Visteon Global Technolgoies, Inc.

Ford Motor Company Limited

Visteon Corporation

Other

Visteon Global Tech., Inc

J William Whikehart

John Elliott Whitecar

Nicholas Lawrence Difiore

James Alfred Wargnier

Darby Edward Hadley

Christopher John Hagan

Todd Allen Toporski

Bradley Anderson Ballard

Sunil Shukla

Mark W Corless

Theodore Charles Wingrove

Shadi Mere

Terry Robert Altmayer

John William Wagner

Myron Lemecha

Dinu Petre Madau

Earl R Geddes

Yao H Kuo

Upton Beall Bowden

Richard David Zerod

Philip Mark Bator

Jack Harold King

Frank Michael Hirschenberger

Robert Kelly Cadena

Mohammad-Reza Sheikh-Movahhed

Christopher Thomas Thibodeau

Michael Chrysochoos

David P Stewart

Shaun David Kalinowski

Suresh Ghelani

Jonathan Weisberg

Yung Da Wang

Dave Lavacek

Vincent Wang

Debra A Bezzina

John Elliot Whitecar

Systems and methods for integrating audio content presented via an audio playback device with additional digital content are provided herein. The system includes a content retriever configured to retrieve the audio content from a terrestrial radio station, and retrieve the additional digital content from an Internet streaming channel, the terrestrial radio station and the Internet streaming channel being associated with an audio program; and being configured to output the additional digital content. Further included herein is a method for delaying a delivery of additional audio content.

Integrating audio content with additional digital content

A wireless charging steering wheel device is described herein. The wireless charging steering wheel device is coupled to a power source via a clockspring included in the steering wheel. Also disclosed herein is an integrated wireless charging/heating system. Also disclosed herein are multiple coil placements for implementing the wireless charging steering wheel device.

Wireless charging steering wheel

Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an improved sample-rate converter that overcomes the limitations of conventional sample-rate converters. The improved system comprises a simple asynchronous sample-rate converter and synchronous sample-rate converter. The output of the simple asynchronous sample-rate converter is connected to the input of the synchronous sample-rate converter. In an alternative embodiment, the output of the synchronous sample-rate converter is connected to the input of the simple asynchronous sample-rate converter.

Efficient two-stage asynchronous sample-rate converter

An adaptive prompt system includes a plurality of audio files, each of the audio files representing a particular genre and having audible characteristics associated with the particular genre, a user preference data representing a preferred genre, a processor for analyzing the user preference data and selecting one of the audio files based upon the user preference data, and a communication device in signal communication with the processor to receive the one of the audio files selected and transmitting the one of the audio files selected as an audio output.

Automatic genre-based voice prompts

A system which jointly reduces damage from an impending collision between multiple vehicles includes sensing devices, at least one processor, at least one memory, output devices, and communication devices. The sensing devices sense conditions near, around, in, or involving multiple vehicles. The at least one memory is in electronic communication with the at least one processor, and includes programming code for execution by the at least one processor. The programming code is configured to analyze the sensed conditions sensed by the sensing devices to jointly determine and output instructions to multiple vehicles for jointly reducing damage from an impending collision between them. The output devices output or implement the jointly determined output instructions to multiple vehicles. The communication devices communicate the sensed conditions from the sensing devices to the at least one processor, and communicate the jointly determined output instructions from the at least one processor to the output devices.

Vehicle collision avoidance and mitigation system

A method and system for providing selected content displays to users of mobile electronic devices and more specifically to a method and system for broadcasters to provide a marketing portal presented in the form of displayed customized broadcaster content.

System and method for affinity marketing to mobile devices

A receiver including a plurality of antennas for receiving at least one radio signal, an analog processing path in signal communication with at least one of the antennas, a digital processing path in signal communication with at least one of the antennas, and a processor for controlling a processing of the at least one radio signal, wherein the at least one radio signal is processed by at least one of the analog processing path and the digital processing path.

HD radio diversity receiver with shared processing paths

A signal processing system and methods for controlling a bandwidth of the signal processing system are disclosed. One method includes the steps of detecting a presence of an adjacent signal on at one adjacent channel relative to a desired channel, detecting a modulation characteristic of the desired channel, measuring a signal strength on the at least one adjacent channel, measuring a signal strength on the desired channel, and adjusting a bandwidth filter applied to the desired channel in response to the measurements and detection steps.

Automatic bandwidth control with high-deviation detection

A system for single path processing identical, substantially identical, close or interfering frequencies with a single analog-to-digital converter. The system receives a plurality of input signals at various frequencies and front end circuits filter out first and second frequencies. A mixer and a front end oscillator are in communication with one of the front end circuits for mixing a front end frequency with one of the first and second frequencies prior to the analog-to-digital converter. A summer combines the output of the mixer with the output of one of the front end circuits. An analog-to-digital converter is connected to the summer for converting the analog input signal to a digital output signal. The first and second frequencies may be separately processed after they have been combined, even if they were identical frequencies.

Direct conversion pre-ADC frequency mixer

A feedback calibration system and a method for controlling an electronic signal are disclosed. The feedback calibration system includes an input controller adapted to modify an input signal in response to a control signal and generate a modified input signal, a signal processing block including a signal analyzer, wherein the signal processing block is adapted to process the modified input signal to generate an output signal and the signal analyzer is adapted to detect an undesirable condition of the output signal and transmit a detection signal corresponding to the undesirable condition, a transfer function estimator adapted to model and transmit a transfer function estimate of the signal processing block in real-time in response to the detection signal, and a programmable device adapted to transmit the control signal to the input controller for modifying the input signal, wherein the control signal is based upon the transfer function estimate.

Frame-based level feedback calibration system for sample-based predictive clipping

A method for recording a clean broadcast free of background, such as fade-ins and fade-outs on a receiver includes providing program data associated with an upcoming broadcast, the broadcast being selected by a broadcaster, on the receiver to describe the upcoming broadcast to a user. The receiver records the upcoming broadcast to an internal memory of the receiver in response to either the broadcast being automatically selected based on the user's preferences or the user manually selecting the upcoming broadcast. Start and stop commands, independent of any manual input, are received by the receiver to begin and end the recording of the clean broadcast.

System for downloading audio content

A method for determining the presence of multiple carrier frequency components in an electrical signal by calculating a value for at least one characteristic of the set of peaks in a defined portion of the frequency spectrum, such as the number of peaks within a defined portion of the frequency spectrum or the average spacing between pairs of peaks, and defining a range of values of the characteristic that would indicate the presence of multiple carrier components, and comparing this calculated characteristic value against the values in the defined range of values.

Method to determine the presence of multi-carrier signals

Program data is provided in association with a main audio program to a receiver of a duplicative radio broadcasting system wherein a duplicative broadcast (such as a hybrid IBOC broadcast) includes a primary channel and a backup channel in a predetermined frequency allocation. Both the primary channel and the backup channel transmit the main audio program, and the primary channel transmits program data not included in the backup channel. The receiver includes an audio output for reproducing the main audio program and a display for displaying the program data. The method includes recurrently compiling a program event list of the program data corresponding to a current program event and a plurality of upcoming program events. The program event list is recurrently transmitted within the primary channel. The receiver recurrently recovers the program event list and stores the program data in a memory. The program data of the current program event is displayed. The audio output is blended from the primary channel to the backup channel in response to detection of an impaired primary channel. The display is updated to show program data of one of the upcoming program events from the memory during impairment of said program data in said primary channel.

Program data display in duplicative digital audio broadcasting system

A system () and method () for digitizing a complete band of RF channels to allow simultaneous processing of more than one channel. Multiple tunable bandpass filters () are used for the particular channels to be processed. The filter outputs are combined () to form one signal for digitization (). In another embodiment, an undesired signal is rejected () to provide more available power for a reception of a desired signal.

Method and system for multi-channel RF digitization with analog selectivity

A timing signal is regenerated from an encoded digital signal having a data clock frequency Rin a receiver using a predetermined sample rate F, wherein the data clock period 1/Ris not an integer multiple of the predetermined sample period 1/F. The method comprises generating an input pulse signal in response to the encoded digital signal. Each of the input pulse signals is accumulated in a predetermined delay element which stores an accumulated value, wherein the predetermined delay element is in a delay loop including N delay elements each having a respective accumulated value. The accumulated values are circulated within the delay loop by shifting at each of the sample periods according to a predetermined shift sequence, the predetermined shift sequence including a plurality of single shifts and at least one other shift size to provide a number of shifts N+&#x3b4; during a cycle of N sample periods. A synchronization pulse is generated in response to the accumulated values and a predetermined threshold. A counter is operated to output the timing signal in response to the predetermined sample rate F, the counter having a variable counter period according to a predetermined counter sequence. The variable counter period has an average over time corresponding to the data clock period 1/R. The counter is reset in response to the synchronization pulse (if synchronization becomes necessary).

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Novi, MI, United States of America

J William Whikehart