Phone device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsHikaru Fukuda, Masaru Baba, Hideo Fujii
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Abstract
A cordless phone base unit includes a storage unit that stores a phone number of other party in association with a name of the other party in a registration table, a reading unit that reads the name of the other party from the storage unit based on a received phone number of the other party, a language selection unit that selects a language corresponding to the read name of the other party, and a voice data generating unit that converts the read name of the other party into voice data in the selected language and outputs the voice data.
Claims14
A phone device comprising:
- a storage configured to store a registration table, in which phone numbers are associated with names of parties that own the phone numbers, and a language-specific name table, in which a plurality of names are registered for each of multiple languages;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the storage and configured to:
- in response to receiving a phone number, read a name of a party associated with the received phone number from the storage;
- select a language for which the name of the party is registered in the language-specific name table;
- select a default language when the name is not registered in the language-specific name table;
- and
- convert the name of the party into voice data in the selected language and output the voice data.
A phone device comprising:
- a storage configured to store a registration table, in which phone numbers are associated with names of parties who own the phone numbers and each of the names is associated with a first language, with a second language, or with no valid language;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the storage and configured to:
- in response to receiving a phone number, read a name of a party associated with the received phone number from the storage;
- responsive to the name associated with the first language, convert the name into voice data in the first language and output the voice data;
- responsive to the name associated with the second language, convert the name into voice data in the second language and output the voice data;
- responsive to the name associated with no valid language, convert the name into voice data in a default language and output the voice data, wherein the default language is one of the first language or the second language.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.