ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. RE51,034, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to D&M Holdings Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Audio device and computer readable program" was invented by Yukihiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide an audio device having a voice operation receiving function with which the state of a voice recognition process can be notified in detail without affecting an audio playback environment, and which is inexpensive and has an excellent degree of freedom in design. [Solution] A wireless speaker 1 has a voice operation receiving function that receives an operation by a voice input into a microphone 11. The wireless spe...