ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20150127353A1
• Filed: 05/08/2013
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Nam-gook, Kim, Jeong-su, Yun, Hyun-kyu, Kim, Ki-beom
• Application Number:
  US14/400,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20150127353A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/685 using automatically derived transcript of audio data, e.g. lyrics speech recognition G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

A method for controlling the electronic apparatus including: receiving an input of an audio which includes a user'"'"'s voice; processing the audio and generating a user voice signal; transmitting the user voice signal to a first server; receiving text information corresponding to the user voice signal from the first server; and controlling the electronic apparatus, according to the text information.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving an input of an audio which includes a user'"'"'s voice;

processing the audio and generating a user voice signal;

transmitting the user voice signal to a first server;

receiving text information corresponding to the user voice signal from the first server; and

controlling the electronic apparatus, according to the text information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controlling comprises determining whether the text information is text information related to a control command or text information related to a search.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the determining comprises:

determining that the text information is text information related to the control command in response to a prestored control command corresponding to the received text information being stored in the electronic apparatus; and

determining that the text information is text information related to the search in response to a prestored control command corresponding to the received text information not being stored in the electronic apparatus.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the controlling comprises:

controlling, in response to determining that the text information is text information related to the prestored control command, the electronic apparatus according to the prestored control command corresponding to the text information.

5. The method according to claim 2, the method further comprising:

in response to determining that the text information is related to the search,

generating a query corresponding to the text information;

transmitting the query to a second server;

receiving search information corresponding to the text information from the second server; and

outputting the received search information.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating the user voice signal comprises:

determining whether an energy value of the input audio is greater than a predetermined energy value;

removing, in response to the energy value being greater than the predetermined energy value, noise included in the audio and extracting the user'"'"'s voice from the audio; and

signal processing the extracted user'"'"'s voice and generating the user voice signal.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating the user voice signal comprises:

determining whether an energy value of the input audio is greater than a predetermined energy value;

determining, in response to the energy value being greater than the predetermined energy value, whether a predetermined keyword is included in the audio;

extracting, in response to the predetermined keyword being included in the audio, the user'"'"'s voice after the predetermined keyword from the audio; and

signal processing the extracted user voice after the predetermined keyword and generating the user voice signal.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving comprises:

receiving the audio using an audio receiving device provided external to the electronic apparatus.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the

the audio receiving device processes the audio and generates the user voice signal, and

wherein the audio receiving device transmits the generated user voice signal to the electronic apparatus.

10. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a voice inputter configured to receive an input of an audio including a user'"'"'s voice, and process the audio to generate a user voice signal;

a communicator configured to transmit the user voice signal to a first server, and to receive text information corresponding to the user voice signal from the first server; and

a controller configured to control the electronic apparatus, according to the text information.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether the text information is text information related to a control command or text information related to a search.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a storage configured to store a command related to a control command,

wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the received text information corresponding to the stored command, determine that the text information is text information related to the control command, and to, in response to the received text information not corresponding to the stored command, determine that the text information is text information related to the search.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to determining that the text information is text information related to the control command, control

the electronic apparatus according to the control command corresponding to the text information.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a display,

wherein

the controller is further configured to, in response to determining that the text information is text information related to the search, generate a query corresponding to the text information, transmits the query to a second server, control the communicator to receive search information corresponding to the text information from the second server, and outputs the received search information to the display.

15. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the voice inputter comprises:

an energy determiner configured to determine whether an energy value of the input audio is greater than a predetermined energy value;

a noise remover configured to, in response to the energy value of the input audio being greater than the predetermined energy value, remove noise included in the audio and extract the user'"'"'s voice; and

a voice signal generator configured to process the extracted user voice to generate the user voice signal.

16. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a voice inputter configured to receive an audio signal comprising a user voice signal;

a communicator configured to transmit the user voice signal to a first server, and to receive text information corresponding to the user voice signal from the first server; and

a controller configured to control the electronic apparatus based on the received text information.

17. The electronic apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to determine whether a keyword is included in a first portion of the user voice signal and, in response to the keyword being included in the first portion of the user voice signal, transmit the user voice signal to the first server.

18. The electronic apparatus according to claim 16, further comprising:

a storage configured to store one at least one command word related to at least one control command,

wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the received text information corresponding to one command word among the at least one command word, control the electronic apparatus to execute at least one control command related to the one command word.

19. The electronic apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the electronic apparatus is configured to receive the input audio signal from an external sound receiving device, the sound receiving device being configured to determine whether a sound level of an input audio is greater than a predetermined sound level, and to, in response to the sound level of the input audio being greater than the predetermined sound level, transmit the input audio to the electronic apparatus.

20. The electronic apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the received text information not corresponding to at least one of the at least one command word, generate a query comprising the text information, control the communicator transmit the query to a second server, and control the communicator to receive search information corresponding to the query from the second server.