Patent ID: 6490520
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
A vehicle-mounted information processing device comprising:a platform having vehicle-mounted information processing device hardware and at least a navigation operating system for controlling said information processing device hardware; application processing means for processing using the navigation operating system of said platform; and single interface means for, when transferring information from said platform to said application processing means, transferring the information in a constant data format, and for, when transferring information from said application processing means to said platform, transferring the information in a data format corresponding to the platform, said single interface means including hardware monitor means for monitoring each of a plurality of pieces of hardware included in said vehicle-mounted hardware, event generation means for generating a platform-independent event corresponding to an event generated in any one of the plurality of pieces of hardware detected by said hardware monitor means, and event transmission means for transmitting the platform-independent event generated by said event generation means to said application processing means.