Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Kazuhisa Shitanaka

Toshihiro Oka

Takashi Yanagisawa

Yoshifumi Nakabora

A vehicular audio/visual system that receives a transmitted electric wave of video or sound, and that outputs the electric wave by switching to an output mode corresponding to user's instruction from among output modes corresponding to multiple types of media includes: a positional information detecting unit that detects positional information of a vehicle; a receiving area storage unit that stores at least one of an area in which the electric wave can be received and an area in which it is difficult to receive the electric wave; a receiving area determination unit that refers to the receiving area storage unit on the basis of the detected positional information and determines whether the electric wave can be received; an output mode switching unit that prohibits an output mode that outputs the electric wave as video or music from being entered when it is determined that the electric wave cannot be received.

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Toyota, Japan

Kazuhisa Shitanaka