Mobile video system

• US 7,218,360 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2006
• Issued: 05/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: VOXX International Corporation
• Original Assignee: VOXX International Corporation
• Inventors: Schedivy, George C.
• Primary Examiner(s): HSIA, SHERRIE Y
• Application Number:
  US11/351,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20060125295A1
• Time in Patent Office: 459 Days
• Field of Search: 348836-838, 348/739, 312/7.2, 248917-919, 248/922, 248/923, 296/35.3
• US Class Current: 348/838
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0205 for radio sets B60R11/0211 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0211 for record carriers apparatus, e.g. video recorders, tape players or CD players
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0017 Head-rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0059 using clips, clamps, straps or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0075 using a containment or docking space
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/64 Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers furniture aspects of television cabinets A47B81/06

Abstract

A video system comprises at least one media player, at least one display, wherein the at least one display is capable of receiving a first video signal and a first audio signal corresponding to a first program from the at least one media player, an assembly housing for supporting the at least one media player and the at least one display, and a wireless transmitter on the at least one display for wirelessly transmitting at least one of the first video signal and the first audio signal.

Claims

1. A video system comprising:

an assembly housing including a media player;

a display electrically connected to the media player and capable of being mounted to the assembly housing;

a bag for suspending the assembly housing between two seats in a vehicle, wherein the bag includes a plurality of openings for providing access to each control panel, each interface panel, and each media storage medium loading point of the media player without removing the assembly housing from the bag, wherein each of the plurality of openings are different from an opening through which the assembly housing is inserted into the bag.

2. The video system of claim 1, wherein the display is directly mounted to the assembly housing and is removable from the assembly housing to be positioned for viewing at a location remote from the assembly housing.

3. The video system of claim 1, wherein the media player is a digital video disk player.

4. The video system of claim 3, wherein the media player is a slot type or a drawer type digital video disk player.

5. The video system of claim 4, wherein one of the plurality of openings is substantially the same size as the slot or the drawer.

6. The video system of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of openings is sized and shaped to conform to the size and shape of a control panel of the media player.

7. The video system of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of openings is sized and shaped to conform to the size and shape of an interface panel of the media player.

8. The video system of claim 1, further comprising another bag for mounting the display to a seat in a vehicle when the display is remote from the assembly housing.

9. A video system comprising:

an assembly housing including a media player;

a display electrically connected to the media player and capable of being mounted to the assembly housing;

a bag for suspending the assembly housing between two seats in a vehicle, wherein the bag includes an opening for providing access to a media storage medium loading point of the media player without removing the assembly housing from the bag, wherein the opening is substantially the same size as the media storage medium loading point and is separated from an opening through which the assembly housing is inserted into the bag.

10. The video system of claim 9, wherein the media player is a digital video disk player.

11. The video system of claim 10, wherein the media storage medium loading point is a slot or a drawer.

12. The video system of claim 9, wherein the display is directly mounted to the assembly housing and is removable from the assembly housing to be positioned for viewing at a location remote from the assembly housing.

13. The video system of claim 12, wherein the bag includes another opening sized and shaped to conform to the size and shape of a control panel of the media player.

14. The video system of claim 12, wherein the bag includes another opening sized and shaped to conform to the size and shape of an interface panel of the media player.

15. The video system of claim 9, further comprising another bag for mounting the display to a seat in a vehicle when the display s remote from the assembly housing.