Patent ID: 6339455
Filing Date: 2002-01-15
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
A digital-video-disc vehicle television comprising:an overhead TV housing having a front edge from which a thin TV screen is pivotal adjustably from a stowage space and having a rear edge with a disc slot for a digital video disc; an audiovisual receiver, a power source, a speaker, a DVD player and a control unit intermediate the stowage space and the disc slot; audiovisual signaling being receivable from remote broadcasting sources by the audiovisual receiver; player audiovisual signaling being receivable from the digital video disc by the DVD player; audio characteristics of the broadcast audiovisual signaling and audio characteristics of the player audiovisual signaling being directed to the speaker by the control unit selectively; visual characteristics of the broadcast audiovisual signaling and visual characteristics of the player audiovisual signaling being directed to the thin TV screen by the control unit selectively; a control panel positioned proximate the control unit; the control panel having predetermined finger-operative control members in predetermined control communication with predetermined features of the control unit; the overhead TV housing having a predetermined thickness from a top overhead base to an overhead bottom; the overhead TV housing having a predetermined length from the front edge to the disc slot; and the overhead TV housing having a predetermined side-to-side width.