Sunday, 23 April 2017

Patent Review: Blind dialing US 8126512 B2

Who would not like to be able to call or send a text without tapping away on our screens? Voice assistants try to make this task easier by listening to voice commands. These commands too, however, require extensive setup, as your phone first needs to learn your voice pattern and pronunciations.
The invention 'Blind Dialing' tries to do away with this need for setup by using Morse code. It listens to acoustic signals and using DSP algorithms to identifies the morse code pattern from it. It then compares the decoded data to a set of existing phone numbers or identifiers for phone numbers and dial. The claims of this patent include a wireless communication device for analysing the destination and source addresses, decode morse signals and perform filtering of noise using DSP algorithms.
The only drawback for this: the user will have to learn morse code!

https://www.google.co.in/patents/US8126512?dq=Blind+dialing+US+8126512+B2&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjot6nJ-8jTAhVEp48KHZ7NCsUQ6AEIJjAA

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