US 8,571,320 B2 · Method and apparatus for pictorial identification of a communication event

Abstract

The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for pictorial identification of a communication event using speech or text recognition in an electronic device. The communication can be (but is not limited to) a telephone call, an electronic mail message, MMS, SMS, an instant message, etc. Words from the communication event are identified using the speech or text recognition by the electronic device and at least one picture out of a library of reference pictures is identified by comparing the identified words with the key picture words using a predetermined criterion. Color background of the identified standard picture can be also identified using the identified words and a further predetermined criterion. The identified picture can be displayed during the communications event or can be stored so the user can identify the topic of the communication event later on.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

initiating, by a first device, a communication event comprising speech, text, or both speech and text with a second device via a network connection;
identifying, by said first device, words from said communication event using at least one of speech recognition and text recognition during the communication event, said identified words comprising words received via a user interface of said first device and words received via said network connection from said second device;
identifying, by said first device, at least one picture from a library of reference pictures stored in said first device by comparing said identified words with a plurality of key picture words during the communication event, each of the at least one picture in the library of the reference pictures corresponding to at least one of the key picture words;
and
storing said at least one picture identified from said library in the first device such that a topic of the communication event is associated with the stored at least one picture.

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An apparatus, comprising a processor and a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform the following acts:

identify a word selected from among words from a communication event facilitated by a network connection with another apparatus using speech recognition, text recognition, or both, during the communication event and for providing the identified word, said words comprising words received via said network connection from said other apparatus and words received via a user, interface of said apparatus;
identify a picture out of a library of reference pictures by comparing said identified word with picture words identifying said reference pictures in said library during the communication event, wherein each reference picture in the library of the reference pictures is identified by a unique picture word;
and
store said identified picture after the communication event in a communication log of communication events such that a topic of the communication event is associated with the stored at least one picture.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus for pictorial identification of a communication event

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