Abstract: This invention relates to multimedia computer equipment for automatic transmission of multimedia entertainment programmes, for example travel information for trips in motor vehicles. The equipment (1) comprises a fixed computer terminal installed, for example, in a travel agency (11), an on-board computer terminal (50) installed in the motor vehicle (51), facilities for transmission (100) of parameters relating to a trip, facilities for storage (150) of the multimedia programmes for transmission and facilities for locating (200) the vehicle using the global positioning system known as GPS receivers (201) incorporated in the vehicle. The locating facilities (200) are set up to communicate with the on-board computer terminal (50) in such a way as to transmit appropriate multimedia programmes contained in the storage facilities (150) as a function of the parameters of the trip, the vehicle's geographical location and/or the hour and/or date.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 1998
Date of Patent:
November 28, 2000
Assignee:
Integral Media S.A.
Inventors:
Eddy Pereira, Nicolas Gaudard, Francis Piot