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Optical disk having speech recognition templates for information access
Assignee: BAREIS TECHNOLOGIES LLC
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Filing: 1996-09-20
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Granted: 1997-04-01
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Expires: 2016-09-20
Abstract
Abstract A storage medium comprises a storage area which stores digital picture and/or audio information includes a plurality of image and/or sound information and a digital contents information table including a plurality of digital contents information which are related to the contents of said plurality of image and/or sound information. The digital contents information table of the storage area being divided into a plurality of sections providing speech recognition templates and other information by which the disk may be accessed, contents of the disk may be accessed, and information capable of outputting or displaying selected information, the selected disk, or contents thereof.
Inventors
- 👤 Monica M. Bareis
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-31 18:55
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B19/00; G11B19/02; G11B19/12; G10; G10L; G10L15/00; G10L15/26; G11B20/00; G11B20/10; G11B20/12; G11B20/1217; G11B20/1254; G11B27/00; G11B27/10; G11B27/102; G11B27/105; G11B27/19; G11B27/28; G11B27/30; G11B27/3027; G11B27/309; G11B27/32; G11B27/327; G11B27/329; G11B7/00; G11B7/24; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B2220/21; G11B2220/213; G11B2220/25; G11B2220/2537; G11B2220/2545; G11B2220/255; G11B2220/90; G11B2220/91; G11B2220/913; G11B27/107; G11B27/328; G11B7/002; G11B7/0037
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
103 words
An information storage medium comprising: an optical disk; a storage area including a plurality of sections on said optical disk; ones of said plurality of said sections storing an information table; other ones of said plurality of said sections storing prestored data; and said information table including speech recognition templates and pointers identifying data locations within said sections storing prestored data, such that said pointers are accessed by user spoken identifiers associated with the data and recognized by said speech recognition templates for retrieving data stored on said sections storing prestored data for output to a user based upon said user spoken identifiers.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
103 words
An information storage medium comprising: an optical disk; a storage area including a plurality of sections on said optical disk; ones of said plurality of said sections storing an information table; other ones of said plurality of said sections storing prestored data; and said information table including speech recognition templates and pointers identifying data locations within said sections storing prestored data, such that said pointers are accessed by user spoken identifiers associated with the data and recognized by said speech recognition templates for retrieving data stored on said sections storing prestored data for output to a user based upon said user spoken identifiers.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
The storage medium of claim 1 wherein said data locations store musical songs and said pointers are accessed by spoken song titles.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
14 words
The storage medium of claim 2 wherein said speech recognition templates represent song titles.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
The storage medium of claim 2 wherein said speech recognition templates represent a title for each of said storage areas, and said pointers access a storage area.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
21 words
The storage medium of claim 1 wherein said data locations store video information and said pointers are accessed by spoken titles.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
31 words
The storage medium of claim 1 wherein said information table further includes stored output messages corresponding to data stored in said speech recognition templates and which are accessed by said pointers.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
102 words
An information storage medium comprising: an optical disk; a plurality of storage areas, each storage area including a plurality of sections on said optical disk; ones of said plurality of said sections storing an information table; other ones of said plurality of said sections storing prestored data; and said information table including speech recognition templates and pointers identifying storage areas, such that said pointers are accessed by user spoken identifiers associated with the data and recognized by said speech recognition templates for retrieving data stored on said sections storing prestored data for output to a user based upon said user spoken identifiers.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
102 words
An information storage medium comprising: an optical disk; a plurality of storage areas, each storage area including a plurality of sections on said optical disk; ones of said plurality of said sections storing an information table; other ones of said plurality of said sections storing prestored data; and said information table including speech recognition templates and pointers identifying storage areas, such that said pointers are accessed by user spoken identifiers associated with the data and recognized by said speech recognition templates for retrieving data stored on said sections storing prestored data for output to a user based upon said user spoken identifiers.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
22 words
The storage medium of claim 7 wherein said data locations store musical songs and said pointers are accessed by spoken song titles.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
14 words
The storage medium of claim 8 wherein said speech recognition templates represent song titles.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
27 words
The storage medium of claim 8 wherein said speech recognition templates represent a title for each of said storage areas, and said pointers access a storage area.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
21 words
The storage medium of claim 7 wherein said data locations store video information and said pointers are accessed by spoken titles.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
31 words
The storage medium of claim 7 wherein said information table further includes stored output messages corresponding to data stored in said speech recognition templates and which are accessed by said pointers.
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