User terminal device and control method therefor

• US 11,039,000 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2016
• Issued: 06/15/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Won, Seol-hye, Ra, Jin, Oh, Seok-min, Lee, Kang-min, Han, Chul-ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Hashem, Lisa
• Application Number:
  US15/778,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20180352067A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,722 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64

Abstract

Disclosed are a user terminal apparatus and a control method therefor. According to the present invention, a user terminal apparatus comprises: a communication unit for performing data communication with a plurality of other user terminal devices which are set as a group; a controller for determining an output order of voice messages corresponding to user voices according to a predetermined condition, when the user voices are received from a plurality of other user terminal apparatus; and an output unit for outputting voice messages in a determined output order. Accordingly, the user terminal apparatus can provide a service that enables easy group community with a plurality of other user apparatus.

Claims

1. A user terminal apparatus comprising:

a transceiver configured to perform data communication with a plurality of other user terminal apparatuses set as a group;

a processor configured to, based on a user voice being received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, determine an output order of a voice message corresponding to the user voice according to a predetermined condition; and

an output device configured to output the voice message in the determined output order,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

based on receiving messages requesting for an utterance authority from a first other user terminal apparatus and a second other user terminal apparatus among the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses respectively, set an order of utterances for the first other user terminal apparatus and a second other user terminal apparatus,

transmit a message, to the first other user terminal apparatus, requesting a voice message based on the order of the utterances, and

based on receiving the voice message from the first other user terminal apparatus, transmit a message, to the second other user terminal apparatus requesting a voice message based on the order of the utterances.

2. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on the user voice being received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, determine the output order of the voice message corresponding to the user voice based on an order of receipt of the user voice.

3. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the output order of the voice message corresponding to the user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses based on an order that an utterance request message is received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses.

4. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to analyze similarity of the voice message corresponding to the user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, and determine the output order in an order of a voice message of which similarity is different.

5. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the output device comprises a display and an audio output device, and

wherein the processor is further configured to:

control the display to display an output user interface (UI) which includes an execution icon regarding the voice message, and

in response to a selection command on an execution icon included in the output user interface (UI) being input, control at least one of the display or the audio output device to output a voice message corresponding to the selection command.

6. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the output device comprises a display which displays a channel list user interface (UI) for each group, and

wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to one of objects for each group included in the channel list user interface (UI) being selected, select a group corresponding to the selected object as a conversation partner group and transmit an order voice to a plurality of user terminal apparatuses included in the conversation partner group.

7. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display reception status information on the user voice received from other user terminal apparatuses for each group on an object of each group included in the channel list user interface (UI).

8. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the order voice comprises a voice message transmitted from the user terminal apparatus which requests a response from the plurality of user terminal apparatuses included in the conversation partner group.

9. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

transmit an order voice message to the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses,

receive an utterance request message from the first other user terminal apparatus, and

in response to the utterance authority being set for the first other user terminal apparatus, receive the voice message with regard to the order voice message from the first other user terminal apparatus.

10. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the message transmitted to the first other user terminal apparatus comprises at least one of a vibration feedback or an event notification feedback.

11. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the utterance authority permits a user of the user terminal apparatus receiving the utterance authority to transmit a voice message.

12. A controlling method of a user terminal apparatus comprising:

receiving a user voice from a plurality of other user terminal apparatuses;

determining an output order of a voice message corresponding to the user voice according to a predetermined condition; and

outputting the voice message in the determined output order,

wherein the controlling method further comprises;

based on receiving messages requesting for an utterance authority from a first other user terminal apparatus and a second other user terminal apparatus among the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses respectively, setting an order of utterances for the first other user terminal apparatus and a second other user terminal apparatus,

transmitting a message, to the first other user terminal apparatus, requesting a voice message based on the order of the utterances, and

based on receiving the voice message from the first other user terminal apparatus, transmitting a message, to the second other user terminal apparatus requesting a voice message based on the order of the utterances.

13. The controlling method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the determining comprises, based on the user voice being received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, determining the output order of the voice message corresponding to the user voice based on an order of receipt of the user voice.

14. The controlling method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the determining comprises determining the output order of the voice message corresponding to the user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses based on an order that an utterance request message is received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses.

15. The controlling method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the determining comprises analyzing similarity of the voice message corresponding to the user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, and determining the output order in an order of a voice message of which similarity is different.

16. The controlling method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the outputting comprises displaying an output user interface (UI) which includes an execution icon regarding the voice message and in response to a selection command on an execution icon included in the output user interface (UI), outputting a voice message corresponding to the selection command as at least one of a text or an audio signal.

17. The controlling method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising:

displaying a channel list user interface (UI) for each group;

in response to one of objects for each group included in the channel list user interface (UI) being selected, setting a group corresponding to the selected object as a conversation partner group; and

transmitting an order voice to a plurality of other user terminal apparatuses included in the conversation partner group.