ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,168, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).
"Selecting options by uttered speech" was invented by Shunichi Sugiura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving apparatus includes a control unit that performs a process of searching for one of a channel and a content on the basis of a phrase that is recognized from an uttered speech of a user, a process of selecting one of a single channel and a single content from among a plurality of channels and a plurality of contents obtained through the search process, a process of displaying, on a display unit, one of the selected content and a content...