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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4811400 | Method for transforming symbolic data The specification discloses a method of transforming input symbolic data to output symbolic data for use in text-to-speech and other environments. A string of digital byte values representing the input symbolic data is stored in a first buffer memory loca... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4799261 | Low data rate speech encoding employing syllable duration patterns Speech is analyzed for phonological linguistic units (phonemes or allophones), along with their duration pattern and pitch pattern contour as a group or string of a syllable. The patterns are encoded as the best-match pattern in a set of prestored standar... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4785420 | Audio/telephone communication system for verbally handicapped In one exemplary embodiment, an audio/telephone communication system for verbally handicapped individuals is disclosed that comprises a programmed computer, and a matrix of touch-sensitive contacts carrying an overlay removably attached thereto and symbol... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4783810 | Device for generating the audio information of a set of characters A device for generating the audio information of a set of characters in which some characters are intoned or pronounced with a different voice character. The device comprises means for making a distinction between a capital letter and a small letter prese... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4783808 | Connected word recognition enrollment method A method for generating connected word templates begins with generating isolated word templates of selected words. The isolated word templates are used to extract a continuous word template from a segment of continuous speech containing the selectd words.... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4783811 | Method and apparatus for determining syllable boundaries In a text to speech system, digital text ASCII is examined for syllable boundaries to help accent generation for speech synthesis, and hyphenation in word processing. Digital allophone code characters in the form of a byte string are compared with prestor... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4779209 | Editing voice data In a system for editing documents having text and voice components, portions of a document are selected by cursor control to display text characters and associated voice symbols or tokens representing the voice component position and time-length.... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4769845 | Method of recognizing speech using a lip image A speech recognition method is implemented with an image pickup apparatus such as a TV camera which picks up a lip image during speech and with a small computer which has a small memory capacity and is connected to the TV camera. The computer receives and... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4757541 | Audio visual speech recognition A method and apparatus for indicating at least some of a sequence of spoken phonemes in which detected sounds are analyzed to determine a group of phonemes to which a phoneme belongs, the lipshape is optically detected and the respective signals correlate... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4754485 | Digital processor for use in a text to speech system In a text to speech converter, ASCII text is first transformed into phoneme parameters using for example Hunnicutt rules. Glottal waveform digital samples are generated at a rate greater than Nyquist, thereby allowing low-pass filtering and down-sampling ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4731847 | Electronic apparatus for simulating singing of song An electronic apparatus in which the operator inputs both the textual material and a sequence of pitches which upon synthesization simulates singing qualities. The operator inputs a textual material, typically through a keyboard arrangement, and also a se... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4707794 | Playback operation circuit in synthetic-speech calculator A synthetic-speech calculator includes a calculating circuit inclusive of a plurality of memory locations to allow successive or chain calculations by some calculations equations and calculating numerical data, and voice synthesizer for providing pronunci... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4700322 | General technique to add multi-lingual speech to videotex systems, at a low data rate Video display of stored text is accompanied by associated speech from a speech synthesizer using coded sounds and intonation. A central processor controls selection of text and speech. Speech is selectable in one of a plurality of prestored languages code... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4700377 | Selectively actuable electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of selectively actuable selection devices for causing the apparatus to perform a plurality of distinct operations. A first actuation of a selection device establishes a first condition to cause the apparatus to... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4695962 | Speaking apparatus having differing speech modes for word and phrase synthesis The present invention provides a conversion between a speech mode in which each word is clearly enunciated as if spoken in isolation and in which a phrase is spoken as a whole taking into account the influence of adjacent words. In the phrase mode, word e... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4694494 | Electronic memory devices for the blind The device basically comprises a Braille keyboard, a memory for storing text entered on the keyboard, a text editor and a speech synthesizer. Braille coded information entered by the user by means of the keyboard is stored in the memory. The stored text m... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4692941 | Real-time text-to-speech conversion system A high-quality, real-time text-to-speech synthesizer system handles an unlimited vocabulary with a minimum of hardware by using a microcomputer-software-compatible time domain methodology which requires a minimum of memory and computational power. The sys... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4689817 | Device for generating the audio information of a set of characters A device for generating the audio information of a set of characters in which some characters are intoned or pronounced with a different voice character. The device includes means for making a distinction between a capital letter and a small letter presen... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4685135 | Text-to-speech synthesis system A text-to-speech synthesis system receives digital code representative of characters from a local or remote source, and converts those character codes into speech. A set of allophone rules is contained in a memory and each incoming character set is matche... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4661916 | System for method for producing synthetic plural word messages A linguistic coding system and keyboard therefor for the use of people unable to use their own voices is described. The coding system and associated keyboard are based on the sentence rather than the word, phoneme or letter. The keyboard is coupled to a c... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4653100 | Audio response terminal for use with data processing systems An audio response terminal for a data processing system which provides an audio output for data that is displayed on a video display unit. The terminal has a control unit that is separate from the display controls, but receives inputs from the display buf... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4630222 | One chip integrated circuit for electronic apparatus with means for generating sound messages A calculator system with visual and speech outputs uses a single monolithic LSI chip which includes: a single ROM containing program instructions for both system and speech control, as well as data for synthesizing speech; a central controller which calcu... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4627001 | Editing voice data A dictation and editing system includes microphone and keyboard inputs to a programmed computer system. The author may control the selection and entry of microphone and keyboard inputs for storage and display. Keyboard entries are displayed as alpha-numer... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4618936 | Synthetic speech speed control in an electronic cash register An electronic cash register system includes an input keyboard and a high-speed computer which outputs through a buffer to a low-speed speech synthesizer. To avoid loss of data due to buffer overfill, a speech condition determination unit generates a contr... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4582441 | Text editing with voice prompting An electronic typewriter or other keyboard entry display device may have a voice or audio prompt option incorporated therein. The option provides for the operator to record a series of commands to position the print point as desired and then to code a ser... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4570250 | Optical sound-reproducing apparatus A system for generating audible information from a sound track printed on paper by conventional printing techniques, the sound track consisting of a multiplicity of closely-spaced parallel sound track segments which are curved in a manual scanning directi... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4542524 | Model and filter circuit for modeling an acoustic sound channel, uses of the model, and speech synthesizer applying the model Speech and music phonation formed by spectral formants is synthesized by a composite filter containing parallel filters in cascade. The composite filter design is generated by partial-function expansion of the approximate sound channel transfer function ... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4527274 | Voice synthesizer A voice synthesizer is disclosed for simulating a voice singing the lyrics of a song. The synthesizer comprises a phoneme speech synthesizer in which the phonemes are sounded at a pitch controlled by the keys or notes played on a musical keyboard. The tem... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4516260 | Electronic learning aid or game having synthesized speech An electronic talking learning aid is disclosed. The learning aid includes a speech synthesis circuit which, in the embodiment disclosed, includes a digital lattice filter circuit, a voiced/unvoiced speech excitation circuit, a speech parameter interpolat... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4489429 | Programmable calculator with verbal indications of stored programs In order to provide a visual indication of the location of error in stored programs and allow easy and prompt correction for the error, a programmable calculator is provided with both a display device (preferably, a cathode ray tube) capable of displaying... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4489433 | Speech information transmission method and system Vocoder signals in Telex format include a "word accent" code which indicates a sudden change in pitch (fundamental) frequency, perhaps by 50 Hz, usually caused by accenting a certain syllable in a word, whereby continuous speech may be more accurately seg... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4473904 | Speech information transmission method and system Speech information communicating method and apparatus for transmitting speech information through a transmission system having a low bit rate transmission capacity such as Telex to a receiver station for reproduction. The apparatus comprises at the side o... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4431866 | Electronic apparatus with vocal output An electronic apparatus capable of producing a voiced output representing various data input thereto and the results of operations on the input data includes a system for inhibiting the voiced output of data that is unnecessary to the operator. For exampl... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4429182 | Data-related apparatus with a speech-synthesizer output device An audible output device disclosed herein for use in electronic calculators or the like is able to distinguish between audible messages at the time of keying input information and at the time delivering output information reflecting results of operations,... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4406626 | Electronic teaching aid An electronic teaching aid which enables a student viewing a visual display containing text material being read or studied to designate any words or portion of said text for immediate audible vocalization or alternatively to designate any word of said tes... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4337375 | Manually controllable data reading apparatus for speech synthesizers The present invention uses a speech synthesizer apparatus to produce sounds in response to code input received from a code record pick-up manually moved over a selected strip on a code record sheet or panel. The code record sheet or panel has visual symbo... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4331836 | Speech synthesis integrated circuit device A system incorporating an integrated circuit device or chip which digitally synthesizes human speech using a linear predictive filter. The linear predictive filter comprises a single filter stage only which contains a single multiplier for selectively mul... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4278838 | Method of and device for synthesis of speech from printed text Upon analyzing grammatically and phonetically a printed text for accents, pauses, intonations and influences of adjacent voice elements in a sentence to be synthesized, a computer loads a plurality of registers including an address counter with instructio... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4185169 | Synthetic-speech calculators A synthetic speech calculator is provided which is capable of generating an audible sound signal which can be representative of keyed data, processed data, the contents of a memory or the contents of a counter. The sound signal can be suppressed under cer... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4185170 | Programmable synthetic-speech calculators or micro computers A programmable synthetic-speech calculator or micro computer operable in either a normal calculation mode or a program mode releases a sound in response to actuation of keys on a keyboard only when the calculator operates in the program mode.... | 01/22/1980 |
