Portable cellular phone with custom melody ring setting capability
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorHideyuki Yoshino
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Abstract
A portable cellular phone including the ability to customize a ring signal. The device accepts a spoken voice signal entered via a microphone and converts that signal into a digital audio signal. The device then obtains musical scale information from the digital audio signal by extracting frequency components. The device uses those frequency components to generate an audio output signal based on the extracted musical scale frequency components. This output signal can then be used as the ring signal, or for other purposes. Thus, a user can input a desired musical scale using the user's voice to customize the ring signal without relying solely on keypad operations.
Claims9
A portable cellular phone which enables setting of a melody for a ringing tone comprising:
- conversion means for converting a voice signal entered from a microphone into a digital audio signal;
- computation means for obtaining musical scale information from the digital audio signal by extracting frequency components therefrom, said computation means also for generating and outputting a musical scale signal from the musical scale information;
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- drive means for driving an audio output device on the basis of the musical scale signal, so as to enable setting of a ringing on the basis of the voice entered by the user.
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