DISPLAY APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INTERACTIVE SYSTEM, AND CONTROLLING METHODS THEREOF

• US 20140003820A1
• Filed: 06/17/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Yui-yoon, CHO, Sung-kil, KIM, Ki-suk
• Granted Patent: US 8,983,299 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 398/106
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/28 using pulse code
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device

Abstract

A display apparatus, an electronic device, an interactive system, and controlling methods thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes: a storage unit which stores peripheral device control information in which a remote control signal for controlling a peripheral device of the display apparatus matches with a control signal corresponding to a user voice; a voice collector which the user voice; a communicator which transmits the collected user voice to the display apparatus and receives the control signal corresponding to the user voice from the display apparatus; an infrared ray (IR) transmitter which transmits the remote control signal for controlling the peripheral device; and a controller which, if the control signal is received from the display apparatus, controls the IR transmitter to transmit a remote control signal corresponding to the received control signal among remote control signals stored in the storage unit, to the peripheral device.

Claims

1. An electronic device which communicates with a display apparatus, the electronic device comprising:

a storage which stores peripheral device control information, said peripheral device control information being related to a remote control signal for controlling a peripheral device of the display apparatus that matches with a control signal corresponding to a user voice;

a voice collector which collects the user voice;

a communicator which transmits the collected user voice to the display apparatus and receives the control signal corresponding to the user voice from the display apparatus;

an infrared ray (IR) transmitter which transmits the remote control signal for controlling the peripheral device; and

a controller which, if the control signal is received from the display apparatus, controls the IR transmitter to transmit the remote control signal corresponding to the received control signal among remote control signals stored in the storage unit, to the peripheral device.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

an IR receiver which receives the remote control signal from a remote controller which controls the peripheral device of the display apparatus,

wherein the controller transmits the collected user voice to the display apparatus in response to the received remote control signal and receives the control signal corresponding to the user voice from the display apparatus to generate the peripheral device control information.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein:

the peripheral device control information further comprises information about a received external input mode;

the communicator receives the control signal and the information about the external input mode of the display apparatus; and

if the control signal and the information about the external input mode are received from the display apparatus, the controller controls the IR transmitter to transmit the remote control signal corresponding to the received control signal and the external input mode to the peripheral device.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, further comprising:

an IR receiver which receives the remote control signal from a remote controller which controls the peripheral device of the display apparatus,

wherein the controller transmits the collected user voice to the display apparatus in response to the remote control signal and receives the control signal corresponding to the user voice and the information about the external input mode of the display apparatus from the display apparatus to generate the peripheral device control information.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is one from among an IR blaster and a multiband remote controller (MBR).

6. A display apparatus which communicates with a first device which is to control a second device, the display apparatus comprising:

a first communicator which communicates with the first device;

a second communicator which communicates with a server which performs a voice recognition function; and

a controller which, if a user voice is received from the first device, transmits the received user voice to the server, receives a control signal corresponding to the user voice from the server, and transmits the control signal to the first device,

wherein the control signal is a signal which corresponds to a remote control signal for controlling the second device in the electronic device.

7. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein if the user voice is received, the controller controls to determine an external input mode, transmits information about the determined external input mode and the user voice to the server, receives the information about the external input mode and a control signal corresponding to the user voice from the server, and transmits the information about the external input mode and the control signal to the first device.

8. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein if the user voice is received, the controller controls to determine an external input mode and transmit information about the determined external input mode and the control signal received from the server to another server.

18. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first device is an electronic device and the second device is a peripheral device of the display apparatus.

9. A method of controlling a first device, the method comprising:

storing second device control information in which a remote control signal for controlling a second device of a display apparatus matches with a control signal corresponding to a user voice;

collecting a user voice;

transmitting the collected user voice to the display apparatus;

receiving the control signal corresponding to the user voice from the display apparatus; and

transmitting one of pre-stored remote control signals corresponding to the received control signal to the second device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the storing of the second device control information comprises:

receiving the remote control signal from a remote controller which controls the second device of the display apparatus;

collecting the user voice in response to the remote control signal;

transmitting the collected user voice to the display apparatus;

receiving the control signal corresponding to the user voice from the display apparatus; and

generating and storing the second device control information in which the received remote control signal and the control signal match with each other.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the second device control information further comprises information about an external input mode;

the reception of the control signal comprises receiving the control signal and information about the external input mode of the display apparatus; and

the transmission of the one of the pre-stored remote control signals to the second device comprises transmitting the received control signal and the remote control signal corresponding to the information about the external input mode, to the second device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the storing of the second device control information comprises:

receiving the remote control signal from the remote controller which controls the second device of the display apparatus;

collecting the user voice in response to the remote control signal;

transmitting the collected user voice to the display apparatus;

receiving the control signal corresponding to the user voice and the information about the external input mode of the display apparatus from the display apparatus; and

generating and storing the second device control information in which the received remote control signal, the control signal, and the information about the external input mode match with one another.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the electronic device is one of an infrared ray (IR) blaster and a multiband remote controller (MBR).

14. A method of controlling a display apparatus which communicates with an first device which is to control a second device, the method comprising:

receiving a user voice from the first device;

transmitting the received user voice to a server which performs a voice recognition function;

receiving a control signal corresponding to the user voice from the server; and

transmitting the received control signal to the first device,

wherein the control signal is a signal in the first device which corresponds to a remote control signal which controls the second device.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

if the user voice is received, determining an external input mode; and

transmitting information about the external input mode,

wherein the receiving of the control signal comprises receiving the information related to the external input mode and the control signal corresponding to the user voice from the server.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

if the user voice is received, determining an external input mode; and

transmitting information about the determined external input mode to the first device.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the first device is an electronic device and the second device is a peripheral device of the display apparatus.

17. An interactive system comprising a display apparatus and a first device which is to control a second device of the display apparatus,

wherein:

the first device transmits a collected user voice to the display apparatus, receives a control signal corresponding to the user voice, and transmits one of pre-stored remote control signals corresponding to the received control signal to the second device; and

the display apparatus transmits the user voice to a server which performs a voice recognition function if the display apparatus receives the user voice from the first device, receives the control signal corresponding to the user voice from the server, and transmits the control signal to the first device.

20. The interactive system of claim 17, wherein the first device is an electronic device and the second device is a peripheral device of the display apparatus.