SPEECH RETRIEVAL DEVICE, SPEECH RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20160328206A1
• Filed: 03/09/2015
• Published: 11/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NAKAOKA, HIDEAKI, KOGANEI, TOMOHIRO
• Granted Patent: US 9,928,030 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A voice search apparatus includes a web page display controller, a voice recognizer, a matching unit, and a URL creator. The web page display controller controls a web page which is to be displayed on a display. The voice recognizer recognizes a voice that is input, converts the voice into character string information, and outputs the character string information. The matching unit refers to a URL list in which a character string representing part of a URL is registered for each search category, performs matching processing between a URL of the web page displayed on the display and the character string in the URL list, and specifies the character string in the URL list corresponding to the URL. The URL creator creates a URL based on the character string specified by the matching unit and the character string information.

Claims

1. A voice search apparatus comprising:

a web page display controller that controls a web page which is to be displayed on a display;

a voice recognizer that recognizes a voice that is input, converts the voice into character string information, and outputs the character string information;

a matching unit that refers to a URL list in which a character string representing part of a URL is registered for each search category, performs matching processing between a URL of the web page displayed on the display and the character string in the URL list, and specifies the character string in the URL list corresponding to the URL; and

a URL creator that creates a URL based on the character string specified by the matching unit and the character string information.

2. A voice search method comprising:

displaying a web page on a display;

recognizing a voice that is input and converting the voice into character string information;

referring to a URL list in which a character string representing part of a URL is registered for each search category, performing matching processing between a URL of the web page displayed on the display and the character string in the URL list, and specifying the character string in the URL list corresponding to the URL; and

creating a URL based on the specified character string and the character string information.

3. A display apparatus comprising:

a display;

a web page display controller that controls a web page which is to be displayed on the display;

a voice recognizer that recognizes a voice that is input, converts the voice into character string information, and outputs the character string information;

a matching unit that refers to a URL list in which a character string representing part of a URL is registered for each search category, performs matching processing between a URL of the web page displayed on the display and the character string in the URL list, and specifies the character string in the URL list corresponding to the URL; and

a URL creator that creates a URL based on the character string specified by the matching unit and the character string information.