Johnson Controls Technology Company

Johnson Controls Gmbh

Steven Gene Schultz

Douglas C Campbell

Robert Coon

Mark Lewis Zeinstra

Eric Sean Deuel

David Paul Thimm

Eric Bernard Michalak

Jeffrey Neil Golden

Brian L Douthitt

James Bradley Price

Ted W Ringold

Joseph F Prosniewski

Alan G Greene

Joon Kyu Lee

Elliot Hsu

Timothy J Syfert

Theodore J Stokes

Stephen Todd Sanders

Joon K Lee

Systems and/or methods are provided that facilitate surveying media sources in a media entertainment system. An index component can provide an index of a set of available media sources in the media entertainment system. In addition, a selection component can displays the set of available media sources and receive selection requests for a subset of the available media sources. Further, a preview component can display a sample of media generated by the selected subset of media sources prior to active engagement thereof. Moreover, one or more aspects can be implemented in a vehicle entertainment system.

Source content preview in a media system

A seatback entertainment display system for a vehicle is provided having a support member extending from a seatback frame, and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the support member, and a display device coupled to the adjustment mechanism. The support member may be a cantilever type beam or frame extending upwardly from the seatback at a position behind and adjacent to a headrest. The support member may also be a pair of rods arranged to fixedly receive the display device and movably receive the headrest. The adjustment device may include any one or more of a forward-rearward tilting mechanism, a side to side pivoting mechanism and an up-down translation mechanism. The seatback entertainment display system is adaptable to optimize a viewing angle for a rear seat occupant of the vehicle, throughout a normal adjustment range of the seat.

Seatback entertainment display system

A method is provided for creating a phonebook for a hands-free telephone system in a vehicle using phonebook entries retrieved from a remote phonebook of a mobile phone over a wireless communication link between a control module of the hands-free telephone system and the mobile phone. The method includes receiving a remote phonebook from the mobile phone, the remote phonebook including a plurality of entries, each entry including text data and numeric data, identifying the text data in each entry, generating an acoustic baseform for each entry based on the text data for each entry, storing the acoustic baseform for each entry in a baseform list, and storing the plurality of entries in a mobile phonebook associated with the baseform list.

Hands-free system and method for retrieving and processing phonebook information from a wireless phone in a vehicle

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Steven Gene Schultz