ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,750, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"In-vehicle system and signal processing method" was invented by Kazuhito Tanaka (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle system includes a basic system provided in a vehicle, and an additional system to be added to the vehicle. When the basic system and the additional system execute processing in cooperation, in a first mode in which transmission and reception of a video signal and an audio signal are not performed between the basic system and the additional system, transmission of a control signal for controlling the a...