BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, SERVER AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF

• US 20140123185A1
• Filed: 10/22/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: NAM, Dae-hyun, CHOI, Young-ho
• Application Number:
  US14/059,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20140123185A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/38
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• 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 21/42203 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 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38

Abstract

A broadcasting receiving apparatus is provided. The broadcasting receiving apparatus includes a storage unit which is configured to store information in which broadcasting channel information and user uttered channel names are mapped, a voice receiver which is configured to receive a user uttered voice, including a channel name, a first communicator configured to transmit the received user uttered voice to a first server, and a controller which is configured to search the user uttered channel name corresponding to text information from the storage unit when the text information corresponding to the user uttered voice is received from the first server, and control channel switching to a channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the searched user uttered channel name.

Claims

1. A broadcasting receiving apparatus comprising:

a storage unit which is configured to store information in which broadcasting channel information and user uttered channel names are mapped;

a voice receiver which is configured to receive a user uttered voice, including a channel name;

a first communicator which is configured to transmit the received user uttered voice to a first server; and

a controller which is configured to search a user uttered channel name corresponding to text information from the storage unit when the text information corresponding to the user uttered voice is received from the first server, and control channel switching to a channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the searched user uttered channel name.

2. The broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a second communicator which is configured to perform communication with a second server configured to store the information in which the broadcasting channel information and the user uttered channel names are mapped,

wherein the controller transmits the text information to the second server when the user uttered channel name corresponding to the text information is not searched from the storage unit, and receives a control signal for the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the text information from the second server.

3. The broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller determines a user utterance intention through sentence pattern analysis for the text information, and controls the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the searched user uttered channel name when it is determined that the user utterance intention is the channel switching.

4. The broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller transmits the text information to a second server when the user utterance intention is not determined through sentence pattern analysis for the text information, and receives a control signal for the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the text information from the second server when it is determined in the second server that the user utterance intention is the channel switching.

5. The broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller updates the stored broadcasting channel information with changed broadcasting channel information when the broadcasting channel information is changed based on broadcasting channel information received from outside according to a preset event.

6. The broadcasting receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user uttered channel names include candidate channel names, which are uttered by the user as a channel name corresponding to the broadcasting channel information, and the broadcasting channel information includes at least one of a broadcasting channel name and a broadcasting channel number.

7. A server which performs communication with a broadcasting receiving apparatus, the server comprising,

a communicator which is configured to perform the communication with the broadcasting receiving apparatus;

a storage unit which is configured to store information in which broadcasting channel information and user uttered channel names are mapped; and

a controller which is configured to search a user uttered channel name corresponding to text information from the storage unit when the text information corresponding to the user uttered voice including a channel name is received from the broadcasting receiving apparatus, and control transmission of a control signal for channel switching to a channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the searched user uttered channel name to the broadcasting receiving apparatus.

8. The server as claimed in claim 7, wherein the controller determines a user utterance intention through sentence pattern analysis for the text information, and controls the transmission of the control signal for the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the text information to the broadcasting apparatus when it is determined that the user utterance intention is the channel switching.

9. The server as claimed in claim 7, when the controller updates the stored information with changed broadcasting channel information when the broadcasting channel information is changed based on broadcasting channel information received from outside according to a preset event.

10. The server as claimed in claim 7, wherein the user uttered channel names include candidate channel names, which are uttered by the user as a channel name corresponding to the broadcasting channel information, and the broadcasting channel information includes at least one of a broadcasting channel name and a broadcasting channel number.

11. A control method of a broadcasting receiving apparatus, the control method comprising:

receiving a user uttered voice, including a channel name;

transmitting the received user uttered voice to a first server;

determining a user uttered channel name corresponding to text information based on pre-stored information in which broadcasting channel information and user uttered channel names are mapped, when the text information corresponding to the user uttered voice is received from the first server; and

performing channel switching to a channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the determined user uttered channel name.

12. The control method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising:

transmitting the text information to a second server which is configured to store the information in which the broadcasting channel information and the user uttered channel names are mapped, when the user uttered channel name corresponding to the text information is not determined based on the stored information; and

receiving a control signal for the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the text information from the second server.

13. The control method as claimed in claim 11, further including determining a user utterance intention through sentence pattern analysis for the text information,

wherein the performing channel switching includes performing the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the determined user uttered channel name when it is determined that the user utterance intention is the channel switching.

14. The control method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising:

transmitting the text information to a second server when the user utterance intention is not determined through sentence pattern analysis for the text information; and

receiving a control signal for the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the text information from the second server when it is determined that the user utterance intention is the channel switching.

15. The control method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising updating the stored broadcasting channel information with changed broadcasting channel information when the broadcasting channel information is changed based on broadcasting channel information received from outside according to a preset event.

16. The control method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the user uttered channel names includes candidate channel names, which are uttered by the user as a channel name corresponding to the broadcasting channel information, and the broadcasting channel information includes at least one of a broadcasting channel name and a broadcasting channel number.

17. A control method of a server which performs communication with a broadcasting receiving apparatus, the control method comprising:

receiving text information corresponding to a user uttered voice, including a channel name, from the broadcasting receiving apparatus;

determining a user uttered channel name corresponding to the text information based on pre-stored information in which broadcasting channel information and user uttered channel names are mapped; and

transmitting a control signal, for channel switching to a channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the determined user uttered channel name, to the broadcasting receiving apparatus.

18. The control method as claimed in claim 17, further comprising determining a user utterance intention through sentence pattern analysis for the text information,

wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the control signal for the channel switching to the channel corresponding to the broadcasting channel information mapped with the determined user uttered channel name when it is determined that the user utterance intention is the channel switching.

19. The control method as claimed in claim 17, further comprising updating the stored information with changed broadcasting channel information when the broadcasting channel information is changed based on broadcasting channel information received from outside according to a preset event.

20. The control method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the user uttered channel names include candidate channel names, which are uttered by the user as a channel name corresponding to the broadcasting channel information, and the broadcasting channel information includes at least one of a broadcasting channel name and a broadcasting channel number.

21. A control method of an interactive system, the control method comprising:

receiving a user voice, including a broadcasting channel name;

transmitting the received user voice to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) server;

transmitting text information corresponding to the received user voice to an interactive television;

transmitting the received text information to an interactive server;

determining a user intention corresponding to the received text information; and

searching a content server based on the determined user intention.

22. The control method as claimed in claim 21, further comprising:

transmitting a control signal based on the searched content server to the interactive television.

23. The control method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the content server is a data server configured to store contents including channel information and content information.

24. The control method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the content server is a web server which is configured to perform web searching based on the user intention corresponding to the received text information.