DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140188486A1
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HAN, Sang-jin, KIM, Jae-kwon, YOU, So-yon, PARK, Eun-hee
• Application Number:
  US14/144,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20140188486A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/16 Transforming into a non-visible representation devices or methods enabling ear patients to replace direct auditory perception by another kind of perception A61F11/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4415 using biometric characteristics of the user, e.g. by voice recognition or fingerprint scanning cryptography using biological data H04L9/3231; authentication in networks using biometric H04L63/0861

Abstract

Provided are a display apparatus and controlling method thereof. The display apparatus including: a voice receiver which collects a user'"'"'s utterance; a communicator which transmits the user'"'"'s utterance to a dialogue type server, and receives response information generated based on the user'"'"'s utterance; a storage unit which stores control information corresponding to each user'"'"'s utterance; a controller which determines whether the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is stored in the storage unit and performs operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on a result of the determination.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a voice receiver configured to collect a user'"'"'s utterance;

a communicator configured to transmit the user'"'"'s utterance to a dialogue type server, and to receive response information generated based on the user'"'"'s utterance;

a storage unit configured to store control information corresponding to each user'"'"'s utterance; and

a controller configured to determine whether the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is stored in the storage unit, and to perform operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on a result of the determination,

wherein the controller performs operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the stored control information, when the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is stored in the storage unit, and performs operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the response information received from the dialogue type server, when the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is not stored in the storage unit.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller performs operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the response information received from the dialogue type server when the operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance are not performed based on the stored control information within a predetermined time.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an outputter which outputs at least one of an image and a voice,

wherein the storage unit stores a confirmation message which is matched to at least one of the control information among control information of each user'"'"'s utterance, and

wherein the controller outputs the confirmation message through the outputter when the confirmation message is matched to the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance, and controls a function of the display apparatus based on the control information.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control information is information for adjusting the function of the display apparatus to a predetermined target value corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the controller readjusts the function of the display apparatus when an additional user'"'"'s utterance is collected after the function of the display apparatus is adjusted to the predetermined target value.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the response information is one of a response message corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance or a control command for controlling the function of the display apparatus.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the dialogue type server includes a first server which converts the collected user'"'"'s utterance into text information and a second server which generates response information corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance converted into the text information, and

wherein the controller converts the collected user'"'"'s utterance into a digital signal, transmits the digital signal to the first server, receives the text information on the user'"'"'s utterance from the first server, and transmits the text information to the second server.

8. A method of controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising:

collecting a user'"'"'s utterance;

transmitting the collected user'"'"'s utterance to a dialogue type server and receiving response information from the dialogue type server;

determining whether the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is stored in a storage unit of the display apparatus; and

performing operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on a result of the determining,

wherein the performing operations comprises performing operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the control information, when the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is stored, and performing operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the response information received from the dialogue-type server, when the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is not stored.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the response information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is received if the result of the determining is that the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is not stored.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the performing the operations comprises performing operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the response information when the operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance are not performed based on the control information within a predetermined time.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the performing the operations comprises outputting a confirmation message when the confirmation message is matched to the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance, and controlling a function of the display apparatus based on the control information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the control information is information for adjusting the function of the display apparatus to a predetermined target value corresponding to each user'"'"'s utterance.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the performing the operations comprises readjusting the function of the display apparatus based on the control information corresponding to an additional user'"'"'s utterance, when the additional user'"'"'s utterance is collected after the function of the display apparatus is adjusted to the predetermined target value.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the response information is one of a response message corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance or a control command for controlling the function of the display apparatus.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the dialogue-type server includes a first server which converts the collected user'"'"'s utterance into text information and a second server which generates response information corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance converted into the text information, and

wherein the performing the operations comprises converting the collected user'"'"'s utterance into a digital signal, transmitting the digital signal to the first server, receiving the text information on the user'"'"'s utterance from the first server, and transmitting the text information to the second server.

16. A dialogue-type system comprising:

a dialogue-type server configured to convert a user'"'"'s utterance into text information, and to generate response information corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance; and

a display apparatus configured to determine whether control information corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance is pre-stored when the user'"'"'s utterance is collected, and when the control information is pre-stored, to perform operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the pre-stored control information, and when the control information is not pre-stored, to perform the operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the response information received from the dialogue-type server.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon at least one program comprising a command for performing a method of controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising:

collecting a user'"'"'s utterance;

transmitting the collected user'"'"'s utterance to a dialogue type server and receiving response information from the dialogue type server;

determining whether the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is stored in a storage unit of the display apparatus; and

performing operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on a result of the determining.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 17, wherein the performing operations comprises performing operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the control information, when the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is stored, and performing operations corresponding to the user'"'"'s utterance based on the response information received from the dialogue-type server, when the control information corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s utterance is not stored.