Control apparatus for electronic equipment
US5566271A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 18, 1994 |
| Grant date | Oct 15, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 18, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N5/7826
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An instruction for operation mode control of a VTR 40 and information on the video recording reservation is voice inputted. The voice input is recognized by a voice recognition circuit 13 and is fed to a control circuit 15. The control circuit 15 controls the VTR 40 in response to the instruction or information of the voice input and causes an animation character generating circuit 16 to generate a video image of an animation character AC for displaying it on the screen of a CRT display 30. A message from the animation character AC is voice synthesized in a voice synthesizing circuit 19 and the synthesized voice is outputted from a speaker 20. The electronic equipment can be operated as if the user were talking with the animation character, so that a natural man-machine interface can be realized.
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