Electronic device and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10957321-B2
Application number	US-201716319545-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2017
Priority date	Jul 21, 2016
Publication date	Mar 23, 2021
Grant date	Mar 23, 2021

Abstract

An example electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a communication circuit for communicating with a server storing information on a plurality of clips and storing keywords by the plurality of clips; an output device; an input device; and a processor which, when a voice uttered by a user is received via the input device, transmits a clip request signal to the server, based on a keyword included in the received uttered voice and information on content outputted by the output device, and outputs a short clip via the output device, based on information on the short clip received from the server in response to the request signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a communication interface including circuitry configured to communicate with a server for storing information on a plurality of clips and keywords associated with the plurality of clips, wherein the clips comprise audio content and the keywords are contained in audio content of the clips;
a speaker;
a microphone; and
a processor configured to:
in response to receiving a user's uttered voice through the microphone, obtain a keyword included in the received uttered voice;
control the communication interface to transmit a clip request signal to the server based on the keyword and information regarding a content output by the speaker;
control the communication interface to receive from the server clip information regarding a clip based on the request signal; and
control the speaker to output the clip based on the received clip information

wherein the clip information includes time information associated with occurrence of the keyword in the audio content of the clip.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the received clip information further includes location information on a location at which the clip is stored.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of clips comprises one or both of video content and audio content generated by editing original content based on specific keywords.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to, in response to receiving additional information regarding the clip, control the speaker to output additional information regarding the clip, the additional information including at least one of a title and a genre of original content associated with the clip, broadcast time of the original content, generation time of the clip, broadcaster information of the original content, or the keyword.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising a display.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to control the speaker to output additional information.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the clip request signal is further based on a keyword which is repeated a predetermined times or more during a predetermined time in audio output by the speaker.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the communication interface further receives from the server additional response information based on the request signal and the processor is configured to control the speaker to output the additional response information.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the request signal includes the keyword and user information and the communication interface receives from the server the clip information and the user information.

10. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the keyword is obtained by controlling the communication interface to transmit the received uttered voice to a voice recognition server or to the server, and to receive the keyword from the voice recognition server or the server.

11. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to process the received uttered voice to obtain the keyword.

12. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to, based on receiving the clip information, switch the output device from outputting the content to outputting the clip.

13. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to, based on receiving the clip information, control the output device to simultaneously output the content and the clip.

14. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the clip request signal further comprises location information regarding a location of the electronic device.

15. A method of controlling an electronic device which communicates with a server for storing information on a plurality of clips and keywords associated with the plurality of short clips, wherein the clips comprise audio content and the keywords are contained in audio content of the clips, the method comprising:
outputting, by a speaker, content;
receiving, by a microphone, a user's uttered voice;
in response to receiving the uttered voice, obtaining a keyword included in the received uttered voice;
transmitting a clip request signal to the server based on the keyword and information regarding the content output by the speaker;
receiving from the server clip information regarding a clip based on the request signal; and
outputting, by the speaker, the clip based on the received clip information,
wherein the clip information includes time information associated with occurrence of the keyword in the audio content of the clip.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the received clip information includes at least one of location information on a location at which the clip is stored and time information associated with occurrence of the keyword in the audio content of the clip.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein each of the plurality of clips comprises one or both of video content and audio content generated by editing original content based on specific keywords.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein, in response to receiving additional information regarding the clip, outputting additional information regarding the clip, the additional information including at least one of a title and a genre of original content associated with the clip, broadcast time of the original content, generation time of the clip, broadcaster information of the original content, or the keyword.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the outputting of the clip comprises outputting the additional information by the speaker.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium for an electronic device storing a program which, when executed by a processor of an electronic device, causes the processor to:
in response to receiving a user's uttered voice through a microphone of the electronic device, obtain a keyword included in the received uttered voice;
control a communication circuit of the electronic device to transmit a clip request signal to a server based on the keyword and information regarding content output by a speaker, the server for storing information on a plurality of clips and keywords associated with the plurality of clips, wherein the clips comprise audio content and the keywords are contained in audio content of the clips;
control the communication circuit to receive from the server clip information regarding a clip based on the request signal; and
control a speaker of the electronic device to output the clip based on the received clip information,
wherein the clip information includes time information associated with occurrence of the keyword in the audio content of the clip.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Song Young-Suk
• Kim Han-Ki
• Lim Dong-Hyun
• Park Hae-Kwang
• Sohn Jun-Ho
• Lee Woo-Jung

Classifications

• G06F3/16

  Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L) · CPC title

• G08C2201/31

  Voice input · CPC title

• G06F3/167 Primary

  Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback · CPC title

• G06F16/683

  using metadata automatically derived from the content · CPC title

• G06F16/48

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title