US 6,983,251 B1
Information selection apparatus selecting desired information from plurality of audio information by mainly using audio
Azusa Umemoto, Tenri (Japan); Mitsuru Minakuchi, Kyoto (Japan); and Naoki Urano, Sakai (Japan)
Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/504,438.
Claims priority of application No. 11-036299 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 1999; application No. 11-182801 (JP), filed on Jun. 29, 1999; and application No. 11-306499 (JP), filed on Oct. 28, 1999.
Int. Cl. G10L 21/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 704—270 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information selection method selecting desired information from a plurality of information represented by sounds, comprising the steps of:
storing an association between each of a plurality of information and at least one sound,
time-controlling a position of each sound independently,
selecting a sound,
wherein said step of selecting sound includes the step of selecting information associated with sound, and
controlling volume in association with the position of each sound, wherein the step of selecting information is a single operation of selecting a sound of the maximum volume, and the sound of the maximum volume is selected when the user enters a sound selection indication.