Method for controlling external input and broadcast receiving apparatus

• US 9,288,421 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cha, Tae-hwan, Park, Sung-woo, Lee, Yui-yoon
• Primary Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US13/926,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20140019140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/654 Transmission by server directed to the client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

A method for controlling an external input and a broadcast receiving apparatus are provided. The method includes: setting a call word of an external input apparatus connected through an external input terminal; associating the call word with the external input terminal and storing the call word and the external input terminal in association with each other; in response to a voice of a user being input, recognizing the voice to determine whether the voice includes the call word; and in response to determining the voice includes the call word, enabling the external input terminal corresponding to the call word to communicate with the external input apparatus using the external input terminal corresponding to the call word.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an external input of a broadcast receiving apparatus, the method comprising:

setting a call word of an external input apparatus connected to an external input terminal of the broadcast receiving apparatus;

associating the call word with the external input terminal and storing the call word and the external input terminal in association with each other;

in response to a voice of a user being input, recognizing the voice to determine whether the voice includes the call word;

in response to determining the voice includes the call word, enabling the external input terminal corresponding to the call word to communicate with the external input apparatus using the external input terminal corresponding to the call word;

in response to determining that a new external input apparatus is connected through the external input terminal, determining whether the new external input apparatus is the same as a previous external input apparatus connected through the external input terminal; and

in response to determining that the new external input apparatus is different from the previous external input apparatus, setting a call word of the new external input apparatus.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating the call word of the new external input apparatus with the external input terminal and storing the call word of the new external input apparatus and the external input terminal in association with each other.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining whether the new external input apparatus is the same as the previous external input apparatus comprises:

in response to determining the new external input apparatus is connected through the external input terminal, displaying a user interface (UI) inquiring whether the new external input apparatus is the same as the previous external input apparatus; and

determining whether the new external input apparatus is the same as the previous external input apparatus, according to an input of the user which is input through the UI.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting of the call word comprises:

displaying a user interface (UI) which is used to set the call word of the external input apparatus connected through the external input terminal.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the UI is displayed after the broadcast receiving apparatus is initially turned on.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the recognizing the voice to determine whether the voice includes the call word comprises:

receiving the voice of the user and processing the voice as a digital signal;

transmitting the digital signal to an external server;

receiving text information corresponding to the digital signal from the external server; and

determining whether the text information includes the call word.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the voice includes a control command for controlling the external input apparatus, transmitting a control signal corresponding to the control command to the external input apparatus.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the call word is one of a call word pre-stored in the broadcast receiving apparatus and a call word input by the user.

9. A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising:

an external input terminal which is configured to connect to an external input;

a call word setter which sets a call word of an external input apparatus connected to the external input terminal;

a storage which associates the call word with the external input terminal and stores the call word and the external input terminal in association with each other;

a voice recognizer which receives a voice of a user and recognizes the voice;

a controller which determines whether the voice recognized through the voice recognizer includes the call word, and in response to determining the voice includes the call word, enables the external input terminal corresponding to the call word to communicate with the external input apparatus using the external input terminal corresponding to the call word,

wherein in response to determining that a new external input apparatus is connected through the external input terminal, the controller determines whether the new external input apparatus is the same as a previous external input apparatus connected through the external input terminal, and

wherein in response to determining that the new external input apparatus is different from the previous external input apparatus, the controller controls the call word setter to set a call word of the new external input apparatus.

10. The broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 9,

wherein in response to determining that the new external input apparatus is different from the previous external input apparatus, the controller associates the call word of the new external input apparatus with the external input terminal, and stores the call word of the new external input apparatus and the external input terminal in association with each other in the storage.

11. The broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a display,

wherein in response to determining that the new external input apparatus is connected through the external input terminal, the controller controls the display to display a user interface (UI), which inquires whether the new external input apparatus is the same as the previous external input apparatus, and determines whether the new external input apparatus is the same as the previous external input apparatus, according to an input of the user which is input through the UI.

12. The broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a display,

wherein the controller controls the call word setter to display on the display a user interface (UI) which is used to set the call word of the external input apparatus connected through the external input terminal.

13. The broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 12, wherein the UI is displayed after the broadcast receiving apparatus is initially turned on.

14. The broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 9, wherein the voice recognizer comprises:

a voice signal processor which receives the voice of the user and processes the voice as a digital signal; and

a communicator which transmits the digital signal to an external server and receives text information corresponding to the digital signal from the external server,

wherein the controller determines whether the text information received from the external server comprises the call word.

15. The broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 9, wherein if the user voice includes a control command for controlling the external input apparatus, the controller generates a control signal corresponding to the control command and transmits the control signal to the external input apparatus through the external input terminal.

16. The broadcast receiving apparatus of claim 9, wherein the call word is one of a call word pre-stored in the broadcast receiving apparatus and a call word input by the user.

17. A method for controlling an external input of a broadcast receiving apparatus, the method comprising:

associating a call word with an external input terminal and storing the call word and the external input terminal;

receiving a voice of a user;

determining whether the voice of the user includes the call word;

in response to determining the voice of the user includes the call word, communicating with an external input apparatus using the external input terminal associated with the call word;

in response to determining that a new external input apparatus is connected through the external input terminal, determining whether the new external input apparatus is the same as a previous external input apparatus connected through the external input terminal; and

in response to determining that the new external input apparatus is different from the previous external input apparatus, setting a call word of the new external input apparatus.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the associating of the call word comprises:

displaying a user interface which is used to associate the call word with the external input terminal.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the call word is one of a call word pre-stored in the broadcast receiving apparatus and a call word input by the user.