Reception control system for automobile
AssigneeHarada Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasatoshi Saitoh, Hiroyuki Tachihara, Hidemichi Inoue, Richard Langley, David Briggs
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Abstract
A reception control system for automobiles according to the present invention includes tuners for a plurality of receivers for receiving various types of waves including at least an AM/FM broadcast wave, a TV broadcast wave and a GPS wave. The tuners are separated from receiver bodies and integrally incorporated into an antenna section (a plurality of antenna elements+an AM/FM reception circuit+a TV reception circuit) including at least a plurality of antenna elements. The tuners are supplied with a digital control signal through a LAN provided in an automobile thereby to control reception of waves.
Claims7
A reception control system for automobiles comprising:
- an antenna section having a plurality of windowpane antenna elements comprised of strip conductors adhered to a windowpane of an automobile for receiving various types of waves including at least an AM/FM broadcast wave, a TV broadcast wave, and a GPS wave;
- a plurality of receiver bodies including an AM/FM broadcast receiver body and a TV broadcast receiver body arranged inside said automobile to respectively correspond with said various types of waves received by said plurality of windowpane antenna elements;
- a plurality of tuners respectively separated from at least said AM/FM broadcast receiver body and the TV broadcast body, said plurality of tuners being integrally incorporated into said antenna section for tuning at least said AM/FM broadcast wave, and said TV broadcast wave of the various types of waves;
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- a plurality of microprocessors for controlling reception by supplying a digital control signal, which is transmitted through a LAN provided in the automobile, to said plurality of tuners, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.