Display Device Voice Recognition Context Awareness

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing speech recognition services in display devices do not consider the usage environment of the device, leading to limitations in accurately interpreting user voice commands.

Innovation Solution

A display device equipped with a network interface and control unit that receives voice commands, acquires usage information, and transmits this information to a server to determine the user's intention, allowing for dynamic operation based on the voice command and usage context.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the speech recognition service depends only on the user's utterance, then the system complexity is reduced, but the accuracy of intention recognition deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidintention recognition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring usage information (channel information, volume information, input device information) before processing the voice command. This preliminary data collection enables the server to accurately interpret user intention by combining it with the current usage context, resolving the contradiction between system simplicity and recognition accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces usage information as an intermediary element that mediates between the user's voice command and the system's intention recognition. This intermediary provides contextual background that helps the server accurately understand user intent without requiring the client device to be overly complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If usage information is transmitted to the server for each voice command, then the accuracy of speech recognition is improved, but the network communication load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespeech recognition accuracyVSAvoidnetwork communication load
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the necessary usage information (channel, volume, input device) that is relevant for speech recognition accuracy, rather than transmitting all possible device data. This selective extraction reduces network communication load while maintaining recognition accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Measurement precision

If a separate dictionary is built in the server for all real-time information, then the completeness of recognition is improved, but the server load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecognition completenessVSAvoidserver load
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and transmits only the specific usage information needed for context-aware recognition (channel, volume, input device) rather than maintaining a comprehensive dictionary of all possible real-time information in the server. This approach achieves recognition completeness for relevant contexts while minimizing server load.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The client device self-services by collecting and transmitting its own usage information to the server, eliminating the need for the server to maintain and update a separate dictionary for all real-time device states. This shifts the information gathering responsibility to the client, reducing server burden.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11881220B2Display device for providing speech recognition service and method of operation thereof
Publication Date: 2024.01.23 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A display device for providing a speech recognition service according to an embodiment of the present disclosure can include a display unit, a network interface unit configured to communicate with a server, and a control unit configured to receive a voice command uttered by a user, acquire usage information of the display device, transmit the voice command and the usage information of the display device to the server through the network interface unit, receive, from the server, an utterance intention based on the voice command and the usage information of the display device, and perform an operation corresponding to the received utterance intention.