DISPLAY APPARATUS, INTERACTIVE SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RESPONSE INFORMATION

• US 20150201246A1
• Filed: 07/22/2014
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SON, Ji-hye, KIM, Do-wan, PARK, Sung-yun
• Application Number:
  US14/337,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20150201246A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/08 Speech classification or search
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2355 involving reformatting operations of additional data, e.g. HTML pages optimising the visualization of content for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/9577; tracking of instant messages H04L51/234; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/254 Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server arrangements for maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00; network services using third party service providers H04L67/53
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25808 Management of client data terminal profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/303
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8405 represented by keywords

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a display, a voice collector configured to collect a user'"'"'s voice, a communication interface configured to provide the collected voice and the filtering information of the display apparatus to the interactive server, and a controller configured to receive response information corresponding to the voice and to the filtering information from the interactive server, and to control the display to display the response information.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display configured to display contents;

a voice collector configured to collect a user'"'"'s uttered voice;

a communication interface configured to provide the collected user'"'"'s uttered voice and filtering information of the display apparatus to an interactive server; and

a controller configured to receive, from the interactive server, response information corresponding to the user'"'"'s uttered voice and to the filtering information, and to control the display to display the response information.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the voice collector is further configured to convert a signal corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s uttered voice to text information.

3. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the filtering information includes at least one of a country code, a language code, a device model name, a firmware version, a current time of a device, a headend identifier (ID), an apparatus type, a conversation ID, and channel information of the display apparatus.

4. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication interface is further configured to encrypt the user'"'"'s uttered voice and the filtering information and provide the encrypted information to the interactive server.

5. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the response information includes only information about channels watchable through the display apparatus.

6. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display is further configured to display channel information items corresponding to the response information in a list.

7. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein, in response to one of the displayed channel information items being selected from the list, the controller is further configured to control the display to display content of a channel corresponding to the selected channel information item.

8. An interactive server comprising a processor which comprises:

a communication interface configured to receive information corresponding to a user'"'"'s uttered voice and filtering information from a display apparatus;

an extractor configured to extract a search keyword from information corresponding to the received user'"'"'s uttered voice;

a searcher configured to search for channels based on pre-stored mapping information and the extracted keyword and provide a search result;

a filter configured to filter channels, provided in the search result, based on the received filtering information; and

a controller configured to control the communication interface to transmit a filtered result to the display apparatus.

9. The interactive server as claimed in claim 8, wherein information corresponding to the user'"'"'s uttered voice is text information, and

the extractor is further configured to extract entity information as the keyword, from the text information.

10. The interactive server as claimed in claim 8, wherein the filter is further configured to filter out at least one channel which is not watchable through the display apparatus, among the found channels.

11. A method comprising:

collecting a user'"'"'s uttered voice;

providing the collected user'"'"'s uttered voice and filtering information of a display apparatus to an interactive server;

receiving response information corresponding to the user'"'"'s uttered voice and to the filtering information; and

displaying the received response information on the display apparatus.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the collecting comprises converting a signal corresponding to the collected user'"'"'s uttered voice to text information.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the filtering information includes at least one of a country code, a language code, a device model name, a firmware version, a current time of a device, a headend identifier (ID), an apparatus type, a conversation ID, and channel information of the display apparatus.

14. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the providing comprises:

encrypting the user'"'"'s uttered voice and the filtering information; and

providing the encrypted information to the interactive server.

15. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the response information includes only information about the channels which are watchable through the display apparatus.

16. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the displaying comprises displaying channel information items corresponding to the response information in a list.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising:

selecting one of the displayed channel information items in the list; and

displaying content of a channel corresponding to the selected channel information item.

18. A method of an interactive server comprising a processor executing the method, which comprises:

receiving information corresponding to a user'"'"'s uttered voice and filtering information, from a display apparatus;

extracting a search keyword from information corresponding to the received user'"'"'s uttered voice;

searching for channels based on pre-stored mapping information and the extracted keyword;

filtering channels, which have been found in response to the searching, based on the received filtering information; and

transmitting a filtered result to the display apparatus.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the information corresponding to the user'"'"'s uttered voice is text information, and

the extracting comprises extracting entity information as the keyword, from the text information.

20. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the filtering comprises filtering out at least one channel which is not watchable through the display apparatus, among the found channels, by using the received filtering information.

21. An apparatus comprising:

a user'"'"'s display; and

a processor configured to receive an input of a user'"'"'s voice command and to control the display corresponding to the user'"'"'s voice command by;

controlling an interactive server to match the user'"'"'s voice command to channels providable by a content provider, and to select first channels, which are channels watchable through the user'"'"'s display, from the channels which have been matched to the user'"'"'s voice command; and

controlling the display to output channel information of the first channels.

22. The apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein the processor is further configured to control the interactive server to select the first channels as only those channels which permitted to be output through the user'"'"'s display.

23. The apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein the processor is further configured to control the interactive server to discard information of second channels of the channels which have been matched to the user'"'"'s voice command, so that the channel information of the second channels is not provided to the user'"'"'s display, and

the second channels are different from the first channels and are not watchable through the user'"'"'s display.

24. The apparatus as claimed in claim 21, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to reproduce a content of one of the first channels, in response to the one of the first channels being selected by a user'"'"'s input on the user'"'"'s display.

25. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the user'"'"'s input comprises one of a physical key input, a voice input, a remote control input, and a touch screen input.