Patent ID: 8147080
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: H01H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A personal control unit (PCU) for controlling an entertainment or communications system in a vehicle, comprising: a case; a top surface comprising a rounded and elongated region comprising: an illumination source or sources located within the case, wherein the illumination source comprises a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) including at least two different types of the LEDs, and illumination from the illumination source is transmitted through the one or more illumination regions to a user of the PCU; and an illumination diffuser located between the illumination source and the illumination regions of the top surface, wherein the rounded and elongated region is race-track shaped, comprising two semi-circles at opposite ends joined by parallel lines, wherein a first type of the LEDs are laid out to positionally correspond with a border of the rounded and elongated region to illuminate a region adjacent to the border of the rounded and elongated region, and a second type of the LEDs are laid out positionally to reside within the rounded and elongated region and more towards a center of the rounded and elongated region than the first type of the LEDs.