The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2000
Hitomi Baba, Kawasaki, JP;
Takahiro Fukushima, Inagi, JP;
Makiko Nakao, Inagi, JP;
Momoko Kanada, Inagi, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention has an architecture capable of eliminating a necessity for previously designating in a document, when reading aloud the document, attributes for reading aloud. Focusing on utilizing the document with attributes, a document reading system analyzes contents of the attributes and reads aloud texts in the document with a voice synthesizing module. The attributes are set irrespective of reading aloud conditions. A basic reading condition setting module sets the reading aloud conditions for the entire document. An individual reading condition setting module sets the reading aloud condition for every attribute. A selective reading module, when reading aloud the document, in principle, reads aloud the text with reference to the basic reading aloud condition set by the basic reading condition setting module, and selectively reads aloud the text having the individual reading aloud condition given a higher priority than the basic reading aloud condition.