| US 7,496,438 B2 | ||
| In-vehicle equipment system | ||
| Hiroshi Amano, Tokyo (Japan); Takao Takahashi, Tokyo (Japan); Eiji Yamamoto, Saitama (Japan); Hideyuki Uemura, Kanagawa (Japan); Kenji Nagashima, Kanagawa (Japan); and Takumi Arie, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 21, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/16,811. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-004790 (JP), filed on Jan. 09, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0041351 A1, Feb. 23, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60R 22/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 701—48 [701/200; 455/899] | 8 Claims |
| 1. An in-vehicle equipment system comprising:
front-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged at a front portion of a vehicle inner space, the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment
including an integrated audio unit;
rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged at a rear portion of the vehicle inner space; and
connection adapted to connect said front-mounted in-vehicle equipment and said rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment; wherein
said rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment is configured to control said front-mounted in-vehicle equipment via an input means,
said rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment is configured to make a transfer request for title information for music data from
said front-mounted in-vehicle equipment, edit the title information or order of music data, and send the results of editing
back to said front-mounted in-vehicle equipment, the title information including a song title, and
said front-mounted in-vehicle equipment is configured to deny the transfer request from said rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment.
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