Mobile terminal and method for displaying menu thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYou-Hwa Oh, Ik-Hoon Kim, Kyoung-Jin Jo, Jae-Do Kwak
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method for automatically displaying a menu relating to a specific function by recognizing a user's voice command in a call mode, and for directly executing the menu, and a mobile terminal having the same. A mobile terminal may include a microphone configured to receive a user's voice in a video call mode, a display for displaying information, and a controller configured to recognize the voice, detect a voice command included in the voice, and automatically display a menu corresponding to the detected voice command on the display.
Claims14
A mobile terminal, comprising:
- a microphone configured to receive a user's voice during a video call;
- a display configured to display information;
- an input unit configured to receive a user input;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- initiate the video call with a call recipient in response to a first input via the input unit;
- activate a voice recognition function during the video call in response to a second input via the input unit;
- receive, during the video call, an input comprising a natural language conversation of a user of the mobile terminal with the call recipient;
- convert the natural language conversation into text format;
- detect, during the video call, a voice command from the text format of the natural language conversation,
- wherein the natural language conversation comprises one or more words which form the voice command and one or more additional words which do not form the voice command;
- control the display to display a menu associated with the detected voice command in response to detecting the voice command;
- execute a function associated with the displayed menu;
- control the display to display an icon for sharing information associated with the executed function;
- transmit the information associated with the executed function to the call recipient in response to the user dragging the icon to a specific region displayed on the display;
- and
- control the display to sequentially display menus associated with each of a plurality of detected voice commands.
A method for transmitting data from a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- initiating a video call with a call recipient in response to a first input via an input unit;
- activating a voice recognition function during the video call in response to a second input via the input unit;
- receiving, during the video call, an input comprising a natural language conversation of a user of the mobile terminal with the call recipient;
- converting the natural language conversation into text format;
- detecting, during the video call, a voice command from the text format of the natural language conversation, wherein the natural language conversation comprises one or more words which form the voice command and one or more additional words which do not form the voice command;
- displaying, on a display of the mobile terminal, a menu associated with the detected voice command in response to detecting of the voice command;
- executing a function associated with the displayed menu;
- displaying, on the display, an icon for sharing information associated with the executed function;
- detecting a plurality of voice commands;
- sequentially displaying menus, on the display, in response to the detecting of the plurality of voice commands;
- and
- transmitting the information to the call recipient in response to the user dragging the icon to a specific region displayed on the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.