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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:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sanyo Electric, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/500 ; G10L 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/500 ; G10L 2/100 ;
Abstract
A voice recognition method and apparatus in which an electrical signal corresponding to ambient noise is used to set a threshold value in accordance with the level of the ambient noise and a voice signal applied to a microphone is cut-out for processing if it exceeds the threshold value. The processing includes comparison of the voice signal cut-out with stored patterns of voice signals.