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• US 20170148435A1
• Filed: 12/04/2013
• Published: 05/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LifeAssist Technologies Inc.
• Original Assignee: LifeAssist Technologies Inc.
• Inventors: ROTMAN, GARY
• Application Number:
  US14/097,201
• Publication Number:
  US 20170148435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 13/026 acting at a number of different times
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

A device which operates as an intelligent hands free voice activated Reminder device on its own or as part of any device, or when connected to any network in the home or work, which incorporates a reminder and control system that announces and/or displays personalized scheduled messages and/or voice reminders of any length, either pre-recorded in a personal voice or a voice of a pre-recorded person, or a computer generated voice based on reminders and/or tasks at specific time or date or a combination of time, day, date or year.

These reminders can be confirmed by the end users and therefore acknowledged by a second person, whether they are in the same premises of the end user, or anywhere else in the world. The user can ask the device to repeat a reminder for any time, day, date or year. For example, when is my doctor'"'"'s appointment? Or when is Justin'"'"'s birthday? What is my mortgage renewal? When is my cell phone contract finished? What are today'"'"'s reminders? What are all the reminders?

Claims

1. A device for delivering reminders and or messages to the user, by spoken words, digitized audio/video recordings or sounds &

images on various displays that are either part of the device and or remotely mounted and connected to the device.

2. The messages can be entered into or retrieved from the device, by the user simply speaking in a normal voice, using a list “

Command”

phrases, to signal the device what the user wants the device to do and when.

3. The messages can also be entered into or retrieved from the device, remotely by the user simply using a wireless microphone and or through an internet or web type interface.

4. The messages are audio-video recordings and they are not of fixed length, as the messages are digitized recordings, they are not limited to any specific language.

5. The device uses a stored library of Standard English commands phrases. These command phrases can be downloaded with a replacement audio command library in another language.

10. A device as claimed in claim 5 wherein said controller comprises a digitizer, said electronic memory, a sequencer and a digital processor, said digitizer receives the audio command phrases from said sensors and digitizes each audio string/phrase, said sequencer monitors said digitized signals and filters and enhances the signal and then if it determines a match with one or more of the stored reference command phrases, and then said digital processor retrieves from said command look up table said the appropriate sequence and data instructions of what to do and when, and then schedules for the playback of specific messages and or stored digitized audio-video messages to be played at the allotted time

6. Additional commands can be added to the library to support future additional functions.

7. A device with a microphone, a digitizer, an audio output amplifier, speaker, a basic network interface, an appropriate display, memory both non-volatile and dynamic, sufficient processing resources can be made to perform as the basic Reminder device, using the developed firmware routines.

8. The complete device functionality requires additional electronic parts, but if their equivalent functionality was available through the network interface, the full library of features and or functions could be implemented.

9. The device messages will be fully programmable by the user, a doctor, or any other person. By either locally speaking commands and messages into the device, and or remotely using a wireless audio microphone or video camera and or through an internet connection etc.