METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR REDUCING CALL CONSUMPTION OF MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20130246051A1
• Filed: 06/14/2011
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Cai, Xiaoguang, Zhan, Ming
• Application Number:
  US13/641,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20130246051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/201
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/04 Training, enrolment or model building
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/028 switching on or off only a part of the equipment circuit blocks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for reducing call power consumption of a mobile terminal and mobile terminal are disclosed in the present invention, wherein, the method includes: in a voice call process, the mobile terminal performing voiceprint modeling on an audio signal collected by the mobile terminal itself to obtain a voiceprint model, and judging whether the obtained voiceprint model matches with a stored voiceprint model of the user; if not matching, giving up performing wireless transmission on the collected audio signal or giving up performing baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the collected audio signal, and if matching, performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the audio signal. With the present invention, voice call power consumption of the mobile terminal is reduced, battery usage time of the mobile terminal is extended, and user experience is enhanced.

Claims

1. A method for reducing call power consumption of a mobile terminal, comprising:

in a voice call process, the mobile terminal performing voiceprint modeling on an audio signal collected by the mobile terminal itself to obtain a voiceprint model, and judging whether the obtained voiceprint model matches with a stored voiceprint model of a user; and

if not matching, giving up performing wireless transmission on the collected audio signal or giving up performing baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the collected audio signal, and if matching, performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the audio signal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

an establishment way of the stored voiceprint model of the user is any one or two of the following ways;

before the voice call starts, recording a voice segment of a user, and establishing and storing the voiceprint model of the user according to the voice segment;

when the voice call starts, and after a voiceprint model establishment indication sent by the user is received, establishing and storing the voiceprint model of the user.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

when there are multiple stored voiceprint models of users, if the mobile terminal judges that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal does not match with any one of the multiple voiceprint models of users, the mobile terminal gives up performing the wireless transmission on the collected audio signal or gives up performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the collected audio signal, and if the mobile terminal judges that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal matches with at least one of the multiple voiceprint models of users, the mobile terminal performs the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the audio signal.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the stored voiceprint model of the user comprises;

a voiceprint model of a common user and a voiceprint model of a temporary user;

the method further comprises;

storing the voiceprint model of the common user and the voiceprint model of the temporary user in a non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal;

or, storing the voiceprint model of the common user in the non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal, and storing the voiceprint model of the temporary user in a volatile memory of the mobile terminal.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the step of the mobile terminal performing voiceprint modeling on an audio signal collected by the mobile terminal to obtain a voiceprint model, and judging whether the obtained voiceprint model matches with a stored voiceprint model of a user comprises;

when the voice call starts, after receiving a voiceprint model establishment indication sent by the user, the mobile terminal firstly establishing and storing the voiceprint model of the user according to the collected audio signal, and then performing the voiceprint modeling on an audio signal collected in a subsequent voice call process, and judging whether the obtained voiceprint model matches with any of all the stored voiceprint models of users;

in the step of giving up performing the wireless transmission on the collected audio signal or giving up performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the collected audio signal, performing the wireless transmission on the audio signal collected in the subsequent voice call process is given up or performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the audio signal collected in the subsequent voice call process is given up.

11. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

when there are multiple stored voiceprint models of users, if the mobile terminal judges that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal does not match with any one of the multiple voiceprint models of users, the mobile terminal gives up performing the wireless transmission on the collected audio signal or gives up performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the collected audio signal, and if the mobile terminal judges that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal matches with at least one of the multiple voiceprint models of users, the mobile terminal performs the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the audio signal.

12. The method according to claim 2, wherein:

the stored voiceprint model of the user comprises;

a voiceprint model of a common user and a voiceprint model of a temporary user;

the method further comprises;

storing the voiceprint model of the common user and the voiceprint model of the temporary user in a non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal;

or, storing the voiceprint model of the common user in the non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal, and storing the voiceprint model of the temporary user in a volatile memory of the mobile terminal.

6. A mobile terminal for reducing call power consumption, comprising:

a memory module and an antenna module, and further comprising;

a baseband and radio frequency processing module, wherein, the baseband and radio frequency processing module comprises a voiceprint processing submodule and an audio signal control processing submodule;

the memory module is configured to;

store a voiceprint model of a user;

the voiceprint processing submodule is configured to;

in a voice call process, perform voiceprint modeling on an audio signal collected by the mobile terminal to obtain a voiceprint model, judge whether the obtained voiceprint model matches with a stored voiceprint model of the user, and send a judgment result to the audio signal control processing submodule; and

the audio signal control processing submodule is configured to;

when the judgment result is not matching, give up performing wireless transmission on the collected audio signal or give up performing baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the collected audio signal; and

when the judgment result is matching, perform the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the audio signal.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein:

the voiceprint processing submodule is further configured to establish the stored voiceprint model of the user in any one or two of the following ways;

before a voice call of the mobile terminal starts, according to a voice segment of a user recorded by the mobile terminal, establishing the voiceprint model of the user and storing in a memory of the mobile terminal;

after the voice call of the mobile terminal starts, and when a voiceprint model establishment indication sent by the user is received, according to the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal, establishing the voiceprint model of the user and storing in the memory of the mobile terminal.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein:

the voiceprint processing submodule is further configured to;

when there are multiple stored voiceprint models of users, when judging that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal does not match with any one of the multiple voiceprint models of users, determine that the obtained voiceprint model does not match with the pre-stored voiceprint model of the user, and when judging that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal matches with at least one of the multiple voiceprint models of the users, determine that the obtained voiceprint model matches with the pre-stored voiceprint model of the user.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein:

the stored voiceprint model of the user specifically comprises a voiceprint model of a common user and a voiceprint model of a temporary user, and the memory of the mobile terminal comprises a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory;

the voiceprint processing submodule is further configured to;

store the voiceprint model of the common user and the voiceprint model of the temporary user in the non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal;

or, store the voiceprint model of the common user in the non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal, and store the voiceprint model of the temporary user in the volatile memory of the mobile terminal.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein:

the voiceprint processing submodule is configured to perform the voiceprint modeling on the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal to obtain the voiceprint model during the voice call process in the following way;

when the voice call starts, and after a voiceprint model establishment indication sent by the user is received, firstly establishing and storing the voiceprint model of the user according to the collected audio signal, and then performing the voiceprint modeling on an audio signal collected in a subsequent voice call process to obtain the voiceprint model;

the audio signal control processing submodule is configured to give up performing the wireless transmission on the collected audio signal or give up performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the collected audio signal in the following way;

giving up performing the wireless transmission on the audio signal collected in the subsequent voice call process or giving up performing the baseband and radio frequency processing and wireless transmission on the audio signal collected in the subsequent voice call process.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein:

the voiceprint processing submodule is further configured to;

when there are multiple stored voiceprint models of users, when judging that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal does not match with any one of the multiple voiceprint models of users, determine that the obtained voiceprint model does not match with the pre-stored voiceprint model of the user, and when judging that the audio signal collected by the mobile terminal matches with at least one of the multiple voiceprint models of the users, determine that the obtained voiceprint model matches with the pre-stored voiceprint model of the user.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein:

the stored voiceprint model of the user specifically comprises a voiceprint model of a common user and a voiceprint model of a temporary user, and the memory of the mobile terminal comprises a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory;

the voiceprint processing submodule is further configured to;

store the voiceprint model of the common user and the voiceprint model of the temporary user in the non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal;

or, store the voiceprint model of the common user in the non-volatile memory of the mobile terminal, and store the voiceprint model of the temporary user in the volatile memory of the mobile terminal.