Abstract: A vehicle is equipped with a slide door, a seat provided near an ingress-egress opening, and an ingress-action detector to detect a passenger's ingress action through the ingress-egress opening. The vehicle is further equipped with an illumination device which comprises lower illuminators which are configured to illuminate lower areas which are located below a beltline of the vehicle such that a passenger's upper body is not illuminated, vehicle-inside upper illuminators which are configured to illuminate an upper-specified area in the vehicle compartment which is located above the beltline, and an illumination controller to control the illuminators. When the ingress action is detected by the ingress-action detector, the illumination controller prohibits the illuminations of the illuminators and starts the illuminations of the illuminators.

Abstract: A temperature sensing and transmission apparatus and protocol for mobile phones is introduced in present invention. Phone users can transmit and receive temperature information via the phone network's data channel, in addition to the voice and video data that are commonly seen today. The added dimension of temperature information facilitates the phone conversation and also helps to determine if weather could be a factor in situation where environmental considerations are vital, such as search and rescue mission when mobile phone users call out for help.