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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2002
Applicants:
Keiichi Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Kosaka, Yamagata, JP;
Inventors:
Keiichi Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Kosaka, Yamagata, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Modality information indicating various functions of a multimodal document reception processing apparatus is transmitted to a multimodal document transmission apparatus, and a multimodal document, which is generated by the multimodal document transmission apparatus based on the modality information is received. A speech synthesis unit synthesizes speech of text data to be output as speech in the multimodal document, and a speech output unit outputs the synthesized output speech. A GUT display unit displays text data to be displayed in the multimodal document.