Portable computer with verbal annotations
US5481645A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 14, 1993 |
| Grant date | Jan 2, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 14, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/169
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A portable computer has a voice section and is capable of processing texts and verbal inserts originating from the voice section. The computer comprises a voice conversion unit, a hard disc unit for the storage in memory or the reproduction of texts and of verbal inserts and function keys (FN F9) to command the access to a voice management program (VOICE). An annotation command (ANNOTATE) permits the visual display on a screen and the leaving in the text of a linkage track for a verbal insert datum. The computer comprises a cover, which carries preset keys which are accessible from the outside for the handling of verbal inserts as in a cassette recorder. The computer links the inserts both in a commercial WP program texts and in texts of a resident program NOTE which is specialized for texts with call-ups for the inserts. It further provides a plurality of compression/decompression programs for compressing and decompressing the voice signals in accordance with differing quality/occupancy ratios of the memory.
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