Patent ID: 6813341
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
An item locator system having both voice activation and voice responsive capabilities for location feedback to locate one or more specific goods in a retail store, which comprises:a.) a support structure, for physically supporting said system at one or more locations, and functionally containing or connected to the following components: b.) a continuous speech recognition digital signal processor (DSP), said continuous speech recognition engine utilizes tokens of raw acoustic signals representing utterances or words and matches these against a set of models and then relies upon likelihood to select a most likely model to decode signals for interpretation; c.) a programmable microprocessor interfaced with said speech recognition DSP; d.) sufficient programming and circuitry contained within said programmable microprocessor to provide for voice activation and voice recognition and response to provide item location to a user wherein item and location data are defined by manager input to said system; e.) voice input means connected to said speech recognition DSP; f.) memory storage means connected to said programmable microprocessor for storage of operational inputs, control inputs, voice recognition vocabulary for storage of command match and execute functions; g.) at least one user feedback unit and connection from said programmable microprocessor to said at least one user feedback unit, said at least one user feedback unit adapted to provide feedback selected from the group consisting of audio feedback, visual feedback and combinations thereof, to a user in response to an item location query.