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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2018
Promptu Systems Corporation, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Adam Jordan, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Scott Lynn Maddux, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tim Plowman, Berkeley, CA (US);
Victoria Stanbach, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Jody Williams, San Carlos, CA (US);
PROMPTU SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A system () for enabling a user to select media content in an entertainment environment, comprising a remote control device () having a set of user-activated keys and a speech activation circuit adapted to enable a speech signal; a speech engine () comprising a speech recognizer (); an application wrapper () configured to recognize substantive meaning in the speech signal; and a media content controller () configured to select media content. Every function that can be executed by activation of the user-activated keys can also be executed by the speech engine () in response to the recognized substantive meaning.