

Front-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a front part of a vehicle internal space, rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a rear part of the vehicle internal space, and a connection adapted to connect the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment and the rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment is described. Rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment controls the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment via a keyboard or game controller, thereby allowing a passenger to control the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment in a straightforward manner from the rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment instead of the driver operating the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment. The rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment can be denied access to overwriting information related to music data in the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment.

In-vehicle equipment system

An in-vehicle device having a plurality of output units. The device includes content provision units for individually outputting, to each of users, a piece of content arbitrarily chosen by the user from a plurality of pieces of content, using one of the plurality of output units. The device includes a user recognition unit for individually recognizing the user who receives the piece of content through the one of the plurality of output units. The device includes a storage unit for individually storing the piece of content provided to the user. The device further includes a control unit for, when the user recognition means recognizes that a user to receive the piece of content through the one of the plurality of output units is changed to another user, outputting a piece of content corresponding to the another user by controlling the content provision unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hideyuki Uemura