Device and method for sending and receiving voice call contents

• US 20060281495A1
• Filed: 06/09/2006
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Sung-Zoon
• Application Number:
  US11/450,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20060281495A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/563
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0018 Speech coding using phonetic or linguistical decoding of the source; Reconstruction using text-to-speech synthesis
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means

Abstract

A mobile communications terminal, and particularly, a device for sending and receiving voice call contents capable of sending and storing the voice call contents, and a method thereof, wherein the device for sending and receiving voice call contents comprises a first mobile communications terminal for converting voice call contents into text information and sending the converted text information; and a second mobile communications terminal for receiving the text information from the first mobile communications terminal and storing the received text information.

Claims

1. A device for sending and receiving voice call contents comprising:

a first mobile communications terminal for converting voice call contents into text information and sending the text information; and

a second mobile communications terminal for receiving the text information from the first mobile communications terminal and storing the received text information.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the first mobile communications terminal is configured to store the voice call contents as the text information.

3. A device for sending voice call contents comprising:

a keypad having a voice recognition button; and

a controller for converting voice inputted in a state that a voice recognition function is activated by entering the voice recognition button during a call into text information and sending the converted text information to another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the controller comprises:

a voice recognizing unit for extracting the text information by analyzing user'"'"'s voice in the activated state of the voice recognition function; and

a message transceiver for composing a message including the extracted text information to send the composed message to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal which is in the call state, or for receiving a message from the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal.

5. The device of claim 3, wherein the controller controls the sending of the message including the text information corresponding to the voice inputted in the activated state of the voice recognition function during the call.

6. The device of claim 3, wherein the voice recognition button provided on the keypad is allocated to one of function buttons.

7. The device of claim 3, wherein the voice recognition button is one of a side key or a soft key rather than being provided on the keypad.

8. The device of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to output a notification sound for notifying the activation of the voice recognition function.

9. The device of claim 3, further comprising a display for displaying an operational state of the voice recognition function.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the display uses icons to display the state that the voice recognition function has been activated and/or deactivated.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the display displays the voice-recognized text information on a screen.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein the display displays a voice recognition soft button at a lower end of a call screen, and accordingly the soft button is selected to activate and/or deactivate the voice recognition function.

13. The device of claim 3, wherein the controller controls an analyzing of a waveform of the inputted voice and a sending of the text information based upon the analysis to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal in a message format.

14. The device of claim 3, further comprising a memory for storing the text information based upon the voice analysis.

15. The device of claim 3, wherein the controller controls the analyzing of the voice inputted when the voice recognition function is activated during the call, wherein when the voice recognition function is deactivated, the controller controls the sending of the message including the text information corresponding to the voice inputted in the voice recognition function is activated to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal.

16. A method for sending and receiving voice call contents comprising:

changing voice inputted during a call into text information and sending the text information to another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal; and

receiving and storing the text information in the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal.

17. A method for sending and receiving voice call contents comprising:

activating a voice recognition function by operating a voice recognition button; and

converting voice inputted during a call into text information in the state that the voice recognition function has been activated to thus send the converted text information to another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

stopping the voice recognition function when a voice recognition button or a button having the same function as that is selected in the state that the voice recognition function has been activated;

sending the message including the voice-recognized text information to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal which is in the call state, after stopping the voice recognition function.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the sending to the another party'"'"'s mobile communication terminal in the call state comprises:

storing the voice-recognized text information after stopping the voice recognition function; and

composing a message including the stored text information.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the sending of the text information to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal comprises:

analyzing voice during a call; and

when text information based upon the analysis is stored and simultaneously the voice recognition function is deactivated, sending a message, which includes the text information corresponding to the voice inputted in the state that the voice recognition function has been activated, to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal.

21. The method of claim 17, further comprising displaying a voice recognition soft button at a lower end of the call screen in the step of displaying the call screen to thus activate and/or deactivate the voice recognition function by operating the voice recognition soft button.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising determining whether a soft button corresponding to a user voice recognition button has been inputted or a soft button corresponding to an another party voice recognition button has separately been inputted, and activating and/or deactivating the voice recognition function for the user voice or the another party voice according to the determination.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein the sending of the text information to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal comprises:

confirming the another party'"'"'s phone number in the call state, and sending a message including the text information corresponding to the analyzed voice to a mobile communications terminal corresponding to the another party'"'"'s phone number.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein the sending of the text information to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal comprises:

storing the text information corresponding to the voice analyzed in the state that the voice recognition function has been activated during the call; and

sending the message including the text information to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal when the voice recognition function is deactivated by entering a voice recognition deactivation button.

25. The method of claim 17, wherein the sending of the text information to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal comprises:

converting the voice into the text information in the state that the voice recognition function has been activated and then displaying the converted text information;

requesting a user'"'"'s confirmation for whether to send the converted text information; and

sending the text information to the another party'"'"'s mobile communications terminal when it is confirmed that the user desires to send the text information.