In-vehicle apparatus and control method of in-vehicle apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYoshiyuki Nezu, Makoto Sasaki, Satoshi Yamazaki
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an in-vehicle apparatus and a control method of an in-vehicle apparatus, which is applied to a multimedia terminal having, for example, a function of navigation equipment and a function of video playback so as to improve usability to a user in a case of accepting an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander. According to the present invention, a touch panel menu screen suitable for an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander menu screen suitable for an operation through a remote commander are switched to be displayed so as to accept an operation by a user.
Claims5
An in-vehicle system, comprising:
- an in-vehicle apparatus including:
- a controller;
- a touch panel;
- a display unit configured to display a touch panel menu screen visually formatted for operation through the touch panel and to display a remote commander menu screen visually formatted for operation through a remote commander, and
- a receiving unit configured to receive remote commands;
- the remote commander configured to perform processing corresponding to the selected menu by sending commands to the in-vehicle apparatus via the receiving unit,
- wherein the touch panel menu screen and the remote commander menu screen are interchanged in response to an operation by a user, and
- the operation by the user is accepted through both the touch panel menu screen and the remote commander menu screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.