Electronic device, server and control method thereof

• US 9,582,245 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2012
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Do-wan, Kwon, Oh-yun, Cha, Tae-hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Paras D
• Application Number:
  US13/710,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20140092007A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 704/231, 704/235, 704/251, 704/254, 704/270, 704/270.1, 704/275
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/231 Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2335 involving reformatting operations of audio signals, e.g. by converting from one coding standard to another details of audio signal transcoding G10L19/173
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6547 comprising parameters, e.g. for client setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38

Abstract

Provided are a display apparatus, a control method thereof, a server, and a control method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a processor which processes a signal; a display which displays an image based on the processed signal; a command receiver which receives a voice command; a communicator which communicates with a first server; a storage; and a controller which receives, from the first server, a voice recognition command list comprising a voice recognition command and control command information corresponding to the voice recognition command, and stores the received voice recognition command list in the storage, the voice recognition command being among user'"'"'s voice commands which have successfully been recognized a predetermined number of times or more, determines whether the voice command corresponds to the voice recognition command included in the voice recognition command list, and if so, controls the processor to operate based on the control command information, and if not, transmits the voice command to the first server, receives corresponding control command information from the first server, and controls the processor to operate based on the received control command information.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a signal receiver which receives a signal;

a display panel which displays an image based on the received signal.

a command receiver which receives a voice command from a user;

a communicator which communicates with a first server; and

a controller which;

receives, from the first server, a first voice command list comprising a plurality of voice commands each of which has been collected from a plurality of display apparatuses and successfully recognized a predetermined number of times or more and corresponding control commands,

stores the received first voice command list,

receives a first voice command from the user, and

in response to determining that the received first voice command is not comprised in the first voice command list, transmits the received first voice command to the first server, and receives a second voice command list updated by adding the transmitted first voice command and a corresponding control command to the first voice command list from the first server, and

updates the stored first voice command list into the received second voice command list.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines whether the received voice command is comprised in the first voice command list based on a determined relevance between the received voice command and the voice command comprised in the first voice command list.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in response to a predetermined time elapsing after the received voice command is transmitted to the first server, the controller operates based on the voice command comprised in the first voice command list.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, in response to the predetermined time elapsing after the received voice command is transmitted to the first server, the controller notifies the user of a content of the voice command comprised in the stored first voice command list in advance, and determines whether to operate based on the voice command according to a response by the user to the notifying.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the received voice command is newly recognized for a user, the controller transmits, to the first server, the recognized voice command and control command corresponding to the recognized voice command.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller transmits, to a second server, the received voice command, receives, from the second server, a text to which the transmitted voice command has been converted, and transmits the received text to the first server.

7. A control method of a display apparatus, the control method comprising:

receiving, from a first server, a first voice command list comprising a plurality of voice commands each of which has been collected from a plurality of display apparatuses and successfully recognized a predetermined number of times or more and control commands corresponding to the voice command;

storing the received first voice command list;

receiving a first voice command from a user;

in response to determining that the received first voice command is not comprised in the first voice command list, transmitting the received first voice command to the first server, and receiving a second voice command list updated by adding the transmitted first voice command and a corresponding control command to the first voice command list from the first server; and

updating the stored first voice command list into the received second voice command list.

8. The control method according to claim 7, wherein the determining whether the received voice command is comprised in the first voice command list comprises determining whether the received voice command corresponds to the voice command comprised in the first voice command list based on a determined relevance between the received voice command and the voice command comprised in the first voice command list.

9. The control method according to claim 7, further comprising operating based on the voice command comprised in the first voice command list in response to a predetermined time elapsing after the received voice command is transmitted to the first server.

10. The control method according to claim 9, wherein the operating based on the voice recognition command comprised in the first voice command list in response to the predetermined time elapsing comprises notifying the user of a content of the voice command comprised in the first voice command list in advance and determining whether to operate based on the voice command according to a response by the user to the notifying.

11. The control method according to claim 7, further comprising, if the received voice command is newly recognized for a user, transmitting, to the first server, the recognized voice command, and control command corresponding to the recognized voice command.

12. The control method according to claim 7, further comprising:

transmitting, to a second server, the received voice command;

receiving, from the second server, a text to which the transmitted voice command has been converted, from the second server, and

transmitting the received text to the first server.

13. A server which analyzes a user'"'"'s voice command to a display apparatus, the server comprising:

a communicator which communicates with a plurality of display apparatuses;

a storage which stores information regarding a plurality of voice commands and corresponding control commands; and

a controller which;

transmits a first voice command list comprising the plurality of voice commands each of which has been collected from a plurality of display apparatuses and successfully recognized a predetermined number of times or more and the corresponding control commands to one of the plurality of display apparatuses, and

in response to receiving a first voice command which is transmitted from the one of the plurality of display apparatuses and is not comprised in the first voice command list, generates a second voice command list updated by adding the received first voice command and a corresponding control command to the first voice command list, and transmits the generated second voice command list to the one of the plurality of display apparatuses, so that the one of the plurality of display apparatuses can update stored first voice command list into the received second voice command list.

14. A control method of a server which analyzes a user'"'"'s voice command to a display apparatus, the control method comprising:

communicating with one of a plurality of display apparatuses;

transmitting a first voice command list comprising a plurality of voice commands each of which has been collected from a plurality of display apparatuses and successfully recognized a predetermined number of times or more and corresponding control commands to the one of the plurality of display apparatuses;

in response to receiving a first voice command which is transmitted from the one of the plurality of display apparatuses and is not comprised in the first voice command list, generating a second voice command list updated by adding the received first voice command and a corresponding control command to the first voice command list; and

transmitting the generated second voice command list to the one of the plurality of display apparatuses, so that the one of the plurality of display apparatuses can update stored first voice command list into the received second voice command list.