APPLICATION STARTING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120150546A1
• Filed: 08/25/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LI, YONG, TAO, JUN-WEI, WANG, XING-ZHEN, CHENG, CHENG-CHUNG
• Application Number:
  US13/217,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

A computing device and method starts applications via voice commands. The computing device records a sound input by a microphone of the computing device and sends the recorded sound input to a sound sensor of the computing device. Furthermore, the computing device reads a voice command by an embedded controller of the computing device from the sound sensor, in response to a determination that the recorded sound input matches a predetermined verbal statement of the voice command. The computing device notifies an operating system of the computing device to start the application corresponding to the voice command.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a microphone;

a sound sensor;

an embedded controller;

a storage system;

at least one processor; and

one or more programs stored in the storage system and being executable by the at least one processor, the one or more programs comprising;

a setting module operable to set a voice command for the sound sensor, wherein the voice command is operable to start an application of the computing device;

a recording module operable to record a sound input by the microphone and send the recorded sound input to the sound sensor;

a determination module operable to use the sound sensor to determine if the recorded sound input matches a predetermined verbal statement of the voice command;

a reading module operable to use the embedded controller to read the voice command from the sound sensor in response to a determination that the recorded sound input matches the predetermined verbal statement of the voice command; and

a starting module operable to notify an operating system of the computing device to start the application corresponding to the voice command.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the microphone is selected from the group consisting of a condenser microphone, a dynamic microphone, a ribbon microphone, and a carbon microphone.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein voice command is a person ID recognition (PID) mode or a speaker independent recognition (SIR) mode.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the starting module notifies the operating system using an advanced configuration and power management interface (ACPI) to start the application corresponding to the voice command.

5. A method implemented by a computing device, the computing device comprising a sound sensor, a microphone, an embedded controller, the method comprising:

setting a voice command for the sound sensor, wherein the voice command is operable to start an application of the computing device;

recording a sound input by a microphone of the computing device and sending the recorded sound input to a sound sensor of the computing device;

using the sound sensor to determine if the recorded sound input matches a predetermined verbal statement of the voice command;

using an embedded controller of the computing device to read the voice command from the sound sensor in response to a determination that the recorded sound input matches the predetermined verbal statement of the voice command; and

notifying an operating system of the computing device to start the application corresponding to the voice command.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the microphone is selected from the group consisting of a condenser microphone, a dynamic microphone, a ribbon microphone, and a carbon microphone.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein voice command is a person ID recognition (PID) mode or a speaker independent recognition (SIR) mode.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the application corresponding to the voice command is started by notifying the operating system using an advanced configuration and power management interface (ACPI).

9. A non-transitory computing device-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing device, the computing device comprising a sound sensor, a microphone, an embedded controller, causing the computing device to perform an application start method, the method comprising:

setting a voice command for the sound sensor, wherein the voice command is operable to start an application of the computing device;

recording a sound input by a microphone of the computing device and sending the recorded sound input to a sound sensor of the computing device;

using the sound sensor to determine if the recorded sound input matches a predetermined verbal statement of the voice command;

using an embedded controller of the computing device to read the voice command from the sound sensor in response to a determination that the recorded sound input matches the predetermined verbal statement of the voice command; and

notifying an operating system of the computing device to start the application corresponding to the voice command.

10. The medium of claim 9, wherein the microphone is selected from the group consisting of a condenser microphone, a dynamic microphone, a ribbon microphone, and a carbon microphone.

11. The medium of claim 9, wherein voice command is a person ID recognition (PID) mode or a speaker independent recognition (SIR) mode.

12. The medium of claim 9, wherein the application corresponding to the voice command is started by notifying the operating system using an advanced configuration and power management interface (ACPI).