Harman International Industries announced it was recognized by Fast Company as one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Automotive, at #7 on the 2016 list.
Fast Company highlighted Individual Sound Zones (ISZ) as Harman’s standout innovation. It’s an in-cabin technology that lets drivers create their own audio zone, so the driver and passenger might listen to different music. It creates virtually simultaneous, in-car entertainment systems.
Under ISZ, digital signal processing is specifically tuned to the vehicle cabin and speakers to reduce the signals from other zones, regardless of whether they are music, voice or other noises. It adds headrest speakers to the car’s existing speakers along with thin and flat Electro Dynamic Planar Loudspeakers in the car ceiling.
Passengers can still hear other sounds in the cabin, but those sounds are controlled to limit distractions to each passenger’s own sound experience. ISZ can be integrated into any Harman in-car audio system via the amplifier and is available to all automakers.
“The automotive industry is in the midst of one of its most significant periods of transformation since the introduction of turn-by-turn navigation, and at the helm are visionaries and innovators from very diverse walks of life,” said Harman CEO Dinesh Paliwal.
You can see the other top 9 winners for automotive innovation here.
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