Infotainment Systems PT-135

The field of in-vehicle infotainment systems covers a wide variety of digital applications, including internal connectivity, entertainment, external communications, navigation services, and radio. This book contains 87 papers covering the past eight years (2000-2007) of engineering developments related to infotainment systems.

Subjects covered include:

Enabling technologies

Software

Communications

Voice recognition

Speech synthesis

Displays

Radio systems

Driver assistance systems

Navigation

Lane departure warning

Parallel parking

Driver/Vehicle interfaces

The book also includes editor Ronald K. Jurgen's introduction ("Infotainment Systems on Fast Forward") and a concluding section on "future trends" which features papers on future security needs, virtualization architectures, operating system requirements, network architectures, and data-reduction protocols.