Patent ID: 6421644
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
An information apparatus for notifying output information to a remote terminal in response to an input signal of a sound, comprising:a first memory block to store characteristic data representing characteristics of various sounds; a second memory block to store various items of output information in correspondence to the characteristic data of the various sounds such that each one of the items of the output information is associated to each sound; an input device that collects the sound to provide the input signal of the collected sound; an analyzer device that extracts characteristic data from the input signal of the collected sound; a controller device that operates according to the extracted characteristic data for addressing the first memory block and the second memory block to identify one of the items of the output information corresponding to the collected sound; and a transmitter device that transmits the identified one of the items of the output information to the remote terminal, wherein a new sound and a corresponding item of the output information can be registered for updating the first memory block and the second memory block such that the analyzer device extracts new characteristic data from the new sound, and the controller device registers the extracted new characteristic data into the first memory block and registers the corresponding one of the items of the output information into the second memory block.