KR100595621B1 - Voice guidance method for state information in hand-held terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for guiding information of a mobile terminal, and in particular, in a mobile terminal equipped with a voice synthesis engine, when a folder (or flip) is opened or a specific key is pressed, the operation state of the mobile terminal is converted into a voice and / or an image. The purpose is to allow the user to easily recognize the operating state of the portable terminal. In the present invention for this purpose, the control unit 110 detects the mobile phone information such as the battery level, bell volume level, the presence of missed calls and messages, roaming status, the current date / time through the interface unit memory 120 Storing the data in the control unit; checking whether the control unit 110 presses a specific key or opening a folder (or flip); and when the control unit 110 detects pressing the specific key or opening a folder (or flip). The mobile phone information stored in the memory 120 is displayed as an image on the screen of the LCD 130 as well as configured to perform the step of outputting the voice through the speaker (SP).

Description

VOICE GUIDANCE METHOD FOR STATE INFORMATION IN HAND-HELD TERMINAL}

1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone information guiding device in an embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 2 is an exemplary view of the LCD window for guiding the mobile phone information in the embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an operation flowchart showing a mobile phone information guide process in an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

110: control unit 111: voice synthesis engine (TTS)

120: memory 130: LCD (LCD)

140: voice processing unit 150: interface unit

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable terminal, and more particularly, to an information guiding method in a portable terminal equipped with a speech synthesis engine.

Currently, mobile terminals, in particular, mobile communication terminals (hereinafter, abbreviated as cellular phones) are being widely distributed to many people due to the mobility of making wireless calls anytime and anywhere and the miniaturization that can be easily carried.

However, as the lifestyle of the modern man is diversified in complexity, the mobile phone needs not only a function for a telephone call or a message transmission but also a function for allowing a user to operate the mobile phone more conveniently and easily in performing a function.

In particular, voice technology is also installed so that users with disabilities can easily use a mobile phone.

Prior arts using speech technology include Korean Patent Application No. 2001-62199 (name: e-book browser system using a speech synthesis engine, hereinafter referred to as "Previous Embodiment 1") and Korean Patent Application No. 2000-67049 (name: move) A data processing method and a data processing apparatus of a terminal, hereinafter referred to as "prior embodiment 2", are shown.

The conventional embodiment 1 is a technology for converting a text input by a user into a voice by mounting a text to speech (TTS) engine in a mobile terminal.

That is, the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is to provide a portable information terminal and an e-book browser system capable of converting a text input directly by a user or a text document created in an e-book browser installed in a client system into voice.

Conventional Embodiment 1 for this purpose is a plurality of client systems for producing an e-book and providing the e-book providing server to a plurality of client systems, and using the e-book data provided from the e-book providing server to drive the e-book browser In the e-book browser system consisting of, the e-book providing server that performs the function of converting the text data into the voice data (Text To Speech) and the e-book can be used to apply the speech synthesis engine And an e-book editor for generating data, and a reader for outputting the e-book created by the e-book editor to the screen and the voice using the voice synthesis function.

In addition, the first embodiment is an interface unit for receiving e-book data from an external device to achieve the above object, a storage device for storing the e-book data received through the interface unit, and the storage device A control unit for converting the e-book data in the form of a screen or a voice output using a built-in voice synthesis engine (TTS) according to a user's intention and outputting a control signal for providing to a client; In the portable information terminal having an input means for transmitting to the control unit, the control unit is provided with a control function for converting the text information input through the input means to control the speech synthesis engine to output in the form of speech It features.

The second embodiment is a technique for reading data information received from a mobile phone through voice synthesis.

In other words, the second embodiment of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for more conveniently utilizing data in a mobile terminal by allowing a subscriber to receive information such as an advertisement message unilaterally transmitted from an operator at a desired time. do.

In order to achieve this purpose, the data processing method of the mobile terminal according to the second embodiment of the present invention uses a short message service (SMS) function or an over-the-air activation (OTA) function to transmit text to the mobile terminal. Receiving the data, storing the text data in the nonvolatile memory of the mobile terminal, and checking the text data stored in the nonvolatile memory at a desired time of the subscriber.

In addition, the data processing apparatus of the mobile terminal according to the second embodiment includes a TTS module for converting text data received from a base station into voice data, and a speaker for reproducing voice data generated by the TTS module as voice. Characterized in that made.

In conclusion, the prior art (Examples 1 and 2) is to mount a speech synthesis engine on a portable device to output information stored in text in the form of speech.

However, the related art has a disadvantage in that its speech synthesis engine is mounted on a portable device and has only a function for simply outputting information stored as text in voice form.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method of guiding information of a portable terminal, which is designed to guide the operation state of the portable terminal with voice and / or images in order to improve the conventional problem.
That is, according to the present invention, when a folder or flip open or a specific key is pressed in a portable terminal equipped with a voice synthesis engine, the user can carry the portable terminal by guiding the operating state of the portable terminal with voice and / or an image. The purpose is to make it easy to recognize the operating state of the terminal.

The present invention provides a method for providing information of a mobile terminal in order to achieve the above object, the status information of the mobile terminal (battery level, bell volume level, the presence of missed calls and messages received, roaming status, current date / time) And determining whether there is a specific key press or folder (or flip) open, and guiding the status information to voice and image when the specific key press or folder (or flip) open is detected. It is done.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a mobile terminal will be described on the assumption that it is a folder-type mobile phone.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for an embodiment of the present invention, as shown therein, an interface for detecting mobile phone information such as whether there is a missed call and receiving a message, current date / time, battery level, volume level, etc. The unit 150, a memory 120 for storing mobile phone information sensed through the interface unit 150, and controls the storage operation of the memory 120, when the folder open or a specific key is pressed when the memory ( The mobile phone information stored in the 120 is converted into a form to be displayed on the screen of the LCD 130 and / or converted into a voice form by using a voice synthesis engine (TTS) 111 and then an image on the LCD 130. And a controller 110 for outputting voice to the speaker through the display and / or voice processor 140.

The interface unit 150 is connected to an RF processing circuit, a timer, a battery remaining detection circuit, and a voice processing circuit and configured to detect various mobile phone information.

Referring to Figures 2 and 3 the operation and effect of the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary view of an LCD window for guiding mobile phone information in an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of guiding mobile phone information in an embodiment of the present invention.

That is, in the embodiment of the present invention, the control unit 110 detects mobile phone information such as battery level, bell volume level, presence of missed calls and messages, roaming status, current date / time, and the like through the interface unit 150. Storing in step 120; checking whether the controller 110 has a specific key press or folder open; and when the specific key press or folder open is detected by the interface unit 150, the controller 110 Converting the mobile phone information stored in the memory 120 into a form to be displayed on the screen of the LCD 130 or into a form of a voice to be output to the speaker SP using the voice synthesis engine 111, and the controller 110 Is configured to perform the step of displaying the converted mobile phone information as an image on the LCD 130 and at the same time to the voice processing unit 140 to output the voice through the speaker (SP), in detail If the person follows.

First, the controller 110 detects the remaining battery capacity, the bell volume level, the absence of a missed call, the presence or absence of a message such as SMS, LMS, MMS, the current date / time, and roaming through the interface unit 150. . The sensing operation may be performed periodically or whenever a corresponding state occurs.

Here, the detected mobile phone information is stored in the memory 120 by the controller 110.

In addition, the controller 110 checks the interface unit 150 to confirm whether a specific key press or folder opening occurs.

Subsequently, when the folder is opened by the user, the controller 110 reads the mobile phone information stored in the memory 120 and converts it into a screen form that can be displayed on the LCD 130 and at the same time the speaker using the voice synthesis engine 111. The voice is converted into a voice form for output to the SP.

Accordingly, the controller 110 transmits the mobile phone information of the screen form converted to the LCD 130 to display the image as an image and delivers the mobile phone information of the voice form to the voice processing unit 140 to deliver the speaker SP. Will be output as voice.

For example, if the current mobile phone information is the same as the example shown in Fig. 2, the speaker (SP) "the current battery charge level is 60%", "volume level is 40%", "no missed calls.", "There are two incoming messages", "The current time is 10:25 am", "Today is September 13" will be output sequentially. In addition, the controller 150 displays the image (or text) corresponding to the voice on the LCD 130 simultaneously with the voice guidance as described above.

If a specific key for checking mobile phone information is installed on the outside of the mobile phone, when only a specific key is pressed by the user instead of the folder open, the control unit 110 receives the mobile phone information stored in the memory 120. The synthesized engine 111 is used to convert the voice into a form for output to the speaker SP.

Thereafter, the controller 110 transmits the mobile phone information of the converted voice form to the voice processing unit 140 to output the voice through the speaker SP. In this case, the mobile phone information may be converted into an image (or text) and displayed on the LCD 130.

Therefore, the user can quickly and easily control any function by checking the status information of the mobile phone easily even in an uncomfortable state.

As described in detail above, the present invention has an effect of quickly and easily informing a user of the state of the portable terminal by sensing the state information of the portable terminal and guiding the voice and image.

In particular, the present invention can provide convenience for the uncomfortable subscriber, for example, the elderly or visually impaired with poor vision.

Claims (4)

Detecting and storing state information of the mobile terminal; Checking whether the status information notification mode is set; Converting the status information into a voice form when the status information notification mode is set; And outputting the converted state information in the form of voice to a speaker. The method of claim 1, wherein the status information notification mode is set by pressing a specific key or opening a folder (or flip). The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an image of the status information of the portable terminal to be voiced when the status information notification mode is set. The information guide of claim 1, wherein the status information includes at least one of battery level, bell volume level, missed calls and messages, roaming status, and current date / time. Way.

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