Electronic device and method for spoken interaction thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016104484-A1
Application number	US-201514883489-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 14, 2015
Priority date	Oct 14, 2014
Publication date	Apr 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method of operating an electronic device is provided, the method including: receiving, by the electronic device that includes a display and a voice receiving device, a sequence of speech elements through the voice receiving device; displaying, on the display by the electronic device, first information that is based on at least a part of a first speech element out of the speech elements; and displaying, on the display by the electronic device, second information, which is different than the first information and is based on at least a part of a second speech element that is received later than the first speech element among the speech elements.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for operating an electronic device, the method comprising:
receiving, by the electronic device that includes a display and a voice receiving device, a sequence of speech elements through the voice receiving device; displaying, on the display by the electronic device, first information, wherein the first information is associated with at least a part of a first speech element out of the speech elements; and displaying, on the display by the electronic device, second information, wherein the second information is different than the first information and associated with at least a part of a second speech element that has been received after the first speech element.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting, by the electronic device, the first speech element to an outside of the electronic device through a communication module; and receiving, by the electronic device, the first information from the outside of the electronic device through the communication module.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting, by the electronic device, the second speech element to the outside of the electronic device through the communication module after transmitting the first speech element to the outside of the electronic device through the communication module; and receiving, by the electronic device, the second information from the outside of the electronic device through the communication module after receiving the first information from the outside of the electronic device through the communication module.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sequence of the speech elements includes at least a part of at least one sentence.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first speech element is a phrase including one or more words, and does not form a complete sentence.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the second speech element is a phrase that includes one or more words, and does not form a complete sentence, and forms at least a part of a sentence together with the first speech element.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first information includes information that is generated, retrieved, and/or recommended associated with the first speech element; and
the second information includes information that is generated, retrieved, and/or recommended associated with at least a part of a combination of the first information and the second speech element.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the first information includes a map; and
the second information includes position information on the map.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating, retrieving, or recommending, by the electronic device, the first information by processing the first speech element; and generating, retrieving, or recommending, by the electronic device, the second information by processing the second speech element.

10 . An electronic device, comprising:
a display; a voice receiving device; a communication module; a memory; and a processor, wherein, the memory stores instructions to enable the electronic device to perfoim when operations are executed: receiving a sequence of speech elements through the voice receiving device; displaying, on the display, first information, wherein the first information associated with at least a part of a first speech element out of the speech elements; and displaying, on the display, second information, wherein the second information is different than the first information and associated with at least a part of a second speech element that has been received after the first speech element.

11 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein, the memory further stores instructions to enable the electronic device to perform when operations are executed:
transmitting the first speech element to an outside of the electronic device through the communication module; and receiving the first information from the outside of the electronic device through the communication module.

12 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the memory further stores instructions to enable the electronic device to perform when operations are executed:
transmitting the second speech element to the outside of the electronic device through the communication module, after transmitting the first speech element to the outside of the electronic device through the communication module; and receiving the second information from the outside of the electronic device through the communication module, after receiving the first information from the outside of the electronic device through the communication module.

13 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the sequence of the speech elements includes at least a part of at least one sentence.

14 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the first speech element includes a phrase including one or more words, and does not form a complete sentence.

15 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the second speech element is a phrase including one or more words, and does not form a complete sentence, and forms at least a part of a single sentence together with the first speech element.

16 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the first information includes information that is generated, retrieved, and/or recommended associated with the first speech element; and
the second information includes information that is generated, retrieved, and/or recommended associated with at least a part of a combination of the first information and a second speech element.

17 . The electronic device of claim 16 , wherein the first information includes a map; and
the second information includes position information on the map.

18 . The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein, when operations are executed, the memory further stores instructions to enable the electronic device to perform:
generating, retrieving, or recommending the first information by processing the first speech element; and generating, retrieving, or recommending the second information by processing the second speech element.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chakladar Subhojit
• Lee Sanghoon

Classifications

• G06F40/30

  Semantic analysis · CPC title

• G10L15/26 Primary

  Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F40/289 Primary

  Phrasal analysis, e.g. finite state techniques or chunking · CPC title

• G10L15/22 Primary

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

• G06F17/2785

  Physics · mapped topic