Digital television receiver controlled by speech recognition

• US 7,908,146 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2007
• Issued: 03/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Naoki, Kaneko, Mayumi, Okamoto, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): MCFADDEN, SUSAN IRIS
• Application Number:
  US11/806,240
• Publication Number:
  US 20070282612A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,385 Days
• Field of Search: 704/275
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/225 Feedback of the input speech
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration

Abstract

A digital television received is provided. The receiver includes an information storage to store menu screen identification information about a menu screen displayed on a display section, the menu screen including an item corresponding to the command information, the identification information associated with the command information corresponding to the item displayed on the menu screen; a judgment section to determine whether or not the obtained command information falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information; a control section to perform control based on the command information when the judgment section judges that the obtained command information falls in the command information stored in the command information storage associated with the menu screen identification information.

Claims

1. A digital television receiver comprising:

a speech information obtaining section to obtain speech information;

a speech recognition section to perform speech recognition of the speech information to obtain a command;

a display section to display one or more menu screens;

a display control section to control a display on the display section;

a storage section to store identification information for identifying a presently-displayed menu screen from the one or more menu screens, each of the one or more menu screens displays a plurality of items respectively corresponding to a plurality of pieces of command information, the command information respectively corresponding to the items, and a plurality of pieces of control information respectively corresponding to the command information;

a judgment section to judge a piece of identification information corresponding to the presently-displayed menu screen selected from the stored identification information to determine whether or not the command obtained as a result of the speech recognition corresponds to any of the command information associated with the judged piece of identification information when the speech information is obtained;

a control section to perform a control based on a result of judgment by the judgment section;

a calculation section to calculate a confidence level of the result of the speech recognition; and

a remote control device to receive an instruction for determining whether or not a control based on the command information corresponding to one of the items is performed, wherein

when the judgment section judges that the command falls in any of the command information, the control section performs the control based on the command information if the confidence level is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and the control section displays an item corresponding to the command information on the display section in an identifiable manner if the confidence level is less than the predetermined value and performs the control based on the command information if the remote control device receives an instruction to perform a control based on the command information corresponding to the item displayed in an identifiable manner, and

when the judgment section judges that the command does not fall in any of the command information, the display control section displays a result of the judgment by the judgment section on the display section.

2. A digital television receiver comprising:

a speech information obtaining section to obtain speech information;

a speech recognition section to perform speech recognition of the speech information to obtain a command;

a display section to display one or more menu screens;

a storage section to store identification information for identifying a presently-displayed menu screen from the one or more menu screens, each of the one or more menu screens display a plurality of items respectively corresponding to a plurality of pieces of command information, the command information respectively corresponding to the items, and a plurality of pieces of control information respectively corresponding to the command information;

a judgment section to judge a piece of identification information corresponding to the presently-displayed menu screen from the stored identification information to determine whether or not the command obtained as a result of the speech recognition corresponds to any of the command information associated with the judged piece of identification information when the speech information is obtained;

a control section to perform a control based on a result of judgment by the judgment section; and

a remote control device to receive an instruction for determining whether or not a control based on the command information corresponding to one of the items is performed, wherein

when the judgment section judges that the command falls in any of the command information, the control section displays an item corresponding to the command information on the display section in an identifiable manner, and performs the control based on the command information if the remote control device receives an instruction to perform a control based on the command information corresponding to the item displayed in an identifiable manner.

3. The digital television receiver according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display control section, when the judgment section judges that the command does not fall in any of the command information, to display a result of the judgment by the judgment section on the display section.

4. The digital television receiver according to claim 2, further comprising:

a calculation section to calculate a confidence level of the result of the speech recognition,

wherein when the judgment section judges that the command falls in any of the command information, the control section performs the control based on the command information if the confidence level is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and the control section displays an item corresponding to the command information on the display section in an identifiable manner if the confidence level is less than the predetermined value and performs the control based on the command information if the remote control device receives an instruction to perform a control based on the command information corresponding to the item displayed in an identifiable manner.