Speaker displaying method and videophone terminal therefor

• US 9,083,848 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2011
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ok, Eul Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Hemant
• Application Number:
  US13/325,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20120287218A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,308 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416, 370259-271, 370351-357, 709201-207, 709217-248, 379/201.01, 37920201-20701
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

A speaker displaying method displaying who is a speaker while many users are performing a videophone call and a videophone terminal implementing the same are provided. The method includes detecting voice characteristic information of other characters when a videophone call starts so as to match the characteristic information with character images of a received image in a one-to-one correspondence, detecting voice characteristic information from a voice received after the matching, and displaying a character image matching the detected voice characteristic information distinguished from other character images.

Claims

1. A speaker display method of a videophone terminal, the method comprising:

matching each of a plurality of voice characteristic information to one of a plurality of character images in a one-to-one correspondence and storing a result of the matching in a memory;

receiving an image and a voice from a communication unit;

detecting voice characteristic information and character images from the received voice and the received image, respectively;

searching character characteristic information corresponding to the voice characteristic information from the memory;

selecting one character image corresponding to the searched character characteristic information from the plurality of character images stored in the memory; and

displaying the selected character image as distinguished from other character images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detected voice characteristic information and the searched character characteristic information are tone information and location information, respectively.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the selected character image comprises displaying a contour of a character image matching with the detected voice characteristic information.

4. A videophone terminal comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive an image and a voice;

a controller configured to match each of a plurality of voice characteristic information to one of a plurality of character images in a one-to-one correspondence;

a memory configured to store a result of the matching performed by the controller; and

a display unit configured to display data associated with a videophone call;

wherein the controller is further configured to;

detect voice characteristic information and character images from the received voice and the received image, respectively,

search character characteristic information corresponding to the voice characteristic information from the memory,

select one character image corresponding to the searched character characteristic information from the plurality of character images stored in the memory; and

control the display unit to display the selected character image as distinguished from other character images.

5. The videophone terminal of claim 4, wherein, when the character characteristic information corresponding to the voice characteristic information is not found in the memory, the controller is further configured to:

detect a gesture from the received image,

select one of the character images based on the gesture,

detect character characteristic information from the one of the character images, and

map the voice characteristic information to the detected character characteristic information.

6. The videophone terminal of claim 5, wherein the controller is further configured to mark an unregistered character image when the character characteristic information matching the voice characteristic information is not found in the memory,

wherein the unregistered character image is an image of which character characteristic information is not stored in the memory.

7. The videophone terminal of claim 4, wherein the display unit is further configured to display a contour of the selected image.

8. The videophone terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to detect tone information from the received voice and detects location information of a character image from the received image.

9. The videophone terminal of claim 4, wherein the display unit includes a touchscreen for receiving a user input,

wherein, in response to the user input, the controller controls the display unit to display a divided screen including a main screen and a sub screen, controls the display unit to display the at least one character image in the main screen, and controls the display unit to display at least one application icon in the sub screen.

10. The videophone terminal of claim 9, wherein, in response to the user input corresponding to one of the at least one application icon, the controller controls the display unit to display information corresponding to the at least one application icon and the speaker image.