MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514115174 A) filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha on November 21, 2025, for In-Vehicle System, Vehicle, And Information Processing Apparatus.
Inventors include Tanaka, Seiichi; Fujiwara, Tatsuro -; Tsujino, Miki; Onishi, Kanta; Kobatake, Yasuhiro; and Yokoyama, Yuu.
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes a display device, and an information processing apparatus configured to output information via the display device. The display device includes a pair of display units that are provided in a forward portion of a driver's seat in a passenger compartment, are disposed at positions on both sides of a steering wheel while protruding rearward of an instrument unit disposed in front of the steering wheel, and have touch panels; and the information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute: obtaining touch operations performed on each of the pair of display units; obtaining sensor data indicating a state of holding the steering wheel by a driver; and performing, based on the sensor data, a disabling process of at least partially disabling the touch operations on at least one of the pair of display units.
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