Voice-Selectable Display Menus for Intuitive TV Item Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display control devices, such as television receivers, face challenges in performing voice operations with high usability due to user unfamiliarity with voice operation functions and commands, especially as the number of commands increases.

Innovation Solution

A display control device and method that includes a voice receiver, communication unit, and controller to select items on a display screen based on voice utterances, allowing for voice operations through network information, and supports smart voice modes with standardized menu screens for intuitive item selection and control.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the number of voice commands is increased to support more functions, then the versatility of the display control device is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to user unfamiliarity with the increasing number of commands

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefunctionality coverageVSAvoiduser familiarity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically displays standardized menu screens that show available voice commands and their functions, allowing users to self-learn and operate the device without external guidance. The menu screens present commands in a structured format that users can reference independently.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides visual feedback through standardized menu screens that display the current voice command options and their corresponding functions. This feedback mechanism helps users understand what commands are available and how to use them, improving ease of operation while maintaining versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If standardized menu screens are implemented to improve ease of operation, then the ease of operation is improved through intuitive item selection, but the device complexity increases due to additional display control mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintuitive item selectionVSAvoiddisplay control mechanisms

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The standardized menu screens serve multiple functions: they display available voice commands, show command descriptions, provide visual feedback during voice operations, and guide users through the interface. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate control mechanisms while improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12585428B2Display control device for selecting item on basis of speech

Publication Date: 2026.03.24 INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HLDG

AI summary

The present technology relates to a display control device and a display control method that enable voice operations with higher usability. Provided is a display control device including: a voice receiver configured to receive a voice utterance from a user; a communication unit configured to receive information for the voice utterance from a server via a network; and a controller configured to select an item corresponding to the voice utterance on the basis of the information that has been received, and configured to control an action in response to the item that has been selected, in which the item includes a first item in an inside of a display screen and a second item that becomes displayable, and the controller selects either the first item or the second item on the basis of the information that has been received. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a television receiver.