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preferred embodiments in accordance with the present invention will be explained hereinbelow with reference to drawings . referring now to fig2 there is schematically illustrated in the form of a block diagram of a mobile telephone in accordance with the first embodiment of the present invention . as illustrated in fig2 the mobile telephone 10 in accordance with the first embodiment is comprised of an antenna 11 , a radio transmission / reception circuit 12 connected to the antenna 11 , a control circuit 13 , a voice signal processing circuit 14 , a microphone 15 , a receiver 16 , key switches 17 , rom 18 , ram 19 , a real - time clock circuit 20 , a voice recognition circuit 21 , and lcd 22 . the radio transmission / reception circuit 12 , the voice signal processing circuit 14 , the key switches 17 , rom 18 , ram 19 , the real - time clock circuit 20 , the voice recognition circuit 21 , and lcd 22 are all electrically connected to the control circuit 13 . the microphone 15 , the receiver 16 , and the voice recognition circuit 21 are all electrically connected to the voice signal processing circuit 14 . the antenna 11 receives a radio signal from a base station ( not illustrated ), and feeds the thus received radio signal to the radio transmission / reception circuit 12 . the antenna 11 receives also a signal transmitted from the radio transmission / reception circuit 12 , and transmits it to the base station . the radio transmission / reception circuit 12 is comprised mainly of a reception circuit and a transmission circuit . when a call arrives at the mobile telephone 10 , the radio transmission / reception circuit 12 receives a call signal from the antenna 11 , and transmits it to the control circuit 13 . the control circuit 13 stores the thus received call signal into ram 19 as a reception history data . on the other hand , when a user makes a call by operating the key switches 17 , the control circuit 13 provides a transmission signal to the radio transmission / reception circuit 12 , which transmits the thus received transmission signal to the base station via the antenna 11 . the control circuit 13 stores the transmission signal into ram 19 as a transmission history data . the control circuit 13 is connected to the real - time clock circuit 20 , which informs the control circuit 13 of time - wise information including a year , a month , a day , a time , and the like . when storing the reception or transmission history into ram 19 , the control circuit 13 adds the time - wise information supplied from the real - time clock circuit 20 , to the reception or transmission history . that is , a caller &# 39 ; s phone number or destination phone number is stored into ram 19 , along with the time - wise information including a year , a month , a day and a time at which the information is stored , as reception / transmission history data . when the key switches 17 are operated by a user to thereby put the mobile telephone 10 in a condition in which voice entry can be carried out , the control circuit 13 supplies voice data to be used for voice recognition , stored in rom 18 , to the voice recognition circuit 21 . then , when a user speaks to the microphone 15 to make entry of voice data , the voice signal processing circuit 14 converts the entered voice data to a digital signal , and supplies the thus converted digital signal to the voice recognition circuit 21 . the voice recognition circuit 21 compares the voice data supplied from rom 18 and the data supplied from the voice signal processing circuit 14 with each other to thereby judge what is meant by the voice data entered through the microphone 15 . when the voice recognition circuit 21 completes the judgment , the voice recognition circuit 21 gives an instruction to the control circuit 13 to both receive response voice data stored in rom 18 for noticing a result of the judgment and display the judgment result on lcd 22 . the control circuit 13 reads out the response voice data transmitted from rom 18 , and supplies the thus read out response voice data to the voice signal processing circuit 14 , while displaying the judgment result on lcd 22 . the voice signal processing circuit 14 converts the supplied response voice data into a voice signal , and transmits the thus converted signal through the receiver 16 . hereinbelow is explained an operation of the mobile telephone 10 in accordance with the first embodiment . fig3 is a flow chart of an operation of the mobile telephone 10 in accordance with the first embodiment of the present invention . first , an initial value n is set to be equal to zero ( n = 0 ) in step s 21 . this initial value constitutes a memory location number of reception or transmission history data of which the date and time are nearest to a current date and time . a memory such as ram 19 can store a maximum number n of reception and transmission history data . namely , the reception or transmission history data is numbered as n = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , n − 2 , n − 1 and n in a direction from the oldest to newest ones . the key switches are operated to thereby start up the voice recognition procedure for accepting a voice input , in step s 22 . when no voice input is entered for a certain period of time starting from step s 22 , the control circuit 13 terminates the voice recognition procedure , and waits again for restarting the voice recognition procedure . if a voice is entered and recognized in step s 24 , and judged in step s 25 to be a voice requiring to evoke reception history , the n - th data is displayed , in step s 26 . herein , the date and time of the n - th data are nearest to the current date and time . at this time , if a voice - response mode is set , the result of the voice recognition is output through the receiver 16 as well . then , the initial value n is changed to n = n + 1 in step s 27 , and the control circuit 13 waits for a next operation to be carried out by a user of the mobile telephone . if the voice recognition is ended in step s 28 , the reception history display and the voice recognition procedure are terminated in step s 29 ( yes in step s 28 ). if the reception history display and the voice recognition procedure are continued in step s 28 ( no in step s 28 ), the reception history flag is turned on in order to recognize that the reception history is currently evoked , in step s 30 . at this time , if a voice for prompting to display a next data , such as “ next display ”, for example , is entered , the voice recognition is carried out again , and the n - th data ( of which the date and time are nearest to the current ones ) is displayed . herein , the date and time of the n - th data is older than the previous data , but is newest among the rest . at this time , if the voice - response mode is set , the result of the voice recognition is output through the receiver 16 . the continuation of the voice recognition procedure enables to display the reception history data beginning with the oldest one stored in ram 19 in the mobile telephone . on the other hand , if the voice input is judged to be a voice requiring to evoke transmission history in step s 25 , the n - th data is displayed in step s 31 . herein , the date and time of the n - th data are nearest to the current date and time . at this time , if the voice - response mode is set , the result of the voice recognition procedure is output through the receiver 16 as well . then , the initial value n is changed to n = n + 1 in step s 32 , and the control circuit 13 waits for a next operation . when the voice recognition is forced to end in step s 33 , the transmission history display and the voice recognition procedure are ended in step s 34 . if the transmission history display and the voice recognition procedure are continued to be carried out , the transmission history flag is turned on in step s 35 in order to recognize that the transmission history is currently evoked . at this time , if a voice for prompting to display a next data , such as “ next display ”, for example , is entered , the voice recognition procedure is carried out again , and the n - th data is displayed . herein , the date and time of the n - th data is older than the previous data , but is newest among the rest . if a voice - response mode is set , the voice recognition result is output through the receiver 16 . this continuation of the voice recognition procedure enables to display the transmission history data beginning with the oldest one stored in ram 19 in the mobile telephone . the mobile telephone in accordance with the second embodiment is described hereinbelow . in the above - mentioned first embodiment , transmission or reception history is first evoked , and then a voice is entered , resulting in that the transmission or reception history data can be evoked one after another . each of the transmission and reception history data is stored in ram 19 , including time - wise information added thereto by means of the real - time clock circuit 20 . hence , by making entry of a voice together with time - wise information , reception or transmission history data associated with the time - wise information can be evoked . the second embodiment is explained hereinbelow with reference to fig4 which is a flow chart of an operation to be carried out in the second embodiment . first , an initial value n is set to be equal to zero ( n = 0 ) in step s 40 . this initial value constitutes a memory location number of reception or transmission history data of which the date and time are nearest to a current date and time . a memory such as ram 19 can store a maximum number n of reception and transmission history data . namely , the reception or transmission history data is numbered as n = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , n − 2 , n − 1 and n in a direction from the oldest to newest ones . the key switches are operated to thereby start up the voice recognition procedure for accepting a voice input , in step s 41 . when no voice input is entered for a certain period of time starting from step s 41 , the control circuit 13 terminates the voice recognition procedure , and waits again for restarting the voice recognition procedure . if a voice is entered and recognized in step s 42 , and judged in step s 43 to be a voice requiring to evoke reception history , the control circuit 13 proceeds to an operation for displaying the reception history data . if it is judged in step s 45 that a voice input includes calendar information such as date and time like “ reception history dated january 3 ”, for example , and is actually judged to include such calendar information in the result of voice recognition , reception history data stored at a corresponding x - th memory is retrieved and evoked for display on lcd 22 , in step s 46 . at this time , if the voice - response mode is set , the recognition result is output through the receiver 16 as well . then , the initial value n is changed to n = n + x in step s 47 , and the control circuit 13 waits for a next operation to be carried out by a user of the mobile telephone . it should be noted that if the result of the retrieval shows that there exists no data at the indicated date , namely , the january 3 , an x - th reception history data having the date nearest to the retrieval date is displayed in step s 46 . if it is judged in step s 45 that no calendar information such as date and time is added to the voice input , an n - th data is displayed in step s 48 . herein , the date and time of the n - th data is nearest to the current date and time . at this time , if the voice - response mode is set , the result of the voice recognition is output through the receiver 16 as well . then , the initial value n is changed into n = n + 1 in step s 49 , and the control circuit 13 waits for a next operation . if the voice recognition is forced to end in step s 50 , the reception history display and the voice recognition procedure are terminated in step s 51 . if the recognition is continued in step s 50 , the reception history flag is turned on in step s 52 in order to recognize that the reception history is currently evoked . at this time , if a prompting voice to display a next data , such as “ next display ”, for example , is entered , the voice recognition is carried out , and the n - th data is displayed . herein , the n - th data is just older than the previous data by only one . if the voice - response mode is set , the recognition result is output through the receiver 16 . the continuation of the recognition enables to display the reception history data beginning with the oldest one stored in ram 19 in the mobile telephone . if time - wise information like “ december 25 ”, for example , is made entry again during entry of a voice , reception history data associated with the indicated date can be retrieved to display a corresponding x - th data . if the entered voice is judged in step s 44 to be a voice requiring to evoke transmission history , the control circuit 13 proceeds to an operation for displaying the transmission history . if it is judged in step s 53 that a voice input includes calendar information such as date and time like “ transmission history dated january 3 ”, for example , and is actually judged to include such calendar information in the result of voice recognition , transmission history data stored at a corresponding x - th memory is retrieved and evoked for display on lcd 22 , in step s 54 . at this time , if the voice - response mode is set , the recognition result is output through the receiver 16 as well . then , the initial value n is changed to n = n + x in step s 55 , and the control circuit 13 waits for a next operation to be carried out by a user of the mobile telephone . it should be noted that if the result of the retrieval shows that there exists no data at the indicated date , namely , the january 3 , an x - th transmission history data having the date nearest to the retrieval date is displayed in step s 54 . if it is judged in step s 53 that no calendar information such as date and time is added to the voice input , an n - th data is displayed in step s 56 . herein , the date and time of the n - th data is nearest to the current date and time . at this time , if the voice - response mode is set , the result of the voice recognition is output through the receiver 16 as well . then , the initial value n is changed into n = n + 1 in step s 57 , and the control circuit 13 waits for a next operation . if the voice recognition is forced to end in step s 58 , the transmission history display and the voice recognition procedure are terminated in step s 59 . if the recognition is continued in step s 58 , the transmission history flag is turned on in step s 60 in order to recognize that the transmission history is currently evoked . at this time , if a prompting voice to display a next data , such as “ next display ”, for example , is entered , the voice recognition is carried out , and the n - th data is displayed . herein , the n - th data is just older than the previous data by only one . if the voice - response mode is set , the recognition result is output through the receiver 16 . the continuation of the recognition enables to display the transmission history data beginning with the oldest one stored in ram 19 in the mobile telephone . if time - wise information like “ december 25 ”, for example , is made entry again during entry of a voice , transmission history data associated with the indicated date can be retrieved to display a corresponding x - th data . hereinbelow is explained the mobile telephone in accordance with the third embodiment of the present invention . in the first and second embodiments having been described with reference to fig3 and 4 , the voice recognition procedure is always in operation while reception or transmission history data is being evoked . however , the prevent invention can be applied to a mobile telephone having an independent voice recognition function , that is , a mobile telephone in which the voice recognition procedure is automatically terminated upon delivery of a recognition result . the third embodiment of the present invention is explained hereinbelow with reference to fig5 which is a flow chart of an operation to be carried out in the third embodiment . first , an initial value n is set to be equal to zero ( n = 0 ) in step s 70 . this initial value constitutes a memory location number of reception or transmission history data of which the date and time are nearest to a current date and time . a memory such as ram 19 can store a maximum number n of reception and transmission history data . namely , the reception or transmission history data is numbered as n = 0 , 1 , 2 , . . . , n − 2 , n − 1 and n in a direction from the oldest to newest ones . the key switches are operated to thereby start up the voice recognition procedure for accepting a voice input , in step s 71 . in step s 72 , it is checked as to whether any history is currently displayed on lcd screen 22 . if no history is displayed ( no in step s 72 ), there is conducted the same procedure as the procedure starting from the marking aa to the marking bb in fig3 . the procedure will not be discussed any longer . it is now assumed that the voice recognition is ended , and a result of the recognition is transmitted to the control circuit 13 to thereby terminate the voice recognition procedure . if it is ascertained in step s 72 that any history data is displayed on lcd 22 , it is checked in step s 73 as to which history is being displayed on lcd 22 , reception or transmission history . depending upon the history being displayed on lcd 22 , the corresponding history flag is turned on . the control circuit 13 waits for a voice to be entered . if no voice is made entry ( no in step s 74 ), the voice recognition procedure is terminated , and the control circuit 13 is put in a waiting condition again until the voice recognition is restarted . if a voice is entered ( yes in step s 74 ), the control circuit 13 proceeds to a voice recognition procedure in step s 75 . at this time , if it is judged that a prompting voice to display a next reception history data , such as “ reception history ” or “ next display ”, for example , has been entered while reception history , for example , is being displayed , the judgement result is transmitted to the control circuit 13 , which terminates the voice recognition procedure . receiving the judgement result , the control circuit 13 displays an n - th data on lcd 22 , in step s 77 . at this time , if the voice - response mode is set , the recognition result is output through the receiver 16 as well . then , the initial value n is changed into n = n + 1 in step s 78 , and the control circuit 13 terminates the voice recognition procedure in step s 79 . then , the control circuit 13 waits for a next operation , that is , an operation for restarting the voice recognition procedure . while the present invention has been described in connection with certain preferred embodiments , it is to be understood that the subject matter encompassed by way of the present invention is not to be limited to those specific embodiments . on the contrary , it is intended for the subject matter of the invention to include all alternatives , modifications and equivalents as can be included within the spirit and scope of the following claims . the entire disclosure of japanese patent application no . 10 - 75412 filed on mar . 24 , 1998 including specification , claims , drawings and summary is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety .

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