Data input method and data input device for inputting text and voice data

• US 7,406,420 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2003
• Issued: 07/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Hosono, Masahiko, Daimoto, Hiroshi, Ushida, Hirohide, Nakajima, Hiroshi, Ishikawa, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): MCFADDEN, SUSAN IRIS
• Application Number:
  US10/622,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20040054819A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,839 Days
• Field of Search: 704/270, 704/270.1
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context

Abstract

A data input device has an input part for inputting data and an output part for outputting a message for prompting a data input operation. The data input device has a text data input part for inputting text data, a voice data input part for inputting voice data, an input item storage part for storing an item to be inputted, and an input control part for selecting one of the text data input part and the voice data input part in accordance with the characteristics of the item to be inputted which is stored in the input item storage part.

Claims

1. A data input device having input means for inputting data and output means for outputting a message for prompting a data input operation, comprising:

text data input means for inputting text data;

voice data input means for inputting voice data;

input item storage means for storing an item to be inputted, which is associated with an output message prompt and characteristics of the item, wherein the characteristics of the item include at least one of an amount of an input characters and a type of the data input means applied for inputting the data; and

input control means for selecting one of the text data input means and the voice data input means in accordance with the characteristics of the item to be inputted; and

output means for outputting the message prompt so as to prompt a user to input data using the one of the text data input means and the voice data input means, which is selected by the input control means.

2. The data input device according to claim 1, wherein the input control means selects data input means in accordance with an amount or type of data of the item to be inputted which is stored in the input item storage means.

3. The data input device according to claim 1, further comprising:

noise measurement means for measuring noise generated around the data input device, wherein

when voice data input means is selected and the noise measured by the noise measurement means is higher than a predetermined value, the input control means changes input means from the voice data input means to the text data input means.