USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20180352067A1
• Filed: 09/27/2016
• Published: 12/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: WON, Seol-hye, RA, Jin, OH, Seok-min, LEE, Kang-min, HAN, Chul-ho
• Granted Patent: US 11,039,000 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64

Abstract

Disclosed are a user terminal apparatus and a control method therefor. According to the present invention, a user terminal apparatus comprises: a communication unit for performing data communication with a plurality of other user terminal devices which are set as a group; a controller for determining an output order of voice messages corresponding to user voices according to a predetermined condition, when the user voices are received from a plurality of other user terminal apparatus; and an output unit for outputting voice messages in a determined output order. Accordingly, the user terminal apparatus can provide a service that enables easy group community with a plurality of other user apparatus.

Claims

1. A user terminal apparatus comprising:

a communicator configured to perform data communication with a plurality of other user terminal apparatuses set as a group;

a controller configured to, in response to a user voice being received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, determine an output order of a voice message corresponding to the user voice according to a predetermined condition; and

an output unit configured to output the voice message in the determined output order.

2. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller, in response to a user voice being received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, determines an output order of a voice message corresponding to the user voice based on an order of receipt of the user voice.

3. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller determines an output order of a voice message corresponding to a user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses based on an order that an utterance request message is received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses.

4. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller analyzes similarity of a voice message corresponding to a user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, and determines an output order in an order of a voice message of which similarity is different.

5. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the output unit comprises a display unit and an audio output unit, and

wherein the controller controls the display unit to display an output UI which includes an execution icon regarding the voice message, and in response to a selection command on an execution icon included in the output UI being input, controls at least one of the display unit and the audio output unit to output a voice message corresponding to the selection command.

6. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the output unit comprises a display unit which displays a channel list UI for each group, and

wherein the controller, in response to one of objects for each group included in the channel list UI being selected, selects a group corresponding to the selected object as a conversation partner group and transmits an order voice to a plurality of user terminal apparatuses included in the conversation partner group.

7. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display reception status information on a user voice received from other user terminal apparatuses for each group on an object of each group included in the channel list UI.

8. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller, when an order voice is received from a first user terminal apparatus among the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, transmits an utterance request message to the first user terminal apparatus according to a request of a user for an utterance request, and in response to an utterance authority being set from the first user terminal apparatus, transmits a user voice with regard to the order voice to the first user terminal apparatus.

9. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the controller, in response to an informing message according to the utterance authority being received, provides a service informing of utterance possible status with regard to the order voice based on at least one of a vibration feedback and an event notification feedback.

10. A controlling method of a user terminal apparatus comprising:

receiving a user voice from a plurality of other user terminal apparatuses set as a group;

determining an output order of a voice message corresponding to the user voice according to a predetermined condition; and

outputting the voice message in the determined output order.

11. The controlling method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the determining comprises, in response to a user voice being received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, determining an output order of a voice message corresponding to the user voice based on an order of receipt of the user voice.

12. The controlling method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the determining comprises determining an output order of a voice message corresponding to a user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses based on an order that an utterance request message is received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses.

13. The controlling method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the determining comprises analyzing similarity of a voice message corresponding to a user voice received from the plurality of other user terminal apparatuses, and determining an output order in an order of a voice message of which similarity is different.

14. The controlling method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the outputting comprises displaying an output UI which includes an execution icon regarding the voice message and in response to a selection command on an execution icon included in the output UI, outputting a voice message corresponding to the selection command as at least one of a text and an audio signal.

15. The controlling method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

displaying a channel list UI for each group;

in response to one of an object for each group included in the channel list UI being selected, setting a group corresponding to the selected object as a conversation partner group; and

transmitting an order voice to a plurality of other user terminal apparatuses included in the conversation partner group.