IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20140122088A1
• Filed: 01/08/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Joo-yeong, BAN, Seok-ho, PARK, Sang-shin
• Application Number:
  US13/736,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20140122088A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/48 specially adapted for particular use
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4852 for modifying audio parameters, e.g. switching between mono and stereo

Abstract

An image processing apparatus is provided, the image processing apparatus includes: a voice input which receives a user'"'"'s speech; a voice processor which performs a preset operation according to a voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech; and a controller which adjusts the preset operation of the voice command if the user'"'"'s speech input into the voice input does not match the preset operation determined by the voice processor, and performs the adjusted preset operation that matches the user'"'"'s speech according to the adjustment result.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a voice input configured to receive a user'"'"'s speech;

a voice processor configured to perform a preset operation according to a voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech;

a communication component configured to connect to a communication server; and

a controller configured to provide a user interface (UI) image provided for allowing the user to adjust the preset operation with respect to the user'"'"'s speech in response to manipulation of a user input by the user when the preset operation corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech input into the voice input does not reflect the user'"'"'s intent, and perform the operation adjusted through the UI image in response to input of the user'"'"'s speech,

wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech is a short sentence or a conversational sentence, and is configured to control the voice command to be processed by one of the voice processor and the communication server according to the determination.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller performs a second operation upon receiving an input of the user'"'"'s speech if the preset operation designated for a voice command of a predetermined speech is adjusted from a first operation to a second operation through the UI image.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the UI image instructs a user to speak, and the controller selects one operation of a plurality of preset operations as the second operation corresponding to the voice command of the user'"'"'s speech if the user'"'"'s speech is input to the voice input according to the instructions to speak.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the UI image instructs a user to manipulate a plurality of input buttons installed in a user input, and the controller selects an operation designated in advance for the input button manipulated according to the instructions to manipulate the plurality of input buttons installed in the user input, as the second operation out of the plurality of preset operations.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the UI image comprises a list of a plurality of preset operations, and the controller selects an operation selected from the list of the plurality of preset operations, as the second operation.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the UI image is provided to set a macro instruction for sequentially executing a plurality of operations corresponding to a plurality of speeches by inputting a single speech of the user.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller executes the macro instruction if the user'"'"'s single speech, corresponding to a first operation from among the plurality of preset operations included in the macro instruction, is input into the voice input.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication component communicates with a speech-to-text (STT) server which converts the user'"'"'s speech into a voice command including text, and the controller transmits a voice signal of the user'"'"'s speech to the STT server if the user'"'"'s speech is input into the voice input, and receives the voice command from the STT server corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls the voice command to be processed by the voice processor if it is determined that the voice command is the short sentence, and controls the voice command to be processed by the communication server if it is determined that the voice command is the conversational sentence.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image processor which processes an image signal to display an image based on the processed image signal; and

a display which displays an image thereon based on the image signal processed by the image processor.

8. (canceled)

12. A control method of an image processing apparatus comprising:

receiving a user'"'"'s speech;

performing a preset operation according to a voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech;

providing a user interface (UI) image provided for allowing the user to adjust the preset operation with respect to the user'"'"'s speech in response to manipulation of a user input by the user when the preset operation corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech does not reflect the user'"'"'s intent;

and

performing the operation adjusted through the UI image in response to input of the user'"'"'s speech when the user'"'"'s speech is input thereafter,

wherein the performing a preset operation and the performing the operation adjusted through the UI image respectively comprises;

determining whether the voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech is a short sentence or a conversational sentence; and

controlling the voice command to be processed by one of the image processing apparatus and an server according to the determination.

13. The control method according to claim 12, wherein the providing the UI image comprises if the preset operation designated for a voice command of a predetermined speech is adjusted from a first operation to a second operation through the UI image, setting the image processing apparatus to perform the second operation upon receiving the user'"'"'s speech.

14. The control method according to claim 13, wherein the UI image instructs a user to speak, and the providing the UI image comprises selecting one operation of the plurality of preset operations as the second operation corresponding to the voice command of the user'"'"'s speech through the UI image if the user'"'"'s speech is input according to the instructions to speak.

15. The control method according to claim 14, wherein the UI image instructs a user to manipulate a plurality of input buttons installed in a user input of the image processing apparatus, and the providing the UI image comprises selecting an operation designated in advance for the input button manipulated according to the instructions to manipulate the plurality of input buttons installed in the user input, as the second operation.

16. The control method according to claim 14, wherein the UI image comprises a list of a plurality of preset operations,

and the providing the UI image comprises selecting an operation from the list of the plurality of preset operations, as the second operation.

17. The control method according to claim 12, wherein the UI image is provided to set a macro instruction for sequentially executing a plurality of operations corresponding to a plurality of speeches by inputting a user'"'"'s single speech.

18. The control method according to claim 17, further comprising executing the macro instruction if the user'"'"'s single speech corresponding to a first operation from among the plurality of preset operations included in the macro instruction, is input into the voice input.

20. The control method according to claim 12, wherein the inputting the user'"'"'s speech comprises transmitting a voice signal of the user'"'"'s speech to a speech-to-text (STT) server, and

wherein the image processing apparatus communicates with the STT server which converts the user'"'"'s speech into the voice command including text, and receives the voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech from the STT server.

21. The control method according to claim 12, controlling the voice command to be processed by the image processing apparatus if it is determined that the voice command is the short sentence;

and

controlling the voice command to be processed by the server if it is determined that the voice command is the conversational sentence.

19. (canceled)

22. An image processing system comprising:

an image processing apparatus which processes an image signal to display an image based on the processed image signal;

a server which communicates with the image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus comprises;

a voice input which receives a user'"'"'s speech;

a voice processor which performs a preset operation according to a voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech;

a communication component configured to connect to the server; and

a controller configured to provide a user interface (UI) image provided for allowing the user to adjust the preset operation with respect to the user'"'"'s speech in response to manipulation of a user input by the user when the preset operation corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech input into the voice input does not reflect the user'"'"'s intent, and performs the operation adjusted through the UI image in response to input of the user'"'"'s speech,

wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the voice command corresponding to the user'"'"'s speech is a short sentence or a conversational sentence, and is configured to control the voice command to be processed by one of the voice processor and the server according to the determination.

23-26. -26. (canceled)