Patent ID: 6621903
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A portable telephone set comprising:voice input means for inputting, through a voice, pitch names of an incoming call reporting melody in the order of musical notes; speech recognition means which, every time when pitch name information is input through a voice by the voice input means, compares data representing the pitch name, produced from the voiced pitch name information, with previously cataloged pitch name data to find out pitch name data which matches the data representing the pitch name, thereby performing speech recognition; a display unit for displaying a musical staff, a pitch name, and a musical note; display control means for displaying as a character the pitch name based on the pitch name data selected by the speech recognition means, on a screen of the display unit with the musical staff displayed thereon; key entry means which, every time when the character corresponding to the pitch name is newly displayed on the display unit, permits the keying of the note duration of the pitch name displayed as the character together with the musical staff on the display unit; musical note data production means which produces musical note data based on the note duration data keyed by the key entry means and the pitch name corresponding to the note duration and, in addition, displays on the musical staff a musical note corresponding to the musical note data; a storage unit for storing score data of the incoming call reporting melody, the score data comprising a plurality of musical note data which have been successfully produced by the musical note data production means; and incoming melody sounding means which, in response to an incoming call, converts the score data stored in the storage unit to a melody waveform signal which is then sounded through a speaker.