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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:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip R. Thrift, Dallas, TX (US);
Charles T. Hemphill, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/500 ; H04N 5/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/500 ; H04N 5/44 ;
Abstract
A hand-held wireless voice-activated device (,) for controlling a host system (,), such as a computer connected to the World Wide Web. The device (,) has a display (,), a microphone (,), and a wireless transmitter (,) and receiver (,). It may also have a processor (,) and memory (,) for performing voice recognition. A device (,) can be specifically designed for Web browsing, by having a processor (,) and memory (,) that perform both voice recognition and interpretation of results of the voice recognition.