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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2004
Osamu Yamamoto, Sendai, JP;
Hiroyuki Igarashi, Sendai, JP;
Shigeki Yokoi, Yokohama, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A portable telephone apparatusaccording to the present invention comprises a call waiting section and a telephone number acquisition section that can acquire telephone numbers of telephone apparatuses on the other end of lines. A telephone directory information registration sectionregisters telephone numbers associated with information on names. A caller confirmation section searches a telephone number of the telephone directory information registration sectionbased on the telephone number acquired by the telephone number acquisition section and confirms the caller. A character string speech conversion section converts the character information on the name of the confirmed caller to speech information. A caller information notification section notifies the user of the speech information from the character string speech conversion section when an incoming call arrives during a call with speech at a volume level which does not disturb the call.