Patent ID: 7262406

Claim:
An accessory mounting system suitable for mounting a plurality of accessories at a windshield portion within the interior cabin of a vehicle, said system comprising: a housing; said housing adapted for releasable mounting to a receiving structure on the interior surface of the windshield of the vehicle; at least two accessories housed in said housing; one of said at least two accessories selected from the group consisting of a forwardly-viewing camera and a forwardly-viewing rain sensor; another of said at least two accessories selected from the group consisting of: a) a vehicle altitude sensor, b) a vehicle incline sensor, c) a headlamp sensor, d) a daylight sensor, e) a geographic positioning satellite (GPS) transmitter, f) a geographic positioning satellite (GPS) receiver, g) an antenna, h) a camera, i) a microphone, j) a compass sensor, k) a rain sensor and l) a photosensor; and said at least one of said two accessories viewing through the windshield of the vehicle when said housing is mounted to said receiving structure.