US Patent 7312724 In-vehicle application selecting system and in-vehicle application selecting device

Providing a technique in which a picked-up image is given to an appropriate in-vehicle device or application and this device or application is then operated so that a variety of in-vehicle applications can be most suitably operated. According to an output from a sensor for measuring a state of a vehicle, quality of a picked-up image, a state of an occupant or the like is estimated, and based on the estimation results, an in-vehicle application to be executed is selected and executed.