METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GAME SYSTEM BY SPEECH AND GAME SYSTEM THEREOF

• US 20100292991A1
• Filed: 07/27/2010
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: LV, Jing
• Application Number:
  US12/843,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20100292991A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/424 involving acoustic input signals, e.g. by using the results of pitch or rhythm extraction or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1081 Input via voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6072 of an input signal, e.g. pitch and rhythm extraction, voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for controlling a game system by speech and a game system thereof. The method includes collecting a speech command, storing the speech command in association with a game command; receiving a speech command from a user during a game, searching for a game command associated with the speech command, and controlling a game system using the game command found. The game system includes a speech collecting module, an associated storage module, a speech command recognizing module and a game controlling module. The present invention can implement control of a game system using speech.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a game system by speech, comprising:

collecting a speech command, storing the speech command collected in association with a game command;

receiving the speech command from a user during a game, searching for the game command associated with the speech command, and controlling a game system by the game command found.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing the speech command collected in association with the game command comprises:

storing one game command in association with one speech command, or storing one game command in association with at least two speech commands.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing the speech command collected in association with the game command comprises:

storing the speech command and the game command in different files, establishing an index table indicating a relation between the speech command and the game command based on an index of the speech command and an index of the game command in their respective files.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing the speech command collected in association with the game command comprises:

storing the speech command and the game command in a same file.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the file comprises an information header and information,

the information header stores a type and a parameter of the speech command, the information comprises contents of the speech command;

or

the information header stores a type of the game command, the information comprises contents of the game command.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the file comprises an information header and information,

the information header stores a type and a parameter of the speech command, the information comprises contents of the speech command;

or

the information header stores a type of the game command, the information comprises contents of the game command.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the collecting the speech command comprises:

collecting the speech command in a dialect or in a standard language.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

encoding the speech command in the dialect or in the standard language by Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM).

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

pre-configuring frequently-used game commands;

before receiving the speech command from the user during the game, pre-loading the frequently-used game commands and speech commands associated with the frequently-used game commands;

wherein the searching for the game command associated with the speech command comprises;

searching the pre-loaded game commands and speech commands for the game command associated with the speech command.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

searching the stored speech command and associated game command if the game command is not found in the pre-loaded game commands and speech commands.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a prompt message if no game command associated with the speech command is found or if it is determined that the game command associated with the recognized speech command is not consistent with a game logic.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein multiple game commands associated with the speech command is found, the controlling the game system by the game command found comprises:

combining the game commands found and controlling the game system by a combined result.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the combining the game commands found and controlling the game system by the combined result comprises:

determining whether the game commands found can be combined according to a game logic, transmitting prompt information if the game commands cannot be combined or if there are at least two possible combined results.

14. A game system, comprising:

a speech collecting module, an associated storage module, a speech command recognizing module and a game controlling module;

wherein

the speech collecting module is adapted to collect a speech command and transmit the collected speech command to the associated storage module;

the associated storage module is adapted to store the received speech command in association with a game command;

the speech command recognizing module is adapted to receive the speech command sent by a user during a game, search the associated storage module for the game command associated with the speech command, and transmit the game command found to the game controlling module; and

the game controlling module is adapted to control a game system by the game command received from the speech command recognizing module.

15. The game system of claim 14, further comprising:

a game starting module, wherein

the game starting module is adapted to start a game, transmit a start indication to the speech command recognizing module, and close the game when the speech collecting module is running; and

the speech command recognizing module is further adapted to receive the start indication from the game starting module.

16. The game system of claim 15, further comprising:

a pre-loading module, wherein

the associated storage module is further adapted to pre-configure frequently-used game commands;

the pre-loading module is adapted to receive the start indication from the game starting module, pre-load the frequently-used game commands and speech commands associated with the frequently-used game commands;

the speech command recognizing module is further adapted to search the pre-loading module for the game command associated with the speech command, and search the associated storage module for the game command if the game command is not found in the pre-loading module; and

the game starting module is further adapted to transmit a start indication to the pre-loading module after the game is started.

17. The game system of claim 14, further comprising:

an error handling module, wherein

the error handling module is adapted to receive an error indication and perform an error handling procedure; and

anyone of the speech collecting module and the associated storage module and the speech command recognizing module and the game controlling module is further adapted to transmit an error indication to the error handling module after an error emerges.