US 7,454,274 B2
In-vehicle device
Hideyuki Uemura, Kanagawa (Japan); Eiji Yamamoto, Saitama (Japan); and Shinichi Maru, Chiba (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 03, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/69,951.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-067857 (JP), filed on Mar. 10, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0234619 A1, Oct. 20, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 701—36 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-vehicle device having a plurality of output means, comprising:
content provision means 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 means;
user recognition means for individually recognizing the user who receives the piece of content through the one of the plurality of output means;
storage means for individually storing the piece of content provided to the user; and
control means for, when said user recognition means recognizes that a user to receive the piece of content through the one of the plurality of output means is changed to another user, outputting a piece of content corresponding to said another user by controlling said content provision means.