INFORMATION TERMINAL AND VOICE OPERATION METHOD

• US 20150262583A1
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Takenouchi, Hayato, Kanda, Atsuhiko
• Application Number:
  US14/431,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20150262583A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/228 of application context
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders

Abstract

A mobile phone 10 is installed with a plurality of applications, and an arbitrary operation by a voice input can be performed. The mobile phone 10 stores a history of an application performed by a user in a RAM (46). If the user performs a voice input saying “Use camera”, “standard camera” and “AR camera” that are applications in a category of “camera” are acquired as a search result. At this time, the search result is narrowed down based on a use history of the user. If a use frequency of “standard camera” is higher than that of “AR camera”, “standard camera” is performed.

Claims

1. An information terminal that an operation by a voice input is possible, comprising:

a storage module operable to store a plurality of applications and a use history of each of the applications;

an acquisition module operable to acquire specific information for specifying an application to be performed based on an input voice;

a narrowing-down module operable to narrow down, based on the use history, the specific information that is acquired; and

a performing module operable to perform an application based on a result that is narrowed down by the narrowing-down module.

2. The information terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a display module that displays the result that is narrowed down by the narrowing-down module, wherein

the performing module performs an application based on a result that is selected when a selection operation is performed to the result that is narrowed down.

3. The information terminal according to claim 2, wherein the display module displays results when there are a plurality of results that are narrowed down by the narrowing-down module.

4. The information terminal according to claim 2, wherein the display module does not display a result when the result that is narrowed down by the narrowing-down module is one, and

the performing module performs an application based on the result that is narrowed down by the narrowing-down module.

5. The information terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a browsing module that performs a browser function connected to a network when the acquisition module cannot acquire the specific information;

a search module that searches a search term based on an input voice using the network connected by the browser function; and

a web page display module that displays a web page that is searched by the search module.

6. The information terminal according to claim 5, wherein a browsing history of a web page is included in the use history, and the web page display module displays a web page based on the browsing history.

7. A voice operation method in an information terminal that comprises a storage module operable to store a plurality of applications and a use history of each of the application, and can be operated by a voice input, a processor of the information terminal performing:

acquiring specific information for specifying an application to be performed based on a voice that is input;

narrowing down, based on the use history, the specific information that is acquired; and

performing an application based on a result that is narrowed down.