Patents Examined by Richemond Dorr
  • Distributed voice capture and recognition system
    Patent number: 6178403
    Abstract: A hand-held data acquisition device includes a display presenting at least one of an address book, a date book, a memo pad, a to-do list, a contact manager, an expense tracker, an e-mail client, and a project manager, at least one of which contains multiple data items. An input device is operatively connected to the device is suitable to receive voice data from the user. The data acquisition device stores the voice data and associates the voice data with at least one of the data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Detlef