Use of speech recognition for identification and classification of images in a camera-equipped mobile handset

• US 20050192808A1
• Filed: 02/26/2004
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sugiyama, Edward Masami
• Application Number:
  US10/789,286
• Publication Number:
  US 20050192808A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

A method of identifying an image file using a voice recognition system in a camera-equipped mobile communication device includes capturing an image in an image file with a digital camera in the mobile communication device; adding a voice tag to the image file; storing the image file and voice tag in the mobile communication device; activating retrieval of the image by speaking the associated voice tag; processing the voice tag input by the voice recognition mechanism of the mobile communication device; searching stored images for the input voice tag; and displaying the image associated with the input voice tag.

Claims

1. A method of identifying an image file using a voice recognition system in a camera-equipped mobile communication device, comprising:

capturing an image in an image file with a digital camera in the mobile communication device;

adding a voice tag to the image file;

storing the image file and voice tag in the mobile communication device;

activating retrieval of the image by speaking the associated voice tag;

processing the voice tag input by the voice recognition mechanism of the mobile communication device;

searching stored images for the input voice tag; and

displaying the image associated with the input voice tag.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein a single voice tag is associated with a group of related images.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the image is a video image.

4. A method of identifying an image file using a voice recognition system in a camera-equipped mobile communication device, comprising:

capturing an image in an image file with a digital camera in the mobile communication device, wherein the image is take from the group of images consisting of single images, groups of images and video;

adding a voice tag to the image file;

storing the image file and voice tag in the mobile communication device;

activating retrieval of the image by speaking the associated voice tag;

processing the voice tag input by the voice recognition mechanism of the mobile communication device;

searching stored images for the input voice tag; and

displaying the image associated with the input voice tag.

5. A method of identifying an image file using a voice recognition system in a camera-equipped mobile communication device, comprising:

capturing an image in an image file with a digital camera in the mobile communication device;

adding a voice tag to the image file; and

storing the image file and voice tag in the mobile communication device.

6. The method of claim 5 which further includes activating retrieval of the image by speaking the associated voice tag;

processing the voice tag input by the voice recognition mechanism of the mobile communication device;

searching stored images for the input voice tag; and

displaying the image associated with the input voice tag.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein a single voice tag is associated with a group of related images.

8. The method of claim 5 wherein the image is a video image.