Patent ID: 7428454

Claim:
An electronic control system built into a vehicle, the system comprising: an input device for receiving a plurality of manual input operations, wherein the input operations can be simultaneously and independently input by an occupant of a driver's seat and an occupant of a passenger's seat; a processing device for independently processing each of the plurality of input operations and outputting respective processed results corresponding to each of the plurality of input operations; and a display device for independently showing the respective processed results; wherein the processing device assigns a task to any one of the input operations; the processing device comprises: a task content changing device for making the task be inherited and executed as a task assigned to another input operation; and an input operation interruption determining device for determining whether any one of the input operations has been interrupted; and wherein when it is determined by the input operation interruption determining device that any one of the input operations has been interrupted, the task content changing device makes the task assigned to the interrupted input operation be inherited and executed as a task assigned to another input operation.