Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Martindale

Geoffrey Martindale has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Talking book method and system
    Patent number: 6694123
    Abstract: A talking book and a method of authoring a talking book is presented where the talking book includes a synthesizer, an audio system, a memory, a display, and switches for selecting pages and/or chapters of the talking book. The talking book is authored by a script that lists speech files, the sampling rate, and the chapter and page boundaries. Configuration tables and segment tables are generated from the script and these tables are assembled with a playback program to combined binary data stored in the talking book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Geoffrey Martindale, Suman Narayan
  • Talking book method and system
    Publication number: 20020042040
    Abstract: A talking book and a method of authoring a talking book is presented where the talking book includes a synthesizer, an audio system, a memory, a display, and switches for selecting pages and/or chapters of the talking book. The talking book is authored by a script that lists speech files, the sampling rate, and the chapter and page boundaries. Configuration tables and segment tables are generated from the script and these tables are assembled with a playback program to combined binary data stored in the talking book.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Inventors: Geoffrey Martindale, Suman Narayan