Cell phone having an information-converting function

• US 7,451,084 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2004
• Issued: 11/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Funakura, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth; David R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sked; Matthew J.
• Application Number:
  US10/899,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20050027525A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,568 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

A voice discriminating tag for making a reception voice and a transmission voice distinguishable is added to the voice inputted into a cell phone. Further, a volume discriminating tag is added based on a detection result of a volume detector. A CPU converts the voice into character data and image data on the basis of the voice discriminating tag and the volume discriminating tag, referring to various files stored in file devices. The converted data is outputted to a display panel on which the character data corresponding to the transmission voice and the character data corresponding to the reception voice are shown in time series so as to have different colors. The character data is shown in a literal type corresponding to a volume level.

Claims

1. A cell phone in which transmission voice information is inputted via a microphone and reception voice information from the outside is outputted via a speaker, said cell phone comprising:

voice discriminating means for performing voice recognition of said transmission voice information and said reception voice information to convert the recognized voice information into character data representing character information, said voice discriminating means adding a voice discriminating tag to said character data in order to distinguish said transmission voice information and said reception voice information;

volume discriminating means for adding a volume discriminating tag, which represents a volume level of said transmission voice information and said reception voice information, to said character data; and

memory means for storing said character data to which said voice discriminating tag and said volume discriminating tag are added, said memory means storing said character data in time series.

2. A cell phone according to claim 1, further comprising:

display-type changing means for changing a display type of said character information in accordance with said volume discriminating tag and said voice discriminating tag; and

display means for displaying said character information in the display type changed by said display-type changing means.

3. A cell phone according to claim 2, wherein said display-type changing means changes at least one of a display font, a character size, and a character thickness of said character information in accordance with said volume discriminating tag.

4. A cell phone according to claim 2, wherein said display-type changing means changes a display color of said character information in accordance with said voice discriminating tag.

5. A cell phone according to claim 2, wherein said display means is a liquid-crystal panel.

6. A cell phone according to claim 2, further comprising:

specific-word conversion means for converting said character data of a specific word into image data of an image representing the specific word.

7. A cell phone according to claim 2, further comprising:

emotion judging means for judging an emotional state of a transmitter and a receiver from said transmission voice information and said reception voice information, said emotion judging means adding emotion discriminating information, which corresponds to said emotional state, to said character data,

wherein said display-type changing means changes at least one of a display font, a character size, and a character thickness of said character information in accordance with said emotion discriminating information.

8. A cell phone according to claim 7, wherein said emotion judging means calculates a mean value of at least one of a volume and a phone-call speed from said voice information, and said emotion judging means judges said emotional state on the basis of a fluctuation amount relative to said mean value.

9. A cell phone according to claim 8, wherein said mean value is calculated when a phone call has finished.

10. A cell phone according to claim 9, wherein said emotion discriminating means calculates a mean value of at least one of said input speed and said pen pressure, and said emotion judging means judges said emotional state on the basis of a fluctuation amount relative to said mean value.

11. A cell phone according to claim 10, wherein said mean value is calculated when inputting the character has finished.

12. A cell phone according to claim 10, wherein said mean value is calculated at predetermined intervals.

13. A cell phone according to claim 8, wherein said mean value is calculated at predetermined intervals.

14. A cell phone according to claim 2, further comprising:

character inputting means for recognizing a handwritten character inputted via a touch panel, said character inputting means converting said recognized character into said character data; and

emotion judging means for judging an emotional state of an input person from one of an input speed and a pen pressure of said character, said emotion judging means adding emotion discriminating information corresponding to said emotional state, to said character data,

wherein said display-type changing means changes at least one of a display font, a character size, and a character thickness of said character information in accordance with said emotion discriminating information.

15. A cell phone according to one of claims 7 and 14, wherein said emotion judging means adds emotion representing character information and emotion representing indicia information, which are determined every emotion discriminating information, to said character information.

16. A cell phone according to claim 1, further comprising:

e-mail producing means for producing an e-mail by using said character data; and

e-mail sending/receiving means for sending and receiving the e-mail produced by said e-mail producing means.

17. A cell phone according to claim 1, wherein said speaker, said microphone, and said voice discrimination means are disposed in a common housing.