Radio telephone apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorAkihiko Fujinaka
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Abstract
A radio telephone comprising a main body enclosing a transmitting circuit and a receiving circuit; a handset removably mounted to the main body, the handset including a microphone electrically connected to the transmitting circuit and a speaker electrically connected to the receiving circuit; a voice recognition circuit for recognizing a voice input to the microphone and for performing a dialing operation based on the voice. An extension module is removably mounted on the main body. A mute switch, which also enables the voice recognition circuit, is removably connected to the main body, or to an extension module removably mounted on the main body, thus adding to the portability of the radio telephone.
Claims10
A radio telephone comprising:
- a main body enclosing a transmitting circuit and a receiving circuit;
- a handset removably mounted to the main body, the handset including a microphone electrically connected to the transmitting circuit and a speaker electrically connected to the receiving circuit;
- a voice recognition circuit for recognizing a voice input to the microphone and for performing a dialing operation based on the voice;
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- a switch which, if activated when the radio telephone is in a talk state, disconnects the microphone from the transmitting circuit, and if activated when the radio telephone is not in a talk state, enables the voice recognition circuit.
A radio telephone comprising:
- a main body enclosing a transmitting circuit and a receiving circuit;
- a handset removably mounted to the main body, the handset including a microphone electrically connected to the transmitting circuit and a speaker electrically connected to the receiving circuit;
- a voice recognition circuit for recognizing a voice input to the microphone and for performing a dialing operation based on the voice, the voice recognition circuit being enclosed in an extension module removably mounted on the main body;
- a switch removably connected to the extension module for enabling the voice recognition circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.