Patent ID: 8064616

Claim:
An infotainment system for a vehicle, the vehicle having a body defining an interior space, the infotainment system comprising: a playback device configured to: receive and process a plurality of sets of infotainment data, said infotainment data being organized in a hierarchy; and transmit a plurality of sound signals, each said sound signal corresponding to a respective one of the sets of infotainment data; a plurality of speakers communicatively coupled to said playback device, each said speaker disposed at a different respective location within the interior space, each of said speakers adapted to receive a respective one of the sound signals and convert the respective sound signal into a corresponding audible sound; a user interface communicatively coupled to said playback device, said user interface configured to enable a user to navigate between levels of said hierarchy of infotainment data by making selections, wherein each of the selections corresponds to a respective one of the sets of infotainment data; and wherein the playback device is configured to transmit the sound signals simultaneously, and the speakers are configured to convert the sound signals into audible sounds simultaneously.