Speech enabled management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9786276-B2
Application number	US-201414467242-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 25, 2014
Priority date	Aug 25, 2014
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A speech-enabled management system is described herein. One system includes a grammar building tool configured to create a set of grammar keys based on ontology analytics corresponding to data received from a digital video manager (DVM) server, a speech recognition engine configured to recognize a speech command from a set of grammar files, a command translator configured to translate the recognized speech command to an executable command, and a processor configured to execute the speech command based on a particular grammar key from the set of grammar keys.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A speech-enabled surveillance management system, comprising:
a grammar building tool configured to create a set of grammar keys based on ontology analytics corresponding to data received from a digital video manager (DVM) server and including a mapping table that associates each of a plurality of locations to at least one camera located within a particular facility, wherein the set of grammar keys corresponds to the particular facility, and wherein a first set of the grammar keys are for applications of the particular facility that remain constant during application execution and a second set of the grammar keys changes based on a change of the particular facility from a first facility to a second facility;
a speech recognition engine configured to recognize a speech command from a set of grammar files;
a control dialog manager configured to determine, upon recognizing the speech command, that the recognized speech command is applicable for a current facility context;
a command translator configured to translate, upon determining the recognized speech command is applicable, the recognized applicable speech command to an executable command by mapping the speech command to a location and a particular camera associated with the location based on the mapping table and recognized speech command, wherein the location is a physical location within the particular facility and the recognized speech command comprises the location; and
a processor configured to:
execute the speech command;
display a video feed of a portion of the facility by a monitor based on the executed speech command and the particular camera associated with the location.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a speech synthesizer configured to identify and select a pronunciation lexicon based on pronunciation phonemes associated with domain terms.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the speech recognition engine is based on operator voice training profile or a speech pattern.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the ontology analytics are based on ontological factors, including inferences and associations between two data elements.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the DVM server includes camera configuration data, location data, and system configuration data.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the set of grammar keys is configured to:
correspond to a camera located within a particular area and control the camera in a sequential or mapping order; and
control a set of operations, wherein the set of operations include pan, tilt, zoom, start, stop, recording, clear, monitor, and tile features.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the executed speech command is performed at a workstation that includes a surveillance monitor, video, console, or microphone.

8. A method for operating a speech-enabled surveillance management system, comprising:
creating a set of grammar keys from a plurality of grammar files, wherein the set of grammar keys corresponds to a particular facility, and wherein a first set of the grammar keys are for applications of the particular facility that remain constant during application execution and a second set of the grammar keys changes based on a change of the particular facility from a first facility to a second facility, and wherein creating the set of grammar keys is based on ontology analytics including a mapping table that associates each of a plurality of locations to at least one camera located within the particular facility;
identifying a speech command;
determining, upon identifying the speech command, whether the speech command is applicable for a current facility context; and
upon determining that the identified speech command is applicable for the current facility context:
translating a grammar key from the set of grammar keys based on the speech command, wherein translating the grammar key includes mapping the speech command to a location and a particular camera associated with the location based on the mapping table and identified speech command, wherein the location is a physical location within the particular facility and the identified speech command comprises the location; and
executing the speech command based on the translated grammar key; and

displaying a video feed of a portion of the facility by a monitor based on the executed speech command and the particular camera associated with the location.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the method includes identifying the speech command by deciphering the speech command from a plurality of pronunciation speech lexicons.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein executing the speech command includes commanding a particular camera, view, audit, recording, or operational task.

11. A speech-enabled surveillance management system, comprising:
a grammar building tool configured to create a set of grammar keys based on ontology analytics corresponding to a set of data received from a DVM server and including a mapping table that associates each of a plurality of locations to at least one camera located within a particular facility, wherein the set of grammar keys corresponds to the particular facility, and wherein a first set of the grammar keys are for applications of the particular facility that remain constant during application execution and a second set of the grammar keys changes based on a change of the particular facility from a first facility to a second facility;
a speech recognition engine configured to recognize a speech command from a set of grammar files;
a control dialog manager configured to determine, upon recognizing the speech command, that the recognized speech command is applicable for a current facility context;
a command translator configured to translate, upon determining the recognized speech command is applicable, the recognized applicable speech command to an executable speech command by mapping the speech command to a location and a particular camera associated with the location based on the mapping table and recognized speech command, wherein the location is a physical location within the particular facility and the recognized speech command comprises the location; and
a processor configured to:
execute the speech command; and
display a video feed of a portion of the facility by a monitor based on the executed speech command and the particular camera associated with the location.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the grammar building tool includes a plurality of grammar files associated with recognition grammar, features, and location.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the speech synthesizer is configured to synthesize text to speech signals and transfer the speech signals to a speaker.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the speech recognition engine is configured to identify the speech command based on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon language aspects.

15. The system of claim 11 , further comprising displaying camera views on surveillance monitors and automatically changing a number of camera tile views on the surveillance monitors based on a number of cameras.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the mapping table associates a location in a key table with a camera or tile location in a camera table.

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Meruva Jayaprakash
• Chandra Acharya Bhabesh
• Kommoju Sekhar
• Huseth Steve
• Reddy Chandrakantha

Classifications

• H04N23/63

  by using electronic viewfinders · CPC title

• G10L2015/223

  Execution procedure of a spoken command · CPC title

• H04N5/232

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G10L15/19

  Grammatical context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word sequence rules · CPC title

• H04N7/181

  for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources · CPC title