Patent ID: 7142696

Claim:
An assistance device in a vehicle, comprising: a computer; an arrangement for recognition of persons and being connected to the computer; a data source connected to the computer; an arrangement for representation and being connected to the computer; and an arrangement for performing a data reception and being connected to the computer, wherein: the computer, as a function of a person recognized by the arrangement for recognition of persons, loads a user profile valid for a person recognized from a memory, in order to load data from the data source corresponding to the user profile, and to set the arrangement for performing the data reception and the arrangement for representation; the arrangement for data reception is configured to receive a broadband digital wireless signal including a signal for digital radio stations, multimedia data being received via the digital radio stations, and a setting being transferred from the user profile in accordance with the multimedia data; the data sources includes a navigation device; and the arrangement for representation includes a display, the user profile determining which multimedia data are received, which settings are made on the navigation device, and which information is displayed on the display.