Selecting options by uttered speech
AssigneeSaturn Licensing LLC
InventorShunichi Sugiura
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Abstract
A receiving apparatus includes a control unit that performs a process of searching for one of a channel and a content on the basis of a phrase that is recognized from an uttered speech of a user, a process of selecting one of a single channel and a single content from among a plurality of channels and a plurality of contents obtained through the search process, a process of displaying, on a display unit, one of the selected content and a content that is being broadcasted on the selected channel, and a process of displaying, as options, item images representing a plurality of channels or a plurality of contents that are obtained through the search process on the display unit.
Claims20
A receiving apparatus comprising:
- control circuitry configured to perform
- searching for one of a channel and a content on the basis of a phrase that is recognized from uttered speech;
- selecting one of a plurality of channels or one of a plurality of contents obtained based on a speech recognition result through the searching in accordance with priority that is based on at least one of a viewing history and preference information of a user and time information, wherein the speech recognition result is responsive to the uttered speech transmitted to a server using speech recognition that identifies one specific user from a plurality of users;
- displaying, as options on a display, item images representing one of the plurality of channels or the plurality of contents, wherein each of the item images includes a reading item, in a form of character information displayed on the display, for speech input corresponding to one of the plurality of channels or one of the plurality of contents, the reading item includes one of a channel name and a content name and further includes an identification number assigned to each of the item images when channel names or content names of the item images are redundant;
- displaying, on the display, an image for requesting speech input of the identification number for selection from the plurality of channels or the plurality of contents;
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- displaying, on the display, a content corresponding to one of the plurality of channels or the one of the plurality of contents on the basis of uttered speech corresponding to the identification number.
A control method implemented by a processor, the control method comprising:
- searching for one of a channel and a content on the basis of a phrase that is recognized from uttered speech;
- selecting one of a plurality of channels or one of a plurality of contents obtained based on a speech recognition result through the searching in accordance with priority that is based on at least one of a viewing history and preference information of a user and time information, wherein the speech recognition result is responsive to the uttered speech transmitted to a server using speech recognition that identifies one specific user from a plurality of users;
- displaying, as options, on a display, item images representing one of the plurality of channels or the plurality of contents, wherein each of the item images includes a reading item, in a form of character information displayed on the display, for speech input corresponding to one of the plurality of channels or one of the plurality of contents, the reading item includes one of a channel name and a content name and further includes an identification number assigned to each of the item images when channel names or content names of the item images are redundant;
- displaying, on the display, an image for requesting speech input of the identification number for selection from the plurality of channels or the plurality of contents;
- and
- displaying, on the display, a content corresponding to one of the plurality of channels or the one of the plurality of contents on the basis of uttered speech corresponding to the identification number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.