APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE IN VEHICLE

• US 20170206059A1
• Filed: 06/10/2016
• Published: 07/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: YANG, Woo Sok
• Application Number:
  US15/179,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20170206059A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 15/32 Multiple recognisers used in sequence or in parallel; Score combination systems therefor, e.g. voting systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/02 Preprocessing operations, e.g. segment selection; Pattern representation or modelling, e.g. based on linear discriminant analysis [LDA] or principal components; Feature selection or extraction
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

A method is for controlling an apparatus included in a vehicle with a voice recognition device. The method includes receiving and recognizing a voice instruction, performing an upper level operation corresponding to the voice instruction, receiving a non-voice input for performing a lower level operation appertaining to the upper level operation, and performing the lower level operation in response to the non-voice input.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an apparatus included in a vehicle with a voice recognition device, comprising:

receiving and recognizing a voice instruction;

performing an upper level operation corresponding to the voice instruction;

receiving a non-voice input for performing a lower level operation appertaining to the upper level operation; and

performing the lower level operation in response to the non-voice input.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the non-voice input is recognized after the voice instruction is recognized until the upper level operation is complete.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the upper level operation is not finished within a predetermined time after the lower level operation is complete.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a new non-voice input for performing another lower level operation appertaining to the upper level operation within the predetermined time after the lower level operation is complete.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the upper level operation includes a main function of playing received messages while the lower level operation includes at least one of plural sub functions of replaying, rewinding, fast-forwarding, skipping, deleting and storing a message, which appertain to the main function.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

engaging with a mobile device through a local area wireless network; and

receiving at least one of the non-voice input and the voice instruction via the mobile device.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the upper level operation and the lower level operation activated by the voice instruction and the non-voice input are for running a vehicle engagement application installed in the mobile device.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing the upper level operation comprises:

determining which upper level operation corresponds with the voice instruction;

determining a factor, which is not recognized from or included in the voice instruction but necessary to perform the upper level operation, based on a predetermined set or value; and

performing the upper level operation based on the voice instruction and the factor.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the factor includes at least one of information regarding a time, a date, a place and a sender, when the upper level operation includes a function of playing received messages.

10. An apparatus for controlling an apparatus included in a vehicle with a voice recognition device, comprising:

a voice instruction receiver configured to receive and recognize a voice instruction used for controlling an electric device equipped in, or engaged with, the vehicle;

a controller configured to perform an upper level operation according to the voice instruction; and

a non-voice input receiver configured to receive a non-voice input for performing a lower level operation appertaining to the upper level operation,

wherein the controller performs the lower level operation in response to the non-voice input.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a microphone configured to deliver the voice instruction; and

at least one of a touch screen and a button configured to deliver the non-voice instruction.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the non-voice input is recognized after the voice instruction is recognized until the upper level operation is complete.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the upper level operation is not finished within a predetermined time after the lower level operation is complete.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the non-voice input receiver recognizes a new non-voice input for performing any lower level operation appertaining to the upper level operation within the predetermined time after the lower level operation is complete.

15. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the upper level operation includes a main function of playing received messages while the lower level operation includes at least one of plural sub functions of replaying, rewinding, fast-forwarding, skipping, deleting and storing a message, which appertain to the main function.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the lower level operation is based on a format to store a message, and the apparatus further comprises a data manipulation unit configured to modify the message in the format corresponding to the lower level operation.

17. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a communication unit configured to engage with the mobile device through a local area wireless network,

wherein at least one of the non-voice input and the voice instruction is delivered via the mobile device.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the upper level operation and the lower level operation activated by the voice instruction and the non-voice input are for running a vehicle engagement application installed in the mobile device.

19. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the controller is configured to:

determine which upper level operation corresponds with the voice instruction;

determine a factor, which is not recognized from or included in the voice instruction but necessary to perform the upper level operation, based on a predetermined set or value; and

perform the upper level operation based on the voice instruction and the factor.

20. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the factor includes at least one of information regarding a time, a date, a place and a sender, when the upper level operation includes playing received messages.