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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akihiro Ogasawara, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
Abstract
An in-vehicle accessory system for an audio and navigation system includes a control device, a display, a TV tuner, a DVD player, a VCR, a GPS receiver and a switching circuit. The control device includes a ROM. The control device determines a region in which a vehicle is located based on a signal from the GPS receiver. Then, the control device determines whether outputting video signals to the display is permitted in the region based on information stored in the ROM. If the video display is prohibited in the region, the control device turns off the switching circuit to disable the video signal output from the TV tuner, DVD player or VCR.