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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2004
Jon A. Fairhurst, Camas, WA (US);
Henry Y. Fang, Cerritos, CA (US);
Bryan S. Hallberg, Vancouver, WA (US);
Mark G. Hanley, Skamania, WA (US);
Vishnu Kumar Shivaj Rao, Vancouver, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Sampsell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jon A. Fairhurst, Camas, WA (US);
Henry Y. Fang, Cerritos, CA (US);
Bryan S. Hallberg, Vancouver, WA (US);
Mark G. Hanley, Skamania, WA (US);
Vishnu Kumar Shivaj Rao, Vancouver, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Sampsell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention include a television system having an internal microphone for implementing a voice-messaging system. Using the microphone, the television system detects a message spoken by a user of the television system, and records the message to a memory. Some embodiments of the invention may also record metadata about the message. Embodiments of the invention alert an intended recipient of the message using the audio output or video output of the television system, and subsequently reproduce the message using the audio output of the television system. Other embodiments of the invention are described in the specification and the claims.