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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masatomo Ohuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 67 ; 379114 ; 379144 ;
Abstract
An audio message service apparatus comprises a first memory to store an encoded audio message, a second memory to store management data regarding the encoded audio message stored in the first memory and an encoder for again encoding the encoded audio message stored in the first memory by another different encoding method on the basis of the management data stored in the second memory and for storing the audio message which was again encoded into the first memory. The encoder encodes the encoded audio message by an encoding method of a higher compression ratio.