Abstract: A vehicle internal rearview mirror is disclosed to include a casing with a semi-transparent mirror, indicator units mounted in the casing, a data storage device stored with digital format music files, a music player, which is mounted inside the casing, having a digital music file decoder that fetches and decodes digital format music files from the data storage device, and a FM transmitter, which is controlled by the digital music file decoder to send out the decoded digital format music files to the FM radio of the car for output through the car speakers, and a Bluetooth device for controlling the music player to play music and the indicator units to display different information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle security system, which uses a detection circuit to detect the supply of electric power from the car battery to the in-car computer and the status of the car ignition switch, and to start a backup power supply for the in-car computer, and drives the in-car computer to send an informing message to a remote receiver via a wireless communication module when the supply of electric power from the car battery to the in-car computer is terminated or when the car ignition switch is switched on during the alert mode of the vehicle security system.

Abstract: A system for prompting an on-vehicle wireless communication module in poor communication quality and method thereof, in which the in-car computer starts a wireless communication module to detect the receiving quality thereof and to obtain a detecting signal result during the alert mode of the security controller is set after the ignition switch is switched off, and the in-car computer outputs a voice prompt message when the ignition switch is switched on again if the detecting signal result does not surpass a predetermined receiving quality default value. The in-car computer also stores each poor communication quality location in the electronic map so that a voice prompt message is automatically produced when passing each poor communication quality location on a subsequent occasion.

Abstract: A speedometer includes a function storage device, which has stored therein four conversion functions, a selector, which provides four options corresponding to the four conversion functions in the function storage device, and a microprocessor, which counts pulse signals sent by the sensor device of the motor vehicle to obtain a counted total value, selects the corresponding conversion function from the function storage device corresponding to the option selected through the selector according to the quantity of poles (two, four, eight or sixteen) on the drive shaft of the motor vehicle, and puts the counted total value into the selected conversion function for calculation to obtain a car speed value.

Abstract: A serial data transmission system practical for use in a high noise environment, for example, in a car to facilitate accurate transmission of serial data between two electronic apparatus and to improve the signal-to-noise ratio and to save system resources at the receiving connector is disclosed to have an additional control line set between the transmitting connector and the receiving connector for transmitting a control signal from the transmitting connector to the receiving connector during transmission of a serial data such that the receiving connector controls the time to receive data and the time to end the receiving action accurately by means of comparing the control signal to a predefined condition, preventing receiving of noises.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle security system, which includes a security controller and a remote controller. The security controller is electrically connected to sensors and alarms, respectively, and has a memory storing an anti-thief alert grade table. The anti-thief alert grade table records at least two alert grades each having a respective sensitivity default value corresponding to each sensor. The sensitivity default value of each alert grade for each sensor defines the critical actuation value of the respective sensor for the respective alert grade. The remote controller has a control button for pressing to control the security controller to enter the desired alert grade of the alert mode.

Abstract: A short-distance wireless transmission system for data transmission among electronic devices on a motor vehicle is disclosed to have on-vehicle electronic devices defined with a respective identification code and divided into groups with the electronic devices of the same group connected together by a respective bus that is connected to a respective Bluetooth module so that when one electronic device is sending a data through the connected Bluetooth module, the identification code of the destination device is added to the data for enabling the corresponding Bluetooth module to receive the data accurately and to send the data to the destination electronic device through the respective bus.

Abstract: A vehicle service system and a method for returning periodic maintenance mileage thereof is disclosed. The vehicle service system is applied to a vehicle and includes a mileage counter that counts the accumulated total mileage traveled by the car, a wireless communication module, and an in-car computer, which has several predetermined mileages and corresponding event notifications pre-stored in a memory module thereof and, receives the accumulated total mileage from the mileage counter and compares the accumulated total mileage to the predetermined mileages, and drives the wireless communication module to send the corresponding event notification to a remote receiver when the accumulated total mileage is compared in conformity with one of the predetermined mileages.

Abstract: A wireless vehicle burglar-alarm system formed of an on-board main unit and a wireless communication is disclosed. The on-board main unit obtains the CGI (Cell Global Identity) of a wireless communication base station from its broadcast and stores the CGI in a memory, and sends a re-location signal to the on-board main unit when the storage CGI is changed during an alert mode of the on-board main unit, causing the on-board main unit to start the at least one alarm. The on-board main unit sends an alarm signal to an alarm and drives the wireless communication apparatus to send an alarm message to the car owner wirelessly upon detection of an abnormal condition of the car through a sensor.

Abstract: A vehicle burglar alarm system includes a global position system installed in a vehicle for receiving a satellite signal, and an on-vehicle main unit installed in the vehicle and electrically connected with the global position system, the on-vehicle main unit having a first flag, the first flag having a first status without satellite signal and a second status with satellite signal for indicating satellite receiving status of the global position system, the on-vehicle main unit being to output a relocation signal immediately after changing of the first flag from the first status without satellite signal to the second status with satellite signal during burglar alarming mode.

Abstract: Disclosed is a beacon-based traffic control system installed in a motor vehicle for receiving a wireless signal from one of a plurality of beacons that arranged in multiple geographic locations, each beacon being defined to have a respective identification code, each beacon having a short-distance wireless transmitter for transmitting a wireless signal for receiving by the beacon-based traffic control system so that when the motor vehicle is moving to a different geographic location, the beacon-based traffic control system fetches the identification code from the wireless signal of the local beacon and searches the memory thereof to find a corresponding action command and then to execute the action command, controlling the operation of the electronic component of the motor vehicle subject to the action command.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inexpensive, easy-to-install, highly durable vehicle rear side video monitoring system, which uses a CMOS image pickup device to pick up the image of the scene behind the vehicle, and a high brightness LED to provide sufficient illumination for enabling the CMOS image pickup device to pick up the image clearly.

Abstract: A vehicle stereo system installed in a motor vehicle is disclosed to include a global positioning module that calculates the present location data of the motor vehicle, a memory device that has stored therein radio network records, each radio network record containing a plurality of geographic zones, and a plurality of receiving frequencies of a same radio network for use to receive radio programs of the same radio network in the respective geographic zones correspondingly, a vehicle stereo that has a tuner and a speaker, and a microprocessor that fetches the present location data of the motor vehicle, searches the memory device to find out a receiving frequency of the same radio network corresponding to the geographic zone, and controls the tuner to tune the vehicle stereo to the searched receiving frequency for output radio programs of the same radio network through the speaker.

Abstract: A vehicle burglar alarm system includes a global position system installed in a vehicle for receiving a satellite signal, and an on-vehicle main unit installed in the vehicle and electrically connected with the global position system, the on-vehicle main unit having a first flag, the first flag having a first status without satellite signal and a second status with satellite signal for indicating satellite receiving status of the global position system, the on-vehicle main unit being to output a relocation signal immediately after changing of the first flag from the first status without satellite signal to the second status with satellite signal during burglar alarming mode.

Abstract: An inter-vehicle message disseminating method in which every vehicle carries a blue-tooth device (or 802.11 device) to actively login to or to passively accept a login from the respective blue-tooth device (or 802.11 devices) of other vehicles with a common authorization key to make a wireless connection for mutual transmitting message. When a message provided to one first vehicle, the first vehicle transmits the message to a number of second vehicles through the respective blue-tooth device, and then the second vehicles again transmit the message with their respective blue-tooth devices to another third vehicles. To transmit the message generation to generation repeatedly within these vehicles, forming a virus infectious frame to wirelessly disseminate kinds of message of update, advertising/promoting, searching, rescuing, socializing information to everywhere without geographic limitations.

Abstract: A vehicle anti-thief system is disclosed to include an anti-thief controller that controls on-vehicle electronic components of the vehicle to execute a corresponding abnormal operation, for example, repeatedly locking and unlocking the central lock, repeatedly moving the electric power seat forwards and backwards, driving the fuel pump to pump fuel to the engine intermittently, or driving the shift position sensor to output a same shift position signal, thereby obstructing and hindering from driving the vehicle and causing the thief to suffer from nerves and to give up stealing the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle communication system is disclosed, which includes a voice output device for voice output, a voice pick-up device for voice input, a packet assembler/disassembler unit adapted for assembling different vehicle supplementary system data into respective packet data or disassembling demodulated packet data into corresponding vehicle supplementary system data, a GSM module adapted for transmitting data-carrying voice signal to a remote side or receiving data-carrying voice signal from a remote side, a carrier wave modulator circuit adapted for modulating packet data into analog signal and adding the modulated analog signal to the voice signal from the voice pick-up device to form a data-carrying voice signal for transmitting to a remote side through the GSM module, and a demodulator circuit adapted for demodulating data-carrying voice signal and discriminating the signal into packet data and voice signal.

Abstract: A wireless vehicle burglar-alarm system formed of an on-board main unit and a wireless communication is disclosed. The on-board main unit obtains the CGI (Cell Global Identity) of a wireless communication base station from its broadcast and stores the CGI in a memory, and sends a re-location signal to the on-board main unit when the storage CGI is changed during an alert mode of the on-board main unit, causing the on-board main unit to start the at least one alarm. The on-board main unit sends an alarm signal to an alarm and drives the wireless communication apparatus to send an alarm message to the car owner wirelessly upon detection of an abnormal condition of the car through a sensor.

Abstract: A personal rescue system in which the car driver can double-click the emergency button of a personal remote control secretly to send an emergency signal to an on-board movable alert device when extorted by evil fellows, causing the controller of the movable alert device to turn the audio/video output device of the movable alert device into a background mode and then to drive the wireless communication device of the movable alert device to send a rescuing message to a remote side wirelessly under the background mode without infuriating the evil fellows.

Abstract: An On-Board wireless transaction system including a card reader/writer and a GSM modem, and adapted for use in a motor vehicle to directly order commodities wirelessly and complete the transaction on the real time. The card reader/writer reads value-added points from a fare card. An On-Board Unit deducts the transaction points from the value-added points and writes the balance points into the fare card upon an ordering demand, and wirelessly transmits the PIN of the fare card and the data of the transaction points with the GSM modem through a GSM wireless network to a shop-end computer for enabling the contracted shop to provide the commodity and to complete the transaction. The shop-end computer has the function of calculating the accumulated transaction points corresponding every PIN (personal identification number) of the fare card for providing a bonus accumulated points promotion.