DEVICE FOR DETERMINING SAMENESS BETWEEN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20160239539A1
• Filed: 02/16/2016
• Published: 08/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SONG, Gene Wook, JEON, Byung Joon
• Granted Patent: US 10,223,414 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24522 Translation of natural language queries to structured queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24528 Standardisation; Simplification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/53 Processing of non-Latin text kana-to-kanji conversion G06F40/129; vowelisation G06F40/232
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory in which contact information is stored, a communication circuit configured to receive at least one piece of contact information from the outside, and a processor configured to unify language scripts between a name of the stored contact information and a name of the received contact information and determine whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information by comparing the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information in a unified language script.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a memory in which a plurality of pieces of contact information is stored;

a communication circuit configured to receive at least one piece of contact information from the outside; and

a processor configured to unify language scripts between a name of the stored contact information and a name of the received contact information and determine whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information by comparing the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information in a unified language script.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the language scripts of the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information are identified based on Unicode.

3. The electronic device of claim 1,

wherein an operation of unifying the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed based on a default script, and

wherein the default script comprises the language script of the name of the stored contact information, the language script of the name of the received contact information, or another language descript other than both the language scripts.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein, in a case where one of the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is written in a Korean script and the other is written in a Roman script, an operation of unifying the language scripts comprises converting a Korean-script name into a Roman-script name.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the converting of the Korean-script name into the Roman-script name comprises generating a plurality of Roman character sets by applying a phoneme-based Romanization system to each of a plurality of phonemes included in the Korean-script name.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the phoneme-based Romanization system is differently applied with respect to a case where a certain phoneme is placed as an initial consonant and a case where the phoneme is placed as a final consonant.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information comprises comparing each of the plurality of Roman character sets corresponding to the Korean-script name with the Roman-script name.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the comparing of each of the plurality of Roman character sets corresponding to the Korean-script name with the Roman-script name comprises determining whether at least one of the plurality of Roman character sets corresponding to the plurality of phonemes included in the Korean-script name is included in the Roman-script name.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein an operation of unifying the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed by transmitting, to an external server, a request for language script unification between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information and receiving a result of the language script unification via the communication circuit.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information is performed excluding an unimportant part of each of the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the unimportant part comprises at least one of a name suffix, a title, an address term, a number, or a special character.

12. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed based on an abbreviation.

13. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein an operation of determining whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information is performed by further comparing a telephone number or a mail address included in the stored contact information with a telephone number or a mail address included in the received contact information.

14. A method to be performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving at least one piece of contact information from the outside;

unifying language scripts between a name of contact information stored in a memory and a name of the received contact information;

comparing the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information in a unified language script; and

determining whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information based on a result of the comparing.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the unifying of the language scripts between the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is performed based on a Roman script which is a default script.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, in a case where one of the name of the stored contact information and the name of the received contact information is written in a Korean script and the other is written in a Roman script, an operation of unifying the language scripts comprises converting a Korean-script name into a Roman-script name.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the converting of the Korean-script name into the Roman-script name comprises generating a plurality of Roman character sets by applying a phoneme-based Romanization system to each of a plurality of phonemes included in the Korean-script name.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the comparing of the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information comprises comparing each of the plurality of Roman character sets corresponding to the Korean-script name with the Roman-script name.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the determining of whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information is performed by further comparing a telephone number or a mail address included in the stored contact information with a telephone number or a mail address included in the received contact information.

20. At least one non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for storing a computer program configured to be readable by at least one processor, for instructing the at least one processor to execute a computer process for performing a method comprising:

receiving at least one piece of contact information from the outside;

unifying language scripts between a name of contact information stored in a memory and a name of the received contact information;

comparing the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information in a unified language script; and

determining whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information based on a result of the comparing.