US 11,700,409 B2Granted

Server and method for controlling server

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsYong-wook Shin, Seung-min Shin, Sung-wook Choi, Hye-jeong Lee, Ji-hye Chung

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Abstract

A display apparatus and a server which implements an interactive system are disclosed. The server includes a communicator which receives text information corresponding to a user voice collected at the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and a controller which extracts an utterance component from the text information and controls so that a query to search contents is generated using the extracted utterance component and transmitted to an external server which categorizes metadata of the content under each item and stores the same, in which the controller generates the query by adding a preset item to a criteria to search a content, when a number of criteria to categorize the content under an item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

a receiver;
a communicator;
and
a processor configured to:
receive a signal corresponding to a first content via the receiver,
while the first content is displayed on a display, receive a user voice input via a voice receiver,
if the user voice input is a first user voice input which corresponds to a request associated with the displayed first content, receive data corresponding to a first search result which is based on the first user voice input and information regarding the displayed first content, from a server, via the communicator, and process the received data to display the first search result together with the first content,
if the user voice input is a second user voice input which does not correspond to the request associated with the displayed first content, but corresponds to a search for a second content, receive data corresponding to a second search result which is based on the second voice input from the server, via the communicator, and process the received data to display the second search result together with the first content, and
if the user voice input is a third user voice input which corresponds to a control of a function of the electronic device, control the function based on the third user voice input.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/199,113Filed 11 Mar 2021 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2013-00018397 Jan 2013
Published: US 2021/0204013 A11 Jul 2021
Granted: 11 Jul 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

H04N 21/278
Server based end-user applications: content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access
G06F 3/167
Sound input; Sound output: audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
G10L 15/26
Speech recognition: speech to text systems

Family

Application14/149,083Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Jan 2014
Application15/174,142Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Jun 2016
US 9,380,330 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Jun 2016
US 2021/0204013 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Jul 2021
US 10,986,391 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0196091 A1Published application
US 2016/0286256 A1Published application
US 11,700,409 B2This patent

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