DISPLAY APPARATUS CAPABLE OF RELEASING A VOICE INPUT MODE BY SENSING A SPEECH FINISH AND VOICE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20190341051A1
• Filed: 07/17/2019
• Published: 11/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHOI, Sung-wook, RYU, Hee-seob, LEE, Hee-ran, HWANG, Sung-pil
• Granted Patent: US 10,720,162 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/28 Constructional details of speech recognition systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/78 Detection of presence or absence of voice signals switching of direction of transmission by voice frequency in two-way loud-speaking telephone systems H04M9/10

Abstract

A voice control method and display apparatus are provided. The voice control method includes converting a voice of a user into text in response to the voice being input during a voice input mode; performing a control operation corresponding to the text; determining whether speech of the user has finished based on a result of the performing the control operation; awaiting input of a subsequent voice of the user during a predetermined standby time in response to determining that the speech of the user has not finished; and releasing the voice input mode in response to determining that the speech of the user has finished.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a display;

a voice receiver;

a communicator; and

a processor configured to;

based on a user voice being received through the voice receiver in a voice input mode, receive information corresponding to the user voice from a server through the communicator,

based on the information corresponding to a single result being received from the server through the communicator, control the display to display a result UI corresponding to the single result,

based on the information corresponding to a plurality of results being received from the server through the communicator, control the display to display a list including the plurality of results and perform the voice input mode,

based on a second user voice for selecting at least one of the plurality of results being received within a predetermined time of the performed voice input mode, control the display to display a result screen corresponding to the second user voice.