Home Appliance Voice Intent Conversion for Reliable Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing voice command systems fail to accurately interpret the intent of a user's command due to the lack of consideration for the characteristics of different home appliances, leading to erroneous transmissions and inefficient control.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a display device and a server, capable of receiving a voice command, analyzing its intent, and converting it into a control command suitable for the specific home appliance, ensuring accurate and efficient operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If intent-based control is used for home appliances, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to erroneous intent transmission
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary device (such as a smart speaker or control system) that acts as a mediator between the user's voice command and the home appliance. This intermediary performs intent analysis and converts the voice command into appropriate control signals, reducing direct communication errors and improving reliability while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the control system receives responses from home appliances and verifies whether the intended operation was successfully executed. This feedback loop allows for error detection and correction, enhancing reliability without complicating the user interface.
2Device complexity
If standardized IoT control protocols are used, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability deteriorates due to lack of appliance-specific characteristics
Solution Approach 1:
The control system dynamically adapts its behavior based on the specific home appliance being controlled. It adjusts communication protocols, parameter formats, and control logic according to the target device characteristics, enabling standardized interfaces to work with diverse appliances without increasing apparent device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes communication parameters such as data formats, signal types, and control commands based on the specific home appliance being controlled. This allows a single standardized interface to adapt to different device requirements by modifying transmission parameters rather than changing the fundamental control architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
A home appliance according to an embodiment of the present disclosure can include: a transceiver configured to perform communication with a display device and a server; and a processor configured to receive text data corresponding to a voice command uttered by a user from the display device through the transceiver, acquire an intent of the received text data, generate a first control command including a first intent command indicating the acquired intent, convert the first intent command included in the first control command into a second intent command suitable for the home appliance, generate a second control command including the converted second intent command, and perform an operation according to the generated second control command.