Optical disk having speech recognition templates for information access

• US 5,617,407 A
• Filed: 09/20/1996
• Issued: 04/01/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bareis Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Monica M. Bareis
• Inventors: Bareis, Monica M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Edun, Muhammad N.
• Application Number:
  US08/717,185
• Time in Patent Office: 193 Days
• Field of Search: 369/50, 369/47, 369/48, 369/49, 369/53, 369/54, 369/58, 369/59, 369/60, 369/124, 369/32, 369/275.3, 360/48, 360/53, 379/89, 379/197, 379/198
• US Class Current: 369/275.3
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1254 for mixed data, i.e. continuous and discontinuous data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/213 Read-only discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/255 CD-I, i.e. CD-interactive
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/913 Digital audio tape [DAT] format
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/107 of operating tapes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/309 Table of contents
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/328 on a tape [TTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0037 with discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/24 Record carriers characterised by shape, structure or physical properties, or by the selection of the material characterised by the arrangement of information on the carrier G11B7/007

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.

Claims

1. 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.

2. The storage medium of claim 1 wherein said data locations store musical songs and said pointers are accessed by spoken song titles.

3. The storage medium of claim 2 wherein said speech recognition templates represent song titles.

4. 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.

5. The storage medium of claim 1 wherein said data locations store video information and said pointers are accessed by spoken titles.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. The storage medium of claim 7 wherein said data locations store musical songs and said pointers are accessed by spoken song titles.

9. The storage medium of claim 8 wherein said speech recognition templates represent song titles.

10. 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.

11. The storage medium of claim 7 wherein said data locations store video information and said pointers are accessed by spoken titles.

12. 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.