Patent ID: 6975994

Claim:
A media system, comprising: a data-processing system, having a first housing, to provide informational data; a media device having a second housing; and a communication channel to provide bi-directional communication between said data-processing system and said media device; said first and second housings being non-integral; said media device converting said informational data from said data processing system into information that is human-perceivable; said media device including, a speech recognition system, located within said second housing, to recognize human speech and to convert predetermined portions of the received human speech into commands, said commands being communicated to said data-processing system via said communication channel to enable speech driven control of a media presentation, an imaging system, located within said second housing, to display images corresponding to said informational data, a first transducer system, located without said second housing, to receive human speech and to convert the human speech into infrared signals representative of the received human speech, and a second transducer system, located within said second housing, to receive transmitted infrared signals and to convert the received infrared signals representative of the received human speech into electrical signals representative of the received human speech, said electrical signals being processed by said speech recognition system to recognize the received human speech.