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US 6,748,075 B2Granted
Telephone and cordless telephone
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorAkira Ojiro
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Abstract
A telephone reads out caller information between rings even if a caller is unregistered. The telephone includes a caller information receiver for receiving a call ring and caller information coming in from a caller identification service, a caller information memory for storing the received caller information, a voice generator for generating voice data from the caller information, a speaker for outputting the voice data, and an output-time monitor for monitoring appropriate and inappropriate time for announcing the caller information in voice form.
Claims25
A telephone comprising:
- a caller information receiver for receiving an incoming call ring and caller information;
- a caller information memory for storing the received caller information;
- a voice generator for generating voice data from the stored caller information;
- an output-time monitor for monitoring an appropriate time for a voice announcement of the caller information, by determining a ring pattern of an incoming ring and by monitoring a cumulative time length of an incoming ring prior to outputting the generated voice data, and by making a determination according to a length of a pause after the incoming call ring whether or not the pause after the incoming call ring is an interval in a double ring;
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- an audio output unit for outputting the generated voice data based on the determination.
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A cordless telephone comprising:
- a base unit including:
- a caller information receiver for receiving an incoming call ring and caller information;
- a caller information memory for storing the received caller information;
- a voice generator for generating voice data from the stored caller information;
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- an output-time monitor for monitoring an appropriate time for a voice announcement of the caller information, by determining a ring pattern of an incoming ring and by monitoring a cumulative time length of an incoming ring prior to outputting the generated voice data, and by making a determination according to a pause after the incoming call ring whether or not the pause after the incoming call ring is an interval in a double ring;
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- a handset including a first audio output unit for outputting the voice data based on the determination,
- wherein said handset establishes bi-directional wireless communications with said base unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.