The auto industry has been headed in this direction for a while. The biggest step was probably in 1996 when all (I believe) vehicles sold in the US were required to be compliant with the ODBII (On-Board Diagnostics II) standard interface. The result was that, to troubleshoot problems with the vehicle's engine and transmission, a person could pick up an OBDII code reader and pull the codes from a Ford, Chevy, Toyota, etc. Foreign or domestic -- it's the same standard.
Granted, it a standard for pulling codes rather than controlling functions within the vehicle, but it was certainly a step in the right direction.
The auto makers will get there once there's either a de-facto standard that's proven to work, or there's government regulation requiring it.
I was amazed at all the processing going on inside the DSP back when I tested, and later debugged/coded, modems for a living. When you mentioned echo cancellation, it was the first thing that popped into my head.
A logical extension of this for your application would be to try to get your hands on some source code from a "Soft" modem. The idea was to move the most intensive processing out of the DSP and onto the PC processor since they were, in theory, becoming powerful enough to handle all the operations in real-time. Actual performance of these types of modems is a completely separate story, but the echo cancellation code is out there somewhere. At thing point it should just be a matter of getting your hands on it.
I hate to say it, but as a result of the economic downturn I'm doing coding for a direct marketing company. As such I get to see, and often implement, all the nasty tracking stuff that follows so many users through their visits to different web sites.
On the bright side, a lot of what is tracked from our end tends to be geared towards interpretting responses from different advertising campaigns rather than pinning habits on particular users. Such information results in more effective advertising, and most likely brought about the dreaded "Wazzzzzzup?!" ads.
Tracking isn't always a bad thing, but it justifiably becomes a concern when the relative anonymity of those being tracked is lost.
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The auto industry has been headed in this direction for a while. The biggest step was probably in 1996 when all (I believe) vehicles sold in the US were required to be compliant with the ODBII (On-Board Diagnostics II) standard interface. The result was that, to troubleshoot problems with the vehicle's engine and transmission, a person could pick up an OBDII code reader and pull the codes from a Ford, Chevy, Toyota, etc. Foreign or domestic -- it's the same standard.
Granted, it a standard for pulling codes rather than controlling functions within the vehicle, but it was certainly a step in the right direction.
The auto makers will get there once there's either a de-facto standard that's proven to work, or there's government regulation requiring it.
Wonder which will happen first?
I was amazed at all the processing going on inside the DSP back when I tested, and later debugged/coded, modems for a living. When you mentioned echo cancellation, it was the first thing that popped into my head.
A logical extension of this for your application would be to try to get your hands on some source code from a "Soft" modem. The idea was to move the most intensive processing out of the DSP and onto the PC processor since they were, in theory, becoming powerful enough to handle all the operations in real-time. Actual performance of these types of modems is a completely separate story, but the echo cancellation code is out there somewhere. At thing point it should just be a matter of getting your hands on it.
I hate to say it, but as a result of the economic downturn I'm doing coding for a direct marketing company. As such I get to see, and often implement, all the nasty tracking stuff that follows so many users through their visits to different web sites.
On the bright side, a lot of what is tracked from our end tends to be geared towards interpretting responses from different advertising campaigns rather than pinning habits on particular users. Such information results in more effective advertising, and most likely brought about the dreaded "Wazzzzzzup?!" ads.
Tracking isn't always a bad thing, but it justifiably becomes a concern when the relative anonymity of those being tracked is lost.