APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION

• US 20150347597A1
• Filed: 05/26/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SHIN, Seung-min, LEE, Yong-hoon, KIM, Seung-won, SHIN, Yong-wook, CHOI, Dong-hyun
• Application Number:
  US14/721,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20150347597A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/787 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A method for providing additional information by an electrical apparatus, the method including: extracting at least one keyword from input source data; detecting context information corresponding to a user to whom the additional information is to be provided; determining at least one keyword corresponding to an object of interest of the user from among the extracted at least one keyword based on the detected context information; acquiring additional information corresponding to the determined at least one keyword; and outputting the acquired additional information.

Claims

1. A method for providing additional information by an electrical apparatus, the method comprising:

extracting at least one keyword from input source data;

detecting context information corresponding to a user to whom the additional information is to be provided;

determining at least one keyword corresponding to an object of interest of the user from among the extracted at least one keyword based on the detected context information;

acquiring additional information corresponding to the determined at least one keyword; and

outputting the acquired additional information.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the source data comprises at least one from among data of a social network service (SNS), a web document, and video content; and

wherein the source data for the video content comprises at least one of video data, audio data, and subtitles.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises:

recognizing identification information of the user;

identify the user to whom the additional information is to be provided based on the recognized identification information; and

detecting the context information of the identified user.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the context information comprises at least one of:

profile information of the user, preference information of the user, viewing history information of the user, surrounding environment information, search history information of the user, or reaction history information corresponding to the user'"'"'s reaction to previously provided additional information,

profile information, preference information, or viewing history information of other users corresponding to the user to whom the additional information is to be provided, and

present time information.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the determining comprises determining at least one of at least one frequently extracted keyword and at least one frequently searched for keyword from among the extracted at least one keyword as the at least one keyword corresponding to the object of interest of the user.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the acquiring comprises:

determining a search scheme for the additional information based on at least one of the determined at least one keyword, the detected context information, and characteristics of the extracted at least one keyword; and

acquiring the additional information based on the determined search scheme.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outputting comprises:

analyzing at least one of a genre of video content output from a terminal apparatus and an output state of the video content; and

outputting, in response to, as a result of the analyzing, the genre of the video content being determined to be a first genre or an output duration time of the video content being determined to be greater than or equal to a threshold period of time, the additional information to another terminal apparatus registered in connection with the user.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the outputting further comprises outputting, in response to, as a result of the analyzing, the genre of the video content being determined to be a second genre, the user being recognized less than the threshold period of time, or the output duration time of the video content being determined to be less than the threshold period of time, voice data related to the additional information to the terminal apparatus.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising determining an operation state of the terminal apparatus,

wherein the outputting of the additional information comprises outputting, in response to determining that the terminal apparatus is in a deactivated state, the additional information to the another terminal apparatuses registered in connection with the user.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the outputting comprises outputting the acquired additional information to a terminal apparatus,

the context information comprises preference information, and

the method further comprises updating the preference information in response to a user selection command for the additional information being input to the terminal apparatus.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

a communicator configured to communicate with a server to receive source data;

an extractor configured to extract at least one keyword from the source data;

a storage configured to store at least one context information corresponding to a user to whom additional information is to be provided; and

a controller configured to;

detect, from the storage, the at least one context information corresponding to the user,

determine at least one keyword corresponding to an object of interest of the user from among the extracted at least one keyword based on the detected context information,

acquire the additional information corresponding to the determined at least one keyword, and

output the additional information.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein:

the source data comprises at least one of social network service (SNS) data, a web document, and data for video content, and

the data for video content comprises at least one of video data, audio data, and subtitles.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to recognize identification information of the user, and identify the user based on the recognized identification information.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein the context information comprises at least one of:

profile information of the user, preference information of the user, viewing history information of the user, surrounding environment information, search history information of the user, or reaction history information corresponding to the user'"'"'s reaction to previously provided additional information,

profile information, preference information, or viewing history information of other users corresponding to the user to whom the additional information is to be provided, and

present time information.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to determine at least one of at least one frequently extracted keyword and at least one frequently searched for keyword among the extracted at least one keyword as the at least one keyword corresponding to the object of interest of the user.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to:

determine a search scheme for the additional information based on the determined at least one keyword, the context information, and characteristics of the extracted at least one keyword, and

acquire the additional information corresponding to the determined at least one keyword based on the determined search scheme.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to:

analyze at least one of a genre of video content output from a terminal apparatus and an output state of the video content, and

output, as a result of the analyzing, in response to the genre of the video content being determined to be a first genre or an output duration time of the video content being determined to be greater than or equal to a threshold period of time, the additional information to another terminal apparatuses registered in connection with the user.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to output, as a result of the analyzing, in response to the genre of the video content being determined to be a second genre, the user being recognized for less than the threshold period of time, or the output duration time of the video content being determined to be less than the threshold period of time, voice data related to the additional information to the terminal apparatus.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to:

determine an operation state of the terminal apparatus, and

output, in response to determining that the terminal apparatus is in a deactivated state, the additional information to the another terminal apparatuses.

20. The apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein:

the context information comprises preference information, and

the controller is further configured to;

output the additional information to a terminal apparatus, and

update, in response to a user selection command for the additional information being input to the terminal apparatus, the preference information.

21. A display apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to output video content;

a transceiver;

a storage configured to store context information corresponding to a user; and

a controller configured to;

control the transceiver to receive source data,

extract at least one keyword from the source data,

extract the context information corresponding to the user,

determine at least one interest keyword from among the extracted at least one keyword based on the extracted context information,

control the transceiver to acquire additional information based on the determined at least one interest keyword, and

control the transceiver to output the additional information.