Infotainment Systems

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.

Part I : Introduction
Chapter 1 : Infotainment Systems on Fast Forward

Part II : Overviews
Chapter 2 : Adaptive In-Vehicle Information Systems and Their Usability Evaluation
Chapter 3 : Infotainment System Immunity Characterization Via Bulk Current Injection
Chapter 4 : Incorporating Hard Disks in Vehicles - Usages and Challenges
Chapter 5 : The Many Faces of Security
Chapter 6 : Multi-User Infotainment System
Chapter 7 : Reconfigurable Vehicle
Chapter 8 : Mobile Multi Media Open Computing Platform

Part III : Enabling Technologies
Section 1 : Software
Chapter 9 : Development of Telematics Software Platform Using WIPI for Service-Based Applications
Chapter 10 : Real Multi-Partitioning for Optimized Distributing and Allocating Software in Vehicle Networks
Chapter 11 : The AUTOSAR Standard - The Experience of Applying Simulink According to its Requirements
Chapter 12 : Wireless Multicasing for Remote Software Upload in Vehicles with Realistic Vehicle Movements
Chapter 13 : Loading Flashware from External Interface Such as CD-ROM or W-LAN and Programming ECUs by an On-Board SW-Component
Chapter 14 : Hardware Independent Software Framework for In-Vehicle Information Systems
Chapter 15 : Software Development for Driver Information Systems - Problems, Processes, Solutions
Chapter 16 : CPJazz - A Software Framework for Vehicle Systems Integration and Wireless Connectivity

Section 2 : Communications
Chapter 17 : Prevention of DoS Attacks on Inter-Vehicle Communications
Chapter 18 : Add-On Device Network for Passenger Cars
Chapter 19 : Decentralized Secure Protocol for Inter-Vehicle Communication Networks
Chapter 20 : Many Products, No Wires
Chapter 21 : Latency Analysis for Inter-Vehicle Communications
Chapter 22 : A Multi-Hop Mobile Networking Test-Bed for Telematics
Chapter 23 : Messaging and Telematics
Chapter 24 : No Hands with Bluetoogh
Chapter 25 : A Study of a Telematics Communication Method Involving Switching Signals to Voice and Data Lines
Chapter 26 : Development of Car Intranet Infrastructure
Chapter 27 : The Application of Middleware to In-Vehicle Applications
Chapter 28 : A Cast Study in Remote Connectivity to Automotive Communication Networks
Chapter 29 : Evolving Telematics Systems and Standards
Chapter 30 : A Distributed Java Architecture for Telematics Services
Chapter 31 : Design of Intelligent Body Networks

Section 3 : Voice Recognition, Speech Synthesis
Chapter 32 : Using SIL/PSIL to Estimate Speech Intelligibility in Vehicles
Chapter 33 : Study of Driver Distraction Due to Voice Interaction
Chapter 34 : The Mobile Productivity Center : Starting the Portable, Voice Enabled Future of Mobile Information and Productivity
Chapter 35 : The Influence of In-Vehicle Noise on Speech Recognition for Automotive Voice-Activated Control Systems
Chapter 36 : Improving In-Vehicle Voice Recognition Systems : Basis for Enhancing The Telematics Experience
Chapter 37 : Human Machine Interfaces Supported by Voice Recognition

Section 4 : Displays
Chapter 38 : An Efficient Visual Forward Collision Warning Display for Vehicle
Chapter 39 : Driver Information Utilizing Flat Panel Display
Chapter 40 : Alliance Principle 1.4 : Visual Downangle Criteria for Navigation and Telematics Displays in Vehicles
Chapter 41 : Caution and Warning in The Cockpit Dashboard
Chapter 42 : A Practical, C Programming Architecture for Developing Graphics for In-Vehicle Displays
Chapter 43 : Instrument Cluster Design Options Using Electroluminescent Lighting
Chapter 44 : A Mercury-Free CFL Backlight for Car-Navigation Display
Chapter 45 : OLED - Automotive Application Strenghts

Section 5 : Radio Systems
Chapter 46 : Automotive FM Diversity Systems, Part I : Propagation Channel Modeling and Multipath Review
Chapter 47 : Automotive FM Diversity Systems, Part II : Analog Systems
Chapter 48 : Automotive FM Diversity Systems, Part III : Digital Systems
Chapter 49 : Rapid Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements for Vehicle Applications
Chapter 50 : Digital Audio for FM Hybrid HD Radio
Chapter 51 : Hidden Antennas for The Foresight Vehicle
Chapter 52 : XM Satellite Radio Technology Fundamentals
Chapter 53 : S-C.A.R.E.S. Satellite Car Audio Reception Evaluation System
Chapter 54 : Peripheral SDAR Interoperability
Chapter 55 : A Noise Cancellation for FM Broadcast Receiver Using DSP Techniques
Chapter 56 : The RDS (Radio Data System) as a Transmission Way of Infomation for Automotive Vehicles
Chapter 57 : Cellular Radio Car Antenna Array for Smart Antenna Transmission and Diversity Reception
Chapter 58 : DSP Based Radio with IF Processing

Part IV : Driver Assistance Systems
Chapter 59 : Flexible Low Cost Lane Departure Warning System
Chapter 60 : Keeping The Driver in The Loop While Using Assistance Systems
Chapter 61 : Fuzzy Information Fusion Based on Genetic Algorithm for Vehicle Navigation System
Chapter 62 : Adaptive and Reconfigurable Data Fusion Architectures in Vehicle Positioning Navigation Systems
Chapter 63 : A Navigation Assistance Agent : Mobile LBS Web Service
Chapter 64 : Standardised Interface Between Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and Digital Maps for Safer, Smarter and Cleaner Transport
Chapter 65 : Object Detection and Tracking Using an Optical Time-of-Flight Range Camera Module for Vehicle Safety and Driver Assist Applications
Chapter 66 : Ultrasonic Sensor Modeling for Automatic Parallel Parking Systems in Passenger Cars
Chapter 67 : OptiVeo : A Vision-Based Platform for Driving Assistance
Chapter 68 : ITS Technology in Automotive - Who's on First?
Chapter 69 : A Navigation Assistance Agent : Online Access to LBS
Chapter 70 : Comparison of Visual-Manual and Voice Interaction with Contemporary Navigation System HMIs
Chapter 71 : Rearview Camera Based Parking Assist System with Voice Guidance

Part V : Driver/Vehicle Interfaces
Chapter 72 : Mind-on-The-Drive : Real-Time Functional Neuroimaging of Cognitive Brain Mechanisms Underlying Driver Performance and Distraction
Chapter 73 : Visual User Interfaces for Telematics
Chapter 74 : ACE Driving Simulator and Its Applications to Evaluate Driver Interfaces
Chapter 75 : Infrared Night Vision Systems and Driver Needs
Chapter 76 : New Cockpit Human-Machine-Interface Concept
Chapter 77 : Versatile Human Interface Utilizing The "Windows CE for Automotive" OS for Vehicle Computing Applications
Chapter 78 : Using Cluster Analysis for Deriving Menu Structures for Automotive Mobile Multimedia Applications
Chapter 79 : Evaluation Method for Verbal Interface While Driving from the Viewpoint of Safety
Chapter 80 : Amount of Information Acquired by Reading Display Informatin Repeatedly
Chapter 81 : The Driving Need for Human Factors in The Car of The Future
Chapter 82 : Human-Mechine-Interfaces of Car Computing Devices
Chapter 83 : Driver Eye Movement During a Route Navigation Information Search

Part VI : Future Trends
Chapter 84 : Security Needs for The Future Intelligent Vehicles
Chapter 85 : Reliable Dynamic Discovery Service-Based JINI for the Next Generation Vehicle Network
Chapter 86 : The Future of Digital Broadcast - More Than Just Crystal Clear Sound
Chapter 87 : A Virtualization Architecture for Next Generation In-Car Infotainment Applications
Chapter 88 : Operating System Requirements for Use in Next-Generation In-car Infotainment Systems
Chapter 89 : An Adaptive Data-Reduction Protocol for The Future In-Vehicle Networks
Chapter 90 : In-Vehicle Network Architecture for The Next-Generation Vehicles