Two way automatic universal transcription telephone

• US 9,406,296 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2013
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: C21 Patents LLC
• Original Assignee: C21 Patents LLC
• Inventors: Charugundla, Kent S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bezuayehu, Solomon
• Application Number:
  US13/866,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20140314220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• Field of Search: 379 8813- 8815, 4554141-4144
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0231 Cordless keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2475 for a hearing impaired user
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/642 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42391 where the subscribers are hearing-impaired persons, e.g. telephone devices for the deaf
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1295 Details of dual tone multiple frequency signalling

Abstract

A two-way automatic transcription telephone, which can operate over analog and/or digital networks and, during a telephone call, is able to automatically transcribe in real time incoming voice signals and/or outgoing voice signals of the telephone into associated text that can be displayed on a display of the telephone. The incoming and outgoing voice signals are transcribed based on settings received by the telephone via its input keyboard or touch screen input.

Claims

1. A Transcription Telephone comprising:

at least one central processing unit comprising a first central processing unit for processing incoming voice signals and a second central processing unit for processing outgoing voice signals during an established telephone call; and

a voice circuit

where the first central processing unit controls a first transcriber for transcribing incoming voice signals into associated text displayed on a first touch screen display and the second processing unit controls a second transcriber for transcribing outgoing voice signals into associated text displayed on a second touch screen display.

2. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the transcription of voice signals occurs during an established telephone call involving the transcription telephone.

3. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the voice circuit comprises a voice port providing access to incoming and outgoing voice signals of an established telephone call.

4. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the voice circuit separately routes incoming and outgoing voice signals to electrically isolate them from each other.

5. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the central processing unit causes the voice circuit to transmit a pre-stored message to a telephone of a calling party upon establishment of a telephone call between the transcription telephone and the telephone of the calling party.

6. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the central processing unit causes the voice circuit to transmit a pre-stored message to a telephone of a called party upon establishment of a telephone call between the transcription telephone and the telephone of the called party.

7. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the voice circuit detects DTMF signals of a telephone number dialed on the transcription telephone where such telephone number is stored and is associated with a stored transcript of an ensuing established telephone call.

8. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 further comprising a keyboard interface coupled to the central processing unit allowing a corded keyboard to be connected to the transcription telephone.

9. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 further comprising a keyboard interface coupled to the central processing unit allowing a cordless keyboard to be wirelessly connected to the transcription telephone.

10. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the transcriber comprises one or more algorithms stored in memory and whose operation is controlled by the central processing unit where instructions associated with the one or more algorithms are executed by the central processing unit to transcribe incoming voice signals and/or outgoing voice signals into associated text.

11. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the one or more received parameters determine which type of voice signals are to be transcribed into text.

12. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where the voice circuit comprises an interface circuit for each type of communication network to which the transcription telephone can be connected and where each such interface is capable of converting outgoing voice signals to a format compliant with a proper destination communication network and each such interface is capable of detecting incoming voice signals for processing by the central processing unit and the transcriber.

13. The Transcription Telephone of claim 1 where received voice signals of a user can be independently transcribed based on various commands received by the at least one central processing unit.

14. The Transcription Telephone of claim 13 where a transcript resulting from an independent transcription is stored locally within the Transcription Tel or remotely in a cloud.