Electronic equipment

• US 20070282612A1
• Filed: 05/30/2007
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Okamoto, Kenji, Yamamoto, Naoki, Kaneko, Mayumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,908,146 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/225 Feedback of the input speech
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

Disclosed is electronic equipment including; an information storage to store menu screen identification information about a menu screen displayed on a display section, the menu screen including an item corresponding to the command information, the identification information associated with the command information corresponding to the item displayed on the menu screen; a judgment section to determine whether or not the obtained command information falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information; a control section to performs control based on the command information when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information.

Claims

1. Electronic equipment which performs speech recognition of externally input speech information and is controlled by command information obtained as a result of the speech recognition, comprising;

an information storage to store menu screen identification information about a menu screen displayed on a display section, the menu screen including an item corresponding to the command information, the identification information associated with the command information corresponding to the item displayed on the menu screen;

a judgment section to judge the menu screen identification information of the menu screen displayed on the display section, so as to determine whether or not the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition of the input speech information falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information;

an instruction section to accept an instruction of an execution or cancel of control based on the command information corresponding to one item of the menu screen displayed on the display section;

a calculation section to calculate a speech recognition certainty which is a success rate of the speech recognition of the externally input speech information;

a control section which operates when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information, wherein;

when the speech recognition certainty of the command information calculated by the calculation section is at a predetermined value or more, the control section performs control based on the command information; and

when the speech recognition certainty is less than the predetermined value, the control section displays an item corresponding to the command information of the menu screen displayed on the display section in an identifiable manner and performs control based on the command information when execution of the control based on the command information corresponding to the item displayed in the identifiable manner is instructed on the instruction section; and

a display control section, when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition does not fall in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information, to display a result of the judgment by the judgment section on the display section.

2. Electronic equipment which performs speech recognition of externally input speech information and is controlled by command information obtained as a result of the speech recognition, comprising;

an information storage to store menu screen identification information about a menu screen displayed on a display section, the menu screen including an item corresponding to the command information, the identification information associated with the command information corresponding to the item displayed on the menu screen;

a judgment section to judge the menu screen identification information of the menu screen displayed on the display section, so as to determine whether or not the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition of the input speech information falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information;

a control section to performs control based on the command information when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information.

3. The electronic equipment according to claim 2, further comprising:

an instruction section to accept an instruction of an execution or cancel of control based on the command information corresponding to one item of the menu screen displayed on the display section,

wherein, when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information, the control section displays an item corresponding to the command information of the menu screen displayed on the display section in an identifiable manner, and when execution of control based on the command information corresponding to the item displayed in the identifiable manner is instructed on the instruction section, the control section performs the control based on the command information.

4. The electronic equipment according to claim 3, further comprising:

a calculation section to calculate a speech recognition certainty which is a success rate of the speech recognition of the externally input speech information,

wherein the control section operates when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information;

when the speech recognition certainty of the command information calculated by the calculation section is at a predetermined value or more, the control section performs the control based on the command information; and

when the speech recognition certainty is less than the predetermined value, the control section displays the item corresponding to the command information of the menu screen displayed on the display section in the identifiable manner and performs control based on the command information when execution of the control based on the command information corresponding to the item displayed in the identifiable manner is instructed on the instruction section.

5. The electronic equipment according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display control section, when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information as a result of the speech recognition does not fall in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information, to display a result of the judgment by the judgment section on the display section.