MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING TEXT THEREOF

• US 20090299730A1
• Filed: 04/17/2009
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: YOUN, Jong-Keun, JOH, Jae-Min, KWAK, Jae-Do
• Granted Patent: US 8,355,914 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue

Abstract

A method for selecting text created in a mobile terminal by word and correcting it or changing it to another word, and a mobile terminal implementing the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit to display one or more words of text, and to display tags for each of the one or more words; an input unit to select at least one of the tagged one or more words as selected one word; and a controller to display candidate words having a similar pronunciation to that of the word selected via the input unit, select one of the candidate words as selected one candidate word, and change the selected one word from the text to the selected one candidate word.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit configured to display one or more words of text and to display tags for each of the one or more words;

an input unit configured to select at least one of the tagged one or more words as a selected one word; and

a controller configured to control display of candidate words having a similar pronunciation to that of the selected one word that is selected via the input unit, select one of the candidate words, and change the selected one word to the selected one candidate word.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller converts a voice inputted by a user into the text, and tags the text by discriminating the text by the each of the one or more words.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller emphatically displays the selected one candidate word over other words in the text.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller tags a lower or upper end of the each of the one or more words, or adjusts a transparency of information to be tagged and displays the information to overlap with the each of the one or more words.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller displays the candidate words at one region of a screen of the display unit, and displays the candidate words in an order starting from one having a highest voice recognition rate.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the selected one word selected from the text is completely changed to the selected one candidate word, the controller emphatically displays the selected one candidate word over other words in the text that are not selected or changed.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when a voice instruction for instructing a correction of the text, the selected one word to be corrected in the text, and a new word for correcting the selected one word are successively inputted by the user, the controller immediately changes the selected one word to be corrected to the new word, and displays the new word.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the input unit receives an instruction for selecting the selected one word and/or the selected one candidate word according to at least one method of a key previously set by the user, a touch, an access a finger gesture, a pressure applied to a particular portion, a posture (tilt direction) and a voice.

9. A method for correcting text of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

converting a voice message received from a user into text;

tagging the converted text by each of one or more words of the text;

selecting at least one of the one or more words from the text as a selected one word;

displaying candidate words having a similar pronunciation to that of the selected one word; and

when one of the candidate words is selected as a selected candidate word, changing the selected one word from the text into the selected candidate word.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the selected one word from the text is selected by using information tagging the each of the one or more words.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the tagging is displayed automatically when the voice message is converted into the text or whenever a pre-set particular instruction is inputted by the user.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the tagging is displayed for the text displayed on one screen, displayed by each sentence of the text displayed on one screen, and displayed as number information.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the selected one word selected or changed in the text is changed in at least its color, brightness or thickness, or is blinked or underlined in its display so as to be emphatically displayed over other words in the text that are not selected or changed.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein when a voice information with respect to a voice instruction for instructing correction of the text, the selected one word to be corrected in the text, and a new word for correcting the selected one word are successively inputted by the user, the selected one word to be corrected in the text is immediately changed to the new word, and the new word is displayed.

15. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a plurality of words of text, wherein each of the plurality of the words is individually tagged for identification;

an input unit configured to receive input from a user; and

a controller to replace a selected one of the plurality of words of the text based on the input from the user via the input unit, by using one of candidate words having a similar pronunciation to that of the selected one word.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display a plurality of the candidate words.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the selected one words is correctly spelled.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the identification for each of the plurality of the words is a number.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the selected one word is emphasized with respect to other words of the text that are not selected.