Display device and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11733965-B2
Application number	US-201816971301-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2018
Priority date	Feb 21, 2018
Publication date	Aug 22, 2023
Grant date	Aug 22, 2023

Abstract

Provided are a display device for more accurately providing a function intended by a user upon reception of the voice command and an operating method thereof. The display device comprises a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with at least one external server, a storage unit, a voice recognition unit configured to receive a voice command, a control unit configured to acquire a function corresponding to the voice command, a determination module configured to determine a provider providing the function corresponding to the voice command and an output unit configured to receive data related to the function from the at least one external server or the storage unit according to the determined provider and output the function corresponding to the voice command based on the received data.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display device comprising:
a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with at least one of a plurality of external servers;
a storage;
a microphone configured to receive a voice command; and
a processor configured to:
recognize a preset keyword in the received voice command,
determine a provider providing a function corresponding to the voice command based on the recognized keyword among the plurality of external servers,
receive a result of comparing whether the determined provider matches a second provider determined through a determiner of a natural language processing (NLP) server,
receive data related to the function from the determined provider among the plurality of external servers only when the determined provider matches the second provider,
execute the function corresponding to the voice command, and output the function corresponding to the voice command.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the storage stores keywords set differently for each of the display device and the at least one of the plurality of external servers.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the provider among the plurality of external servers is a server that communicates with the determiner of the NLP server that determines the second provider providing the function corresponding to the voice command.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
if the determined provider is an external server of the plurality of external servers, transmit a data request signal to the external server corresponding to the determined provider.

5. A method for operating a display device, the method comprising:
receiving a voice command;
recognizing a preset keyword set according to a different keyword for each of the display device and a plurality of external servers in the received voice command;
determining a provider providing a function corresponding to the voice command among the plurality of external servers based on the recognized keyword;
receiving a result of comparing whether the determined provider matches a second provider determined through a determination module of a natural language processing (NLP) server:
receiving data related to the function from the determined provider among the plurality of external servers only when the determined provider matches the second provider; and
executing the function corresponding to the voice command.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Heo Seunghyun
• Park Kiwon
• Park Daegun
• Lee Sangseok
• CHOI Yookyoung
• Lee Jaekyung

Classifications

• G06F3/167 Primary

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

• G10L13/00

  Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems · CPC title

• G10L15/1815

  Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning · CPC title

• G10L15/22

  Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue · CPC title

• G10L15/30

  Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications · CPC title