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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2006
Applicants:

Satoru Kuragaki, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Jiro Takezaki, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Kimio Nishino, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Toshimichi Minowa, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Tokuji Yoshikawa, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Yoshinori Endo, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Satoru Kuragaki, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Jiro Takezaki, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Kimio Nishino, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Toshimichi Minowa, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Tokuji Yoshikawa, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Yoshinori Endo, Chiyoda-ku, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/32 (2006.01); B60T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control apparatus which makes it possible to share information by a plurality of devices and which can improve controllability. An OS switching means (OS-CH) switches a plurality of operating system (OS, OS). A shared object (CO) has a memory resource which can be referred to from the plurality of operating systems. The shared object (CO) shares at least road information, and the road information registered by the application of one of the operating systems can be referred to from the application of the other operating system.


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