Display device and operation method for same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12322386-B2
Application number	US-201917628847-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 22, 2019
Priority date	Jul 22, 2019
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure is for more accurately recognizing voice commands continuously uttered by a user, and may include: a voice acquisition module configured to recognize a voice; and a controller configured to, when acquiring a second voice command after acquiring a first voice command through the voice acquisition module, execute a function corresponding to the second voice command when the controller determines that the second voice command is a voice command connected to the first voice command.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display device comprising:
a display;
a microphone;
a storage; and
a controller configured to:
acquire, via the microphone, a first voice command concurrent with the display device operating in a continuous speech mode;
execute a function corresponding to the first voice command;
control the display to display a result of executing the function corresponding to the first voice command;
acquire, from the storage, a required context corresponding to the first voice command, wherein the required context is for determining whether to operate according to a next voice command when the next voice command is received;
based on the required context corresponding to the first voice command, acquire, from the storage, at least one addable command that is connected to the first voice command, concurrent with the display device operating in the continuous speech mode, wherein the acquiring of the at least one addable command in the continuous speech mode is for freeing a user of the display device from being required to operate the display device via a remote control device, based on the displayed result of executing the function corresponding to the first voice command;
control the display to display the at least one addable command;
after acquiring the first voice command, acquire, via the microphone, a second voice command;
acquire, from the storage, an execution context corresponding to the second voice command, wherein the execution context is for determining whether to execute a voice command;
determine whether the second voice command corresponds to the at least one addable command, by comparing the required context corresponding to the first voice command with the execution context corresponding to the second voice command; and
execute a function corresponding to the second voice command based on determining that the second voice command is a voice command connected to the first voice command.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein, when the controller determines that the second voice command is not the voice command connected to the first voice command, the controller is configured not to execute the function corresponding to the second voice command.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein, when the controller determines that the second voice command is not the voice command connected to the first voice command, the controller is configured to control the display to display a message indicating that executing the function corresponding to the second voice command is impossible.

4. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to determine the second voice command is the voice command connected to the first voice command when the execution context of the second voice command is included in the required context of the first voice command.

5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein, when the execution context of the second voice command is not included in the required context of the first voice command, the controller is configured to determine that the second voice command is a voice command not connected to the first voice command.

6. The display device of claim 1 , wherein, after the first voice command is acquired and before the second voice command is acquired, the controller is configured to extract at least one voice command determined as being connected to the first voice command.

7. The display device of claim 6 , wherein, when the second voice command corresponds to the at least one voice command extracted as being connected to the first voice command, the controller is configured to execute the function corresponding to the second voice command.

8. The display device of claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured to control the display to display the at least one voice command extracted as being connected to the first voice command.

9. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to determine a voice command in which the execution context is a required context of the first voice command as being connected to the first voice command.

10. The display device of claim 1 , wherein, when the controller acquires a context switch command from the first voice command, the controller is configured to reset an execution condition context.

11. The display device of claim 1 , wherein when the first voice command is different, the controller is configured to perform a different operation even when the second voice command is the same.

12. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the storage is configured to store a table in which execution contexts and required contexts for a plurality of voice commands are mapped.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Lee Donghee

Classifications

• G10L2015/223

  Execution procedure of a spoken command · CPC title

• G10L15/30

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

• G10L15/07

  to the speaker · CPC title

• G10L2015/228

  of application context · CPC title

• G10L25/51

  for comparison or discrimination · CPC title