Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Takafumi Ohnishi

Kenji Furuta

Nobuo Terui

A voice recording/reproducing apparatus including a first recording device for recording voice data converted into a digital signal in a solid-state memory. A data read device reads out the voice data which is written in the solid-state memory by the first recording device. A D/A conversion device converts the voice data which is read out from the solid-state memory by the data read device into an analog voice signal. A second recording device records the analog voice signal output from the D/A conversion device on a tape-like recording medium. A reproduction device reproduces the analog voice signal which is recorded on the tape-like recording medium by the second recording device. An output switching device switches between the analog voice signal output by the D/A conversion device and the analog voice signal reproduced by the reproduction device, and outputs a selected one of the analog voice signals.

Information transfer, recording and reproducing device

A voice information transfer system transfers voice information in a form of an optical signal from a first voice information processing apparatus to a second voice information processing apparatus. The first apparatus includes a transfer enable signal reception unit for receiving a transfer enable signal for enabling transfer of the voice information from the second apparatus in a noncontact state, and a voice information transmission unit for transmitting the voice information converted into the optical signal to the second apparatus when the transfer enable signal reception unit receives the transfer enable signal from the second apparatus. The second apparatus includes a proximity detecting unit for detecting proximity of the first apparatus, a transfer enable signal transmission unit for transmitting the transfer enable signal to the first apparatus when the proximity detecting unit detects the proximity, and a voice information reception unit for receiving the voice information from the first apparatus, which is converted into the optical signal, in a noncontact state.

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Hachioji, Japan

Takafumi Ohnishi