Device, system, method and computer readable medium for information processing

• US 8,751,471 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2009
• Issued: 06/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nagasaki, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): GEBRESENBET, DINKU W
• Application Number:
  US12/405,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20090240673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,912 Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/088 Word spotting

Abstract

There is provided an information processing system comprising a device and a terminal. The device comprises a recording unit to record telephone communication; a voice obtaining unit to obtain voice in response to detection of disconnection from a phone line; a transmission unit to transmit recorded data; a transmission unit to transmit voice data; a reception unit to receive a keyword candidate; a display control unit to display the keyword candidate; a selection unit to select a keyword candidate; and a transmission unit to transmit the selected keyword candidate. The terminal comprises a reception unit to receive the recorded data; a keyword generation unit to generate the keyword candidate based on the voice data; a transmission unit to transmit the keyword candidate; a registration unit to register the keyword candidate as a search keyword while associating the keyword candidate with the recorded data.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

a communication device having a telephone function; and

a terminal device communicably connected to the communication device, the communication device comprising;

a recording device configured to record telephone communication conducted through the telephone function when the device is connected to a phone line;

a disconnection judging device configured to judge whether the communication device connected to the phone line is disconnected from the phone line;

a control device configured to execute a keyword display process in response to detection by the disconnection judging device that the communication device is disconnected from the phone line;

the keyword display process comprising;

prompting a user to input voice externally into the communication device;

generating voice data from the voice externally input by the user;

transmitting recorded data which is recorded by the recording device to the terminal device;

transmitting the voice data inputted in response to the disconnection of the communication device from the phone line;

receiving keyword candidate data from the terminal device; and

displaying the received keyword candidate data on a display as one or more candidate search keywords;

a selection device configured to receive input from the user to select at least one of the one or more candidate search keywords that are displayed as the keyword candidate data; and

a transmission device configured to transmit the at least one keyword candidate selected through the selection device to the terminal device, the terminal device comprising;

a first terminal side reception device configured to receive the recorded data from the communication device;

a content database configured to store the recorded data received from the communication device, the content database comprising a plurality of search keywords associated with previously received recorded data;

a keyword generation device configured to generate the keyword candidate data by extracting the one or more candidate search keywords from the plurality of search keywords in the content database based on the voice data received from the communication device;

a terminal side transmission device configured to transmit the generated keyword candidate data to the communication device;

a second terminal side reception device configured to receive the at least one keyword candidate selected by the selection device and transmitted from the communication device; and

a registration device configured to register the at least one keyword candidate received from the communication device in the content database as a search keyword for searching for the recorded data while associating the received at least one keyword candidate with the recorded data in the content database.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device comprises a predetermined database stored in the memory and storing a plurality of words, wherein the keyword generation device is configured to:

extract a word contained in the voice data from the predetermined database;

extract the one or more candidate search keywords from the content database when one or more of the plurality of search keywords in content database include the extracted word; and

adopt the one or more extracted candidate search keywords as the keyword candidate data to be transmitted to the communication device.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the keyword generation device is further configured to adopt the word extracted from the predetermined database as the keyword candidate data when none of the plurality of search keywords in the content database includes the word extracted from the predetermined database.

4. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the keyword generation device is further configured to adopt the word extracted from the predetermined database as well as the one or more extracted candidate search keywords as the keyword candidate data to be transmitted to the communication device.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the registration device is configured to register a predetermined keyword in the content database as the search keyword of for searching the recorded data when no keyword candidate is selected through the selection device.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein:

the terminal device further comprises a storage device configured such that, when no keyword candidate is selected through the selection device, the storage device stores the recorded data for which no keyword candidate is selected while distinguishing the recorded data for which no keyword candidate is selected from the recorded data to which the search keyword has been assigned;

the communication device further comprises a list display control unit configured to display a list of the recorded data for which no search keyword is registered on the display;

the selection device selects a piece of recorded data from among the displayed list; and

the registration device registers a selected keyword selected through the selection device in the content database, as the search keyword for the piece of recorded data selected through the selection device.

13. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a judging device configured to judge whether the one or more candidate search keywords is among the plurality of search keywords in content database, wherein the keyword generation device is further configured to:

generate keyword candidate data by extracting one or more candidate search keywords that include a word extracted from the voice data when the judging device judges that the word extracted from the voice data is registered in the content database; and

generate keyword candidate data by utilizing the word extracted from the voice data as the one or more candidate search keywords when the judging device judges that the word extracted from the voice data is not registered in the content database.

7. An information processing system, comprising:

a communication device having a telephone function, the communication device comprising;

a recording device configured to record telephone communication conducted through the telephone function when the communication device is connected to a phone line;

a disconnection judging device configured to judge whether the communication device connected to the phone line is disconnected from the phone line;

a control device configured to execute a keyword display process in response to detection by the disconnection judging device that the communication device is disconnected from the phone line;

the keyword display process comprising;

prompting a user to input voice externally into the communication device;

generating voice data from the voice externally input by the user;

transmitting recorded data which is recorded by the recording device;

transmitting the voice data inputted in response to the disconnection of the communication device from the phone line;

receiving keyword candidate data; and

displaying the received keyword candidate data on a display as one or more candidate search keywords;

a selection device configured to receive input from the user to select at least one of the one or more candidate search keywords that are displayed as the keyword candidate data; and

a transmission device configured to transmit the at least one keyword candidates selected through the selection device,

a first target side reception device configured to receive the recorded data from the communication device;

a content database configured to store the recorded data received from the communication device, the content database comprising a plurality of search keywords associated with previously received recorded data;

a keyword generation device configured to generate the keyword candidate data by extracting the one or more candidate search keywords from the plurality of search keywords in the content database based on the voice data received from the communication device;

a target side transmission unit configured to transmit the generated keyword candidate data to the communication device;

a second target side reception device configured to receive the at least one keyword candidate selected by the selection device and transmitted from communication device; and

a registration device configured to register the at least one keyword candidate received from the communication device in the content database as a search keyword for searching for the recorded data while associating the received at least one keyword candidate with the recorded data in the content database.

8. The information processing system according to claim 7, further comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein:

the target side reception device and the registration device are provided in the first terminal; and

the keyword generation device and the target side transmission device are provided in the second terminal.

9. The information processing system according to claim 7, further comprising a terminal communicably connected to the communication device, wherein:

the target side reception device and the registration device are provided in the terminal; and

the keyword generation device and the target side transmission device are provided in the communication device.

10. An information processing device having a telephone function, comprising:

a recording device configured to record telephone communication conducted through the telephone function when the information processing device is connected to a phone line;

a disconnection judging device configured to judge whether the information processing device connected to the phone line is disconnected from the phone line;

a control device configured to execute a keyword display process in response to detection by the disconnection judging device that the information processing device is disconnected from the phone line, the keyword display process comprising;

prompting a user to input voice externally into the information processing device;

generating voice data from the voice externally input by the user;

receiving keyword candidate data that was generated by extracting, based on the voice data, one or more candidate search keywords from a plurality of search keywords that are associated with previously received recorded data; and

displaying the one or more candidate search keywords as the keyword candidate data;

a selection device configured to receive input from the user to select at least one of the one or more candidate keywords that are displayed as the keyword candidate data; and

a registration device configured to register the at least one keyword candidate selected through the selection device in a content database stored in a memory as a search keyword for searching for the recorded data while associating the at least one keyword candidate with the recorded data in the content database.

11. A method to be implemented on an information processing device having a telephone function, comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of search keywords in a content database, the plurality of keywords being associated with previously recorded data;

recording telephone communication conducted through the telephone function as currently recorded data when the information processing device is connected to a phone line;

judging whether the information processing device connected to the phone line is disconnected from the phone line;

prompting a user to input voice externally into the information processing device when it is judged that the information processing device is disconnected from the phone line;

receiving voice externally into the information processing device;

generating voice data from the voice received externally from the user;

generating keyword candidate data by extracting one or more candidate search keywords from the plurality of search keywords in the content database based on the voice data;

displaying the one or more candidate search keywords as the keyword candidate data;

receiving input from the user to select at least one of the one or more candidate search keywords that are displayed as the keyword candidate data; and

registering the selected at least one keyword candidate in the content database as a search keyword for searching for the currently recorded data while associating the at least one keyword candidate with the currently recorded data in the content database.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable instruction stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor of an information processing device having a telephone function, configures the processor to perform the steps of:

storing a plurality of search keywords in a content database, the plurality of keywords being associated with previously recorded data;

recording telephone communication conducted through the telephone function as currently recorded data when the information processing device is connected to a phone line;

judging whether the information processing device connected to the phone line is disconnected from the phone line;

prompting a user to input voice externally into the information processing device if it is judged that the information processing device is disconnected from the phone line;

receiving voice externally into the information processing device;

generating voice data from the voice received externally from the user;

generating keyword candidate data by extracting one or more candidate search keywords from the plurality of search keywords in the content database based on the voice data;

displaying the one or more candidate search keywords as the keyword candidate data;

receiving input from the user to select the at least one of the one or more candidate search keywords that are displayed as the keyword candidate data; and

registering the selected at least one keyword candidate in the content database as a search keyword for searching for the currently recorded data while associating the at least one keyword candidate with the currently recorded data in the content database.