DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEM

• US 20140006022A1
• Filed: 04/09/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YOON, Seung-il, KIM, Sang-hee, KIM, Jae-cheol, LEE, Sang-kwon, LEE, Cheon-seong, LEE, Hye-jeong, CHA, Tae-hwan, JUNG, Jae-wook
• Application Number:
  US13/859,031
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006022A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1815 Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234336 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures or audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• 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

Abstract

An image processing apparatus, a method of controlling an image processing apparatus, and an interactive system are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: an output unit which outputs at least one a voice and a text; a voice collecting unit which collects a user voice; a first communication unit which transmits the user voice to a first server and receives text information corresponding to the user voice from the first server; a second communication unit which transmits the received text information to a second server; and a control unit which, if response information corresponding to the text information is received from the second server, controls the output unit to output a response message responding to the user voice based on the response information.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an outputter which outputs at least one of a voice and a text;

a voice collector which collects a user voice;

a first communicator which transmits the collected user voice to a first server and receives text information corresponding to the collected user voice from the first server;

a second communicator which transmits the received text information to a second server; and

a controller which, in response to response information corresponding to the transmitted text information being received from the second server, controls the outputter to output a response message responding to the collected user voice based on the received response information.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the received response information comprises response message information to output the response message from the image processing apparatus; and

the controller generates and outputs the response message responding to the collected user voice as at least one of the voice and the text through the outputter based on the response message information.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the received response information further comprises a control command to control an operation of the image processing apparatus responding to the collected user voice.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second server determines an intention of the collected user voice based on the transmitted text information, and, if the second server determines that it is not possible to generate the response information according to the determined intention, generates the response information according to the determined intention using search information received from an external server.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the received response information comprises a control command to control an operation of the display apparatus responding to the collected user voice.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a storage which stores a predetermined response message, wherein the controller, in response to the response information being received from the second server, controls the outputter to output the predetermined response message responding to the collected user voice based on the received response information.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the received response information comprises a control signal which controls the controller to output, through the outputter, the predetermined response message responding to the collected user voice.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the controller, in response to the response information being received from the second server and the received response information comprising a partial text responding to the collected user voice, controls the outputter to output a combination of the partial text and the predetermined response message responding to the collected user voice.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the predetermined response message comprises at least one of a voice and a text.

10. A method for controlling an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

collecting a user voice;

transmitting the collected user voice to a first server and receiving text information corresponding to the collected user voice from the first server;

transmitting the received text information to a second server; and

in response to response information corresponding to the transmitted text information being received from the second server, outputting a response message responding to the collected user voice based on the received response information.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein:

the received response information comprises response message information to output the response message from the image processing apparatus; and

the outputting comprises generating and outputting the response message responding to the collected user voice as at least one of a voice and a text based on the response message information.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the response information further comprises a control command to control an operation of the image processing apparatus responding to the collected user voice.

13. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the second server determines an intention of the collected user voice based on the transmitted text information, and if the second server determines that it is not possible to generate the response information according to the determined intention, generates the response information according to the determined intention using search information received from an external server.

20. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 10.

14. An interactive system comprising:

an image processing apparatus which transmits a collected user voice;

a first server which in response to receiving the transmitted user voice from the image processing apparatus, transmits text information corresponding to the received user voice to the image processing apparatus; and

a second server which, in response to receiving the transmitted text information from the image processing apparatus, transmits response information corresponding to the text information to the image processing apparatus,

wherein the image processing apparatus, in response to receiving the transmitted response information from the second server, outputs a response message responding to the collected user voice based on the received response information.

15. The system as claimed in claim 14, wherein:

the received response information comprises response message information to output the response message from the image processing apparatus; and

the image processing apparatus generates and outputs the response message responding to the collected user voice as at least one of a voice and a text based on the response message information.

16. A method for controlling an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:

transmitting a collected user voice to a first server and receiving text information corresponding to the collected user voice from the first server; and

in response to response information corresponding to the transmitted user voice being received from a second server, outputting a response message responding to the collected user voice based on the received response information,

wherein the first server and the second server are a same server or are different servers.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein:

the received response information comprises response message information to output the response message from the image processing apparatus; and

the outputting comprises generating and outputting the response message responding to the collected user voice as at least one of a voice and a text based on the response message information.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the response information further comprises a control command to control an operation of the image processing apparatus responding to the collected user voice.

19. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the outputting comprises generating and outputting, in response to the response information being received from the second server, a predetermined response message, stored in the image processing apparatus, responding to the collected user voice based on the received response information.

21. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program executable by a computer for performing the method of claim 16.