Electronic device and method for voice recognition upon charge transfer

• US 9,223,540 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Hyung-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Pullias, Jesse
• Application Number:
  US13/962,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20140122090A1
• Time in Patent Office: 873 Days
• Field of Search: 704/275, 704231-257
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means

Abstract

An electronic device and a method for recognizing a voice are provided. An operating method of the electronic device includes detecting, at least one of two or more first sensors disposed in a preset region, detecting an amount of charge transfer over a preset value, when detecting the amount of the charge transfer over the preset value, detecting, at one of two or more second sensors disposed in a preset distance from two or more microphones, an object in a preset distance; and collecting, at one of the two or more microphones, the one disposed in a preset distance from the second sensor detecting the object in the preset distance, a voice.

Claims

1. An operating method of an electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting, by at least one first sensor a charge transfer;

when an amount of the charge transfer is greater than a preset value, detecting, by one of two or more second sensors disposed at a position adjacent to each of two or more microphones, an object in a preset distance from the electronic device; and

receiving a voice by a microphone disposed in a position adjacent to the one of the two or more second sensors detecting the object.

2. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the at least one first sensor operates while the electronic device is in a deep-sleep mode.

3. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the at least one first sensor is a grip sensor.

4. The operating method of claim 1, wherein each of the two or more second sensors is a proximity sensor.

5. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the at least one first sensor detects the amount of the charge transfer greater than the preset value, operating the two or more second sensors.

6. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the one of the two or more second sensors detects the object, operating the two or more microphones.

7. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the microphone disposed in the position adjacent to the one of the two or more second sensors detecting the object, primarily receives the voice.

8. The operating method of claim 1, wherein at least one microphone, other than the microphone disposed in the position adjacent to the one of the two or more second sensors detecting the object of the two or more microphones, primarily cancels noise.

9. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the detected voice;

recognizing a command corresponding to the detected voice; and

performing an operation according to the recognized command.

10. The operating method of claim 9, further comprising:

when a voice reception condition is satisfied in the electronic device, automatically running an application for the voice recognition in a background of the electronic device; and

executing the command corresponding to the received voice.

11. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether at least one second sensor other than the one of the two or more second sensors disposed in the position adjacent to the microphone receiving the voice, detects an object in the preset distance from the electronic device.

12. The operating method of claim 11, further comprising:

when the at least one second sensor other than the one of two or more second sensors disposed in the position adjacent to the microphone receiving the voice detects the object, receiving the voice at the microphone disposed in the position adjacent to the one of the two or more second sensors detecting the object.

13. An electronic device comprising:

at least one first sensor configured to detect an amount of charge transfer greater than a preset value;

two or more second sensors disposed at positions adjacent to each of two or more microphones and configured to detect an object in a preset distance from the electronic device when the at least one first sensor detects the amount of the charge transfer greater than the preset value; and

two or more microphones, wherein a microphone of the two or more microphones disposed in a position adjacent to a second sensor of the two or more second sensors detecting the object, is configured to receive a voice.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the at least one first sensor is configured to operate while the electronic device is in a deep-sleep mode.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the at least one first sensor is a grip sensor.

16. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein each of the two or more second sensors is a proximity sensor.

17. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the two or more second sensors are configured to operate when the at least one first sensor detects the amount of the charge transfer greater than the preset value.

18. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the two or more microphones are configured to operate when the one of the two or more second sensors detects the object.

19. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the microphone disposed in the position adjacent to the second sensor detecting the object, is configured to primarily receive the voice.

20. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein at least one microphone other than the microphone disposed in the position adjacent to the second sensor detecting the object of the two or more microphones, is configured to primarily cancel noise.

21. The electronic device of claim 13, further comprising:

a processor unit configured to;

analyze the detected voice,

recognize a command corresponding to the detected voice, and

perform an operation according to the recognized command.

22. The electronic device of claim 21, wherein the processor unit is configured to:

when a voice reception condition is satisfied in the electronic device, automatically run an application for the voice recognition in a background of the electronic device; and

execute the command corresponding to the received voice.

23. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein at least one second sensor, other than the second sensor disposed in the position adjacent to the microphone receiving the voice is configured to determine whether an object is detected in the preset distance from the electronic device.