Patent ID: 7750795

Claim:
An in-vehicle system that is mounted in a vehicle and is so constructed that one warning lamp from a plurality of warning lamps on a meter panel lights up or flashes in correspondence with an occurrence of an anomaly in the vehicle, comprising: means for displaying information; means for notifying the occurrence of the anomaly, the notifying means including the displaying means; means for controlling the notifying means to provide detailed warning lamp information about the one warning lamp when the one warning lamp on the meter panel lights up or flashes; and first means for communicating with an operator system or a dealer system through a network; wherein the displaying means displays a warning icon and a help icon that identify a cause of the anomaly or a device associated with the anomaly; the controlling means causes the displaying means to display the detailed warning lamp information about the one warning lamp when the warning icon displayed on the displaying means is operated by a user as a first predetermined operation; and the controlling means causes the first communicating means to establish a communication line between the first communicating means and the operator system or the dealer system when the help icon displayed on the displaying means is operated by the user as a second predetermined operation.