Voice guide system including portable terminal units and control center having write processor

• US 5,797,125 A
• Filed: 03/06/1995
• Issued: 08/18/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Videotron Corp. (Quebecor Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Videotron Corp. (Quebecor Incorporated)
• Inventors: Hirohama, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): MacDonald, Allen R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): EDOUARD, PATRICK NESTOR
• Application Number:
  US08/399,340
• Time in Patent Office: 1,261 Days
• Field of Search: 395/2.86, 395/2.82, 395/2.83, 395/2.84, 395/2.85, 395/2.87, 395/2.59, 395/2.64, 395/2.1, 381/51, 381/39, 381/50, 455/18, 455/49.1, 455/50.1, 340/825.25, 370/85.1, 434/319
• US Class Current: 704/277
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 11/00 Arrangements, systems or apparatus for checking, e.g. the occurrence of a condition, not provided for elsewhere
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/04 with audible presentation of the material to be studied sound recording or reproducing G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2025/005 Message recorded in a memory device
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 25/00 Audible advertising sound recording or reproducing per se G11B; public address systems H04R27/00

Abstract

Identification code transmitting units are respectively installed in different guide areas and respectively transmit different identification codes. Each of plural portable terminal units includes a memory for storing plural pieces of guide information respectively associated with the different guide areas in any one of different languages, a receiver for receiving the identification code transmitted by any one of the transmitting units, a selector for selecting one of the plural pieces of guide information according to the received identification code, and a voice generator for generating a voice corresponding to the selected piece of guide information. A control center also includes a memory for storing the plural pieces of guide information in each of the different languages, and a write processing device for selecting one of the languages according to a user command and then writing the plural pieces of guide information of the selected language from the memory thereof into the memory of any one of the terminal units.

Claims

1. A voice guide system comprising:

a plurality of identification code transmitting units respectively installed in a plurality of different guide areas and respectively transmitting a plurality of different identification codes;

a plurality of portable terminal units each comprising (a) a first storage means for storing plural pieces of guide information respectively associated with said plurality of different guide areas in any one of plural different languages, (b) a receiving means for receiving an identification code transmitted by any one of said plurality of transmitting units, (c) a selecting means for selecting one of said plural pieces of guide information stored in said storage means according to the identification code received by said receiving means, and (d) voice generating means for generating a voice corresponding to said one of said plural pieces of guide information selected by said selecting means; and

a control center comprising (a) a second storage means for storing said plural pieces of guide information in each of said plural different languages, and (b) a write processing means for selecting one of said plural different languages according to a user command and writing said plural pieces of guide information of the selected one of said plural different languages from said second storage means into said first storage means of any one of said plurality of terminal units.

2. A voice guide system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control center further comprises a compression means for compressing the pieces of guide information written into said first memory of said any one of said plurality of terminal units.