CONTROLLING AUDIO VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE (AVDD) TUNING USING CHANNEL NAME

• US 20120259639A1
• Filed: 06/08/2011
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yeh, Sabrina Tai-Chen, Young, David, Friedlander, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 8,972,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4314 for fitting data in a restricted space on the screen, e.g. EPG data in a rectangular grid
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72

Abstract

A television, or other device with television tuner, can be controlled to directly tune to a specific channel name, such as a broadcaster'"'"'s station name, by using EPG metadata to provide a correlation between a channel number and channel name.

Claims

1. Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising:

processor;

video display presenting demanded images under control of the processor;

computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

responsive to detecting a trigger phrase spoken by a person, enable voice command control of the AVDD;

provide visible indication on the display that voice command control is enabled;

receive a voice command from a person;

determine if the voice command matches a channel name;

responsive to determining that the voice command matches a channel name, determine if an electronic program guide (EPG) is being presented on the display;

responsive to determining that the EPG is being presented on the display, configure the EPG to present on the display metadata associated with the channel name;

responsive to determining that no EPG is being presented on the display, determine if the channel name matching the voice command correlates to more than a single channel number;

responsive to determining that the channel name correlates to only a single channel number, tune the AVDD to the channel number correlated to the channel name; and

responsive to determining that the channel name correlates to at least first and second channel numbers, tune to a predetermined preferred one of the first and second channel numbers.

2. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein responsive to a determination that the same channel name is repeated by a person plural times, the processor causes the AVDD to tune to successive channel numbers correlated to the channel name.

3. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein responsive to a determination that the voice command does not match a channel name, the processor determines if the voice command matches the name of an input device to the AVDD, and responsive to a determination that the voice command matches an input, the processor automatically configures the AVDD to present video from the input.

4. The AVDD of claim 3, wherein the input is represented by an input source name spoken as part of the voice command.

5. The AVDD of claim 3, wherein the input is represented by an input source task spoken as part of the voice command.

6. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the first channel number is the predetermined preferred one of the first and second channel numbers by virtue of being a high definition channel.

7. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the first channel number is the predetermined preferred one of the first and second channel numbers by virtue of being the first channel number as between the first and second channel numbers on a channel list.

8. The AVDD of claim 1, wherein the channel name established by the voice command is correlated to a channel number by accessing metadata carried in a television signal.

9. Audio video display device (AVDD) comprising:

processor;

video display presenting demanded images under control of the processor;

computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

receive a voice command from a person;

determine if the voice command matches a channel name;

responsive to determining that the voice command matches a channel name, determine if the channel name correlates to at least a first channel number and a second channel number; and

responsive to determining that the channel name correlates to at least the first and second channel numbers, tune to a predetermined preferred one of the first and second channel numbers.

10. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein the processor, responsive to detecting a trigger phrase spoken by a person, enables voice command control of the AVDD.

11. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein the processor provides visible indication on the display indicating that voice command control is enabled.

12. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein the processor:

determines if an electronic program guide (EPG) is being presented on the display; and

responsive to determining that the EPG is being presented on the display, configures the EPG to present on the display metadata associated with the channel name.

13. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein responsive to a determination that the same channel name is repeated by a person plural times, the processor causes the AVDD to tune to successive channel numbers correlated to the channel name.

14. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein responsive to a determination that the voice command does not match a channel name, the processor determines if the voice command matches the name of an input device to the AVDD, and responsive to a determination that the voice command matches an input, the processor automatically configures the AVDD to present video from the input.

15. The AVDD of claim 14, wherein the input is represented by an input source name or by an input source task or by both an input source name and an input source task.

16. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein the first channel number is the predetermined preferred one of the first and second channel numbers by virtue of being a high definition channel.

17. The AVDD of claim 9, wherein the first channel number is the predetermined preferred one of the first and second channel numbers by virtue of being the first channel number as between the first and second channel numbers on a channel list.

18. Method comprising:

responsive to receiving an audible voice command, converting the voice command using speech recognition software to a computer-understandable voice command;

determining if the computer-understandable voice command matches a channel name;

responsive to determining that the computer-understandable voice command matches a channel name, determining if the channel name correlates to at least first and second channel numbers, the first channel number being predefined to he preferred over the second channel number; and

responsive to determining that the channel name correlates to at least first and second channel numbers, tuning an audio video display device (AVDD) to the first channel number.

19. The method of claim 18, comprising, responsive to determining that an electronic program guide (EPG) is being _presented on the AVDD when the voice command is received and that the computer-understandable voice command matches a channel name, configuring the EPG to automatically present visible metadata associated with the channel name.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein responsive to a determination that the voice command matches the name of an input device to the AVDD, the method automatically configures the AVDD to present video from the input.