Method and apparatus for connecting service between user devices using voice

• US 10,475,464 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2017
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sehwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Lerner, Martin
• Application Number:
  US15/797,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20180047406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 743 Days
• Field of Search: 704246, 704270, 7042701, 704273, 704275, 709237, 726 4
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/00 Speech or voice signal processing techniques to produce another audible or non-audible signal, e.g. visual or tactile, in order to modify its quality or its intelligibility G10L19/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/65 Environment-dependent, e.g. using captured environmental data

Abstract

A method of connecting a service between a device and at least one other device is provided. The method includes recording, by the device, a user voice input in a state where a voice command button has been input, outputting first information based on the recorded user voice when an input of the voice command button is cancelled, receiving, by the device, second information corresponding to the first information, recognizing a service type according to the first information and the second information, connecting the device to a subject device in an operation mode of the device determined according to the recognized service type, and performing a service with the connected subject device.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory configured to store at least one instruction; and

a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to control the device to;

receive a voice input,

transmit first information to a server based on the received voice input, wherein the first information includes time information on which the voice input was received and recording data according to the voice input,

receive, from the server, second information corresponding to the first information, wherein the second information includes information of an operation mode and information of a service,

establish a connection with an external device according to the information of the service and the information of the operation mode, and

perform the service with the external device.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first information further includes at least one of service information and device information of the external device.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the operation mode includes a master mode and a slave mode.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises an authentication key having a unique string generated using a voice waveform of the received voice input.

5. A method comprising:

receiving a voice input;

transmitting first information to a server based on the received voice input, wherein the first information includes time information on which the voice input was received and recording data according to the voice input;

receiving, from the server, second information corresponding to the first information, wherein the second information includes information of an operation mode and information of a service;

establishing a connection with an external device according to the information of the service and the information of the operation mode; and

performing the service with the external device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first information further includes at least one of service information and device information of the external device.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the operation mode includes a master mode and a slave mode.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the first information comprises an authentication key having a unique string generated using a voice waveform of the received voice input.