Voice Query Server for Criteria-Based Content Search

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display apparatuses lack the ability to efficiently search for content based on user voice commands, leading to inefficiencies and reduced user convenience.

Innovation Solution

A server system that processes user voice inputs to generate queries for content search, adding preset criteria when necessary to ensure efficient categorization and retrieval of relevant content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If voice-based control is implemented in display apparatuses, then ease of operation is improved, but the ability to search and provide content according to user voices is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidcontent search capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The server segments the user's voice input into multiple utterance components, each representing different search criteria. This allows the system to process complex voice commands by breaking them down into manageable parts that can be individually evaluated and combined with stored criteria to perform comprehensive content searches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary between the display apparatus and the content database. It receives voice input from the display apparatus, processes the utterance components against stored search criteria, and generates appropriate content search results, thereby enabling the display apparatus to perform sophisticated content search without having the processing capability itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If multiple criteria are used to categorize content, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent categorization precisionVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server pre-stores multiple search criteria and their relationships in a structured format before receiving voice commands. This preliminary organization of search criteria allows the system to quickly and accurately process user queries by simply matching utterance components against the pre-established criteria structure, avoiding the need for complex real-time analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250254377A1Server and method for controlling server
Publication Date: 2025.08.07 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus and a server which implements an interactive system are disclosed. The server includes a communicator which receives text information corresponding to a user voice collected at the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and a controller which extracts an utterance component from the text information and controls so that a query to search contents is generated using the extracted utterance component and transmitted to an external server which categorizes metadata of the content under each item and stores the same, in which the controller generates the query by adding a preset item to a criteria to search a content, when a number of criteria to categorize the content under an item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number.