# US 2014/0191949 A1 · Display apparatus and method of controlling a display apparatus in a voice recognition system

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- Number: US 2014/0191949 A1
- Document ID: US20140191949A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/149,487
- Filed: 2014-01-07
- Published: 2014-07-10
- Earliest claimed: 2013-01-07
- Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Eun-hee PARK; Sang-jin HAN; Jae-kwon KIM
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140191949A1

## CPC

- G06F 3/167: {Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback}
- G10L 15/22: Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
- G10L 15/32: Multiple recognisers used in sequence or in parallel; Score combination systems therefor, e.g. voting systems
- H04N 21/42203: {sound input device, e.g. microphone}
- H04N 21/472: End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content {(end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612)}
- G10L 15/30: Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
- G10L 2015/223: {Execution procedure of a spoken command}
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

A display method and apparatus for controlling a voice recognition system are provided. When a user's voice for controlling the display apparatus is input, the method of controlling the display apparatus transmits the voice's user to the interactive server, while determining whether the user's voice is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, and in response to the user's voice not being a pre-stored command in the display apparatus and the control information which corresponds to the user's voice and first guide information guiding the pre-stored command capable of the same function as the user's voice are transmitted from the interactive server, the method performs the function of the display apparatus, according to the control information transmitted from the interactive server, and displays the first guide information.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a user's voice to be used to control the display apparatus;
determining whether the user's voice is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus and transmitting the user's voice to an interactive server; and
performing a function of the display apparatus based on control information transmitted from the interactive server and displaying first guide information, in response to control information which corresponds to the user's voice and the first guide information being transmitted from the interactive server, in the case that the user's voice is not the pre-stored command in the display apparatus, the first guide information guides the pre-stored command capable of performing the same function as the user's voice.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive server
searches control information which corresponds to the user's voice;
determines whether there is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, while searching the control information which corresponds to the user's voice; and
in response to there being a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, generates first guide information which guides the pre-stored command and transmits the guide information with the control information to the display apparatus.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
in response to the user's voice being a pre-stored command, searching control information which corresponds to the pre-stored command; and
performing a function of the display apparatus based on the searched control information.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The method of claim 3, further comprising:
when the user's voice is a pre-stored command and the user's voice is a command which controls the function of the display apparatus having a plurality of hierarchy structures, displaying second guide information which guides an interactive command capable of performing the same function as the user's voice.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive server comprises a first interactive server which converts the user's voice into text information; and a second interactive server which generates control information and first guide information based on the text information.

### Claim 6

A display apparatus comprising:
a voice input configured to receive a user's voice to be used to control the display apparatus;
a communicator configured to communicate with an interactive server;
a storage configured to match a command and control information in order to store the same;
a display; and
a controller configured to transmit the user's voice via the communicator to the interactive server while determining whether the user's voice input via the user input is a pre-stored command,
when the user's voice is not a pre-stored command in the storage and when control information which corresponds to the user's voice and first guide information are transmitted from the interactive server, the first guide information guiding the pre-stored command capable of performing the same function as the user's voice, the controller being configured to perform a function of the display apparatus based on the control information transmitted from the interactive server and to control the display in order to display the first guide information.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the interactive server searches control information which corresponds to the user's voice;
determines whether there is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, while searching the control information which corresponds to the user's voice; and
when there is a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information, generates first guide information which guides the pre-stored command and transmits the guide information, to the display apparatus along with the control information.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the controller searches control information which corresponds to the user's voice pre-stored in the storage when the user's voice is a command pre-stored in the storage, and performs a function of the display apparatus based on the searched control information.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller controls the display in order to display second guide information which guides an interactive command performing the same function as the user's voice, when the user's voice is a pre-stored command and the user's voice is a command for controlling the function of the display apparatus having a plurality of hierarchy structures.

### Claim 10 (depends on 6)

The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the interactive server comprises a first interactive server which converts the user's voice into text information; and a second interactive server generating control information and first guide information based on the text information, and
the controller transmits the user's voice to the first interactive server and controls the communicator to transmit the text information from the first interactive server to the second interactive server.

### Claim 11

A method of controlling a voice recognition system comprising an interactive server and a display apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a user's voice by a display apparatus;
transmitting, by the display apparatus the user's voice via the communicator to the interactive server while determining whether the user's voice input via the user input is a pre-stored command;
transmitting, by the interactive server information to the display apparatus by generating at least one of control information which corresponds to the user's voice and first guide information, the first guide information guiding a pre-stored command in the display apparatus that can perform the same function as the control information; and
in response to the user's voice not being a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, performing, by the display apparatus a function based on control information transmitted from the interactive server and displays the first guide information.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, further comprising:
in response to the user's voice being a pre-stored command in the display apparatus, the display apparatus searches, control information which corresponds to the user's voice and performs a function of the display apparatus based on the searched control information.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12, further comprising:
in response to the user's voice being a pre-stored command and the user's voice is a command which controls the function of the display apparatus having a plurality of hierarchy structures, the display apparatus displays second guide information which guides an interactive command which performs the same function as the user's voice.

### Claim 14 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, wherein the interactive server comprises a first interactive server which converts the user's voice into text information; and a second interactive server which generates control information and first guide information based on the text information, and
the transmitting the user's voice comprises:
converting the user's voice into a digital signal by the display apparatus;
transmitting the digital signal to the first interactive server by the display apparatus;
generating text information which corresponds to the digital signal and transmitting the information to the display apparatus by the first interactive server; and
transmitting the text information to the second interactive server by the display apparatus.

### Claim 15 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, wherein the transmitting information further comprises:
in response to the user's voice not being a dialog pattern pre-stored in the interactive server, performing the same function as the user's voice, generating third guide information and transmitting the information to the display apparatus, the third guide information guide guiding a user's voice according to the dialog pattern stored in the interactive server by the interactive server; and
displaying the third guide information by the display apparatus.

### Claim 16 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, wherein the transmitting information further comprises:
in response to the user's voice being an interactive voice to which the interactive server cannot respond, generating, by the interactive server, fourth guide information by extracting a keyword from the user's voice and transmitting the information to the display apparatus, the fourth guide information guiding information related to the keyword; and
displaying, by the display apparatus, the fourth guide information.

### Claim 17

A display apparatus comprising:
a communicator configured to communicate with an interactive server;
a storage configured to match a command and control information in order to store the same; and
a controller configured to transmit the user's voice via the communicator to the interactive server while determining whether the user's voice input via a user input is a pre-stored command,
wherein when the user's voice is not a pre-stored command and when control information which corresponds to the user's voice and first guide information are transmitted from the interactive server, the first guide information guiding the pre-stored command capable of performing the same function as the user's voice, the controller being configured to perform a function of the display apparatus based on the control information transmitted from the interactive server and configured to control a display of the first guide information.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The display apparatus of claim 17, further comprising a voice input configured to receive a user's voice to be used to control the display apparatus.

### Claim 19 (depends on 17)

The display apparatus of claim 17 further comprising a display to display the first guide information.

### Claim 20 (depends on 17)

The display apparatus of claim 17, wherein the controller searches control information which corresponds to the user's voice pre-stored in the storage when the user's voice is a command pre-stored in the storage, and performs a function of the display apparatus based on the searched control information.
