Method and system for assisting input of text information from voice data

• US 8,849,661 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2010
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tanioka, Hideaki, Ito, Daisuke, Ito, Hidenobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Opsasnick, Michael N
• Application Number:
  US12/780,344
• Publication Number:
  US 20110282664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,600 Days
• Field of Search: 704/235
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A method may include converting voice data into text data and tagging at least one portion of the text data with at least one tag, the at least one tag indicating that the at least one portion of the text data includes a particular type of data. The method may also include displaying the text data on a display such that the at least one portion of text data is displayed with at least one associated graphical element indicating that the at least one portion of text data is associated with the at least one tag. The at least one portion of text data may be a selectable item on the display allowing a user interfacing with the display to select the at least one portion of text data in order to apply the at least one portion of text data to an application.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

converting voice data into text data;

tagging at least one portion of the text data with at least one tag, the at least one tag indicating that the at least one portion of the text data includes a particular type of data; and

displaying the text data on a display such that;

the at least one portion of text data is displayed with at least one associated graphical element indicating that the at least one portion of text data is associated with the at least one tag; and

the at least one portion of text data is a selectable item on the display allowing a user interfacing with the display to select the at least one portion of text data in order to apply the at least one portion of text data to an application;

wherein displaying the text data further includes displaying the text data on the display such that the at least one portion of text data is a draggable item on the display allowing a user interfacing with the display to drag the at least one portion of text data to a graphical element representing the application in order to apply the at least one portion of text data to the application.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the voice data is associated with a telephonic conversation.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein tagging at least one portion of the text data includes:

referencing at least one database comprising one or more words; and

tagging the at least one portion of the text data in response to determining that the at least one portion of the text data includes at least one of the one or more words.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the particular type of data includes at least one of biographical information, geographical information, and temporal information.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one associated graphical element includes at least one of highlighting, boldface, italics, underlining, and geometric shapes.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein tagging at least one portion of the text data comprises detecting one or more patterns in the text data and tagging at least one portion of the text data based on such detected patterns.

6. A device, comprising:

a processor;

a display communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to display images recognizable to a user; and

an input assist module communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to;

convert voice data into text data;

tag at least one portion of the text data with at least one tag, the at least one tag indicating that the at least one portion of the text data includes a particular type of data; and

display the text data on the display such that;

the at least one portion of text data is displayed with at least one associated graphical element indicating that the at least one portion of text data is associated with the at least one tag; and

the at least one portion of text data is a selectable item on the display allowing a user interfacing with the display to select the at least one portion of text data in order to apply the at least one portion of text data to an application;

wherein displaying the text data further includes displaying the text data on the display such that the at least one portion of text data is a draggable item on the display allowing a user interfacing with the display to drag the at least one portion of text data to a graphical element representing the application in order to apply the at least one portion of text data to the application.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the voice data is associated with a telephonic conversation.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein the input assist module is configured to tag the at least one portion of the text data by:

referencing at least one database comprising one or more words; and

tagging the at least one portion of the text data in response to determining that the at least one portion of the text data includes at least one of the one or more words.

9. The device according to claim 6, wherein the particular type of data includes at least one of biographical information, geographical information, and temporal information.

10. The device according to claim 6, wherein the at least one associated graphical element includes at least one of highlighting, boldface, italics, underlining, and geometric shapes.

11. The device according to claim 6, wherein the device comprises one of a cellular phone, a smart phone, and a personal digital assistant.

19. The device according to claim 6, wherein the input assist module is configured to tag the at least one portion of the text data by detecting one or more patterns in the text data and tagging at least one portion of the text data based on such detected patterns.

12. A device, comprising:

a processor;

a display communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to display images recognizable to a user;

a first input assist module communicatively coupled to the processor; and

a network interface communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to couple a server to the device, the server having a second input assist module;

wherein the first input assist module and second input assist module are configured to, in the aggregate;

convert voice data into text data;

tag at least one portion of the text data with at least one tag, the at least one tag indicating that the at least one portion of the text data includes a particular type of data; and

display the text data on the display such that;

the at least one portion of text data is displayed with at least one associated graphical element indicating that the at least one portion of text data is associated with the at least one tag; and

the at least one portion of text data is a selectable item on the display allowing a user interfacing with the display to select the at least one portion of text data in order to apply the at least one portion of text data to an application;

wherein displaying the text data further includes displaying the text data on the display such that the at least one portion of text data is a draggable item on the display allowing a user interfacing with the display to drag the at least one portion of text data to a graphical element representing the application in order to apply the at least one portion of text data to the application.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the voice data is associated with a telephonic conversation.

14. The device according to claim 12, wherein the first input assist module and second input assist module are configured to tag the at least one portion of the text data by:

referencing at least one database comprising one or more words; and

tagging the at least one portion of the text data in response to determining that the at least one portion of the text data includes at least one of the one or more words.

15. The device according to claim 12, wherein the particular type of data includes at least one of biographical information, geographical information, and temporal information.

16. The device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one associated graphical element includes at least one of highlighting, boldface, italics, underlining, and geometric shapes.

17. The device according to claim 12, wherein the device comprises one of a cellular phone, a smart phone, and a personal digital assistant.

20. The device according to claim 12, wherein the first input assist module and second input assist module are configured to tag the at least one portion of the text data by detecting one or more patterns in the text data and tagging at least one portion of the text data based on such detected patterns.