Mobile terminal and control method thereof

• US 10,600,421 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2015
• Issued: 03/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yang, Do-Jun, Kim, Dong-Seok, Park, Se-Hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharma, Neeraj
• Application Number:
  US14/716,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20150340041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,771 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a voice receiving module configured to receive the voice of a user through a first application and to generate first voice data for the voice received through the first application, a control module configured to transmit the first voice data and user information corresponding to the first voice data to a service server and to request the service server to register the first voice data and the user information, and a communication module configured to transmit, to the service server, a request for the user information corresponding to the voice of the user received through a second application when the voice of the user is received through the second application.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal that provides information on a user based on a voice identification, the mobile terminal comprising:

a microphone;

a display;

communication circuitry; and

a processor configured to;

control the microphone to receive a first voice of a first user through a first application, corresponding to a call application, for acquiring the first voice and generate a first voice data for the first voice received through the first application during a first time period,

obtain a first position data and a first time data at a time point at which the first voice of the first user has been received through the first application,

control the communication circuitry to transmit, the first voice data, first user information of the first user corresponding to the first voice data, the first position data and the first time data to a service server, and to request the service server to register the first voice data and the first user information,

control the microphone to receive, in an offline environment, a voice data comprising a second voice data corresponding to a second user during a second time period through a second application different from the first application,

obtain a second position data and a second time data at a time point at which the second voice of the second user has been received through the second application,

control the communication circuitry to transmit, using the second application the second voice data, the second position data and the second time data to the service server for requesting second user information corresponding to the second user,

control the communication circuitry to receive the second user information from the service server, when the second user information is pre-registered in the service server by another electronic device corresponding to the second user, wherein the second user information is identified based at least in part on the second voice data, the second position data and the second time data, and

control the display to display the received second user information, wherein the second user is not a user of the mobile terminal.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the microphone obtains the second voice data for the voice of the second user received through mobile terminal.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the request for the second user information includes the generated second voice data.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the communication circuitry to receive a response according to the request for the second user information from the service server when the second user information is not pre-registered in the service server.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display the response received from the service server.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, based on the transmitted first voice data, the service server generates voice identification data for the voice of the first user received through the call application.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, based on the first position data and the first time data, the service server identifies and stores a communication environment at the first time point at which the first voice of the first user has been received through the first application.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying information of a dialogue environment between the first user and the second user based at least in part on a background noise in the second voice data.

8. A method for controlling a mobile terminal that provides information on a user based on a voice identification, the method comprising:

controlling a microphone to receive a first voice of a first user through a first application, corresponding to a call application, for acquiring the first voice and generating a first voice data for the first voice received through the first application during a first time period,

obtaining a first position data and a first time data at a time point at which the first voice of the first user has been received through the first application,

controlling a communication circuitry to transmit the first voice data, first user information of the first user corresponding to the first voice data, the first position data and the first time data to a service server and requesting the service server to register the first voice data and the first user information,

controlling the microphone to receive, in an offline environment, a voice data comprising a second voice data corresponding to a second user through a second application different from the first application,

obtaining a second position data and a second time data at a time point at which the second voice of the second user has been received through the second application,

controlling the communication circuitry to transmit, using the second application, the second voice data, the second position data and the second time data to the service server for requesting second user information corresponding to the second user,

controlling the communication circuitry to receive the second user information from the service server, when the second user information is pre-registered in the service server by another electronic device corresponding to the second user, wherein the second user information is identified based at least in part on the second voice data, the second position data and the second time data, and

controlling a display to display the received second user information,

wherein the second user is not a user of the mobile terminal.

9. The method of claim 8,

wherein the second voice data based on the voice of the second user is received through the mobile terminal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the request for the second user information includes the generated second voice data.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a response according to the request for the second user information from the service server when the second user information is not pre-registered in the service server.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying the response received from the service server.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

based on the transmitted first voice data, obtaining, by the service server, voice identification data for the voice of the user received through the call application.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

based on the first position data and the first time data, identifying and storing, by the service server, a communication environment at the first time point at which the first voice of the first user has been received through the first application.

16. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying information of a dialogue environment between the first user and the second user based at least in part on a background noise in the second voice data.