Display apparatus and method of controlling a display apparatus in a voice recognition system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9880808-B2
Application number	US-201414149487-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 7, 2014
Priority date	Jan 7, 2013
Publication date	Jan 30, 2018
Grant date	Jan 30, 2018

Abstract

A display method and apparatus for controlling a voice recognition system are provided. When a user's voice for controlling the display apparatus is input, the method of controlling the display apparatus transmits the voice's user to the interactive server, while determining whether the user's voice is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, and in response to the user's voice not being a pre-stored command in the display apparatus and the control information which corresponds to the user's voice and first guide information guiding the pre-stored command capable of the same function as the user's voice are transmitted from the interactive server, the method performs the function of the display apparatus, according to the control information transmitted from the interactive server, and displays the first guide information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a user's voice to be used to control the display apparatus;
transmitting the user's voice to an interactive server while determining whether the user's voice is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus;
in response to determining that the user's voice corresponds to the pre-stored command in the display apparatus, performing a function of the display apparatus according to the pre-stored command; and
in response to determining that the user's voice is not the pre-stored command in the display apparatus, performing a function corresponding to control information received from the interactive server corresponding to the user's voice, and displaying first guide information which guides the pre-stored command capable of performing the same function as the user's voice,
wherein the first guide information is received from the interactive server, and
wherein the user's voice is transmitted to the interactive server regardless of whether the user's voice corresponds to the pre-stored command.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interactive server searches control information which corresponds to the user's voice;
determines whether there is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, while searching the control information which corresponds to the user's voice; and
in response to there being the pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, generates the first guide information which guides the pre-stored command and transmits the first guide information with the control information to the display apparatus.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to the user's voice being a pre-stored command, searching control information which corresponds to the pre-stored command; and
performing a function of the display apparatus based on the searched control information.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
when the user's voice is a pre-stored command and the user's voice is a command which controls the function of the display apparatus having a plurality of hierarchy structures, displaying second guide information which guides an interactive command capable of performing the same function as the user's voice.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interactive server comprises a first interactive server which converts the user's voice into text information; and a second interactive server which generates control information and the first guide information based on the text information.

6. A display apparatus comprising:
a voice input configured to receive a user's voice to be used to control the display apparatus;
a communicator configured to communicate with an interactive server;
a storage configured to match a command and control information in order to store the same;
a display; and
a controller configured to transmit the user's voice via the communicator to the interactive server while determining whether the user's voice input via the user input is a pre-stored command,
in response to determining that the user's voice corresponds to a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, perform a function of the display apparatus according to the pre-stored command,
in response to determining that the user's voice is not the pre-stored command in the storage, perform a function of the display apparatus corresponding to control information received from the interactive server, and
control the display to display first guide information guiding the pre-stored command capable of performing the same function as the user's voice,
wherein the first guide information is received from the interactive server, and
wherein the user's voice is transmitted to the interactive server regardless of whether the user's voice is a pre-stored command.

7. The display apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the interactive server searches control information which corresponds to the user's voice;
determines whether there is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, while searching the control information which corresponds to the user's voice; and
when there is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, generates the first guide information which guides the pre-stored command and transmits the first guide information, to the display apparatus along with the control information.

8. The display apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the controller searches control information which corresponds to the user's voice pre-stored in the storage when the user's voice is a command pre-stored in the storage, and performs a function of the display apparatus based on the searched control information.

9. The display apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the controller controls the display in order to display second guide information which guides an interactive command performing the same function as the user's voice, when the user's voice is a pre-stored command and the user's voice is a command for controlling the function of the display apparatus having a plurality of hierarchy structures.

10. The display apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the interactive server comprises a first interactive server which converts the user's voice into text information; and a second interactive server generating control information and the first guide information based on the text information, and
the controller transmits the user's voice to the first interactive server and controls the communicator to transmit the text information from the first interactive server to the second interactive server.

11. A method of controlling a voice recognition system comprising an interactive server and a display apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a user's voice by the display apparatus;
transmitting, by the display apparatus the user's voice via a communicator to the interactive server while determining whether the user's voice input via the user input is a pre-stored command;
in response to determining that the user's voice corresponds to a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, performing a function of the display apparatus according to the pre-stored command; and
in response to determining that the user's voice is not a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, performing, by the display apparatus a function based on control information received from the interactive server, and
displaying first guide information guiding a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information,
wherein the first guide information is received from the interactive server, and
wherein the user's voice is transmitted to the interactive server regardless of whether the user's voice is a pre-stored command.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
in response to the user's voice being a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, the display apparatus searches, control information which corresponds to the user's voice and performs a function of the display apparatus based on the searched control information.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
in response to the user's voice being a pre-stored command and the user's voice is a command which controls the function of the display apparatus having a plurality of hierarchy structures, the display apparatus displays second guide information which guides an interactive command which performs the same function as the user's voice

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Eun-Hee
• Han Sang-Jin
• Kim Jae-Kwon

Classifications

• G10L15/32

  Multiple recognisers used in sequence or in parallel; Score combination systems therefor, e.g. voting systems · CPC title

• G10L15/30

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

• G10L15/22

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

• G10L2015/223

  Execution procedure of a spoken command · CPC title

• H04N21/472

  End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content {(end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612)} · CPC title