KR100643302B1 - Terminal and method for data transmission during communication network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a terminal and a method for transmitting specific data while accessing a communication network. The terminal according to the present invention provides a voice recognition unit for recognizing an input voice, voice information having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice, and retrieved. And a control unit for selecting data mapped to voice information, and a transceiver for transmitting the selected data. In addition, the data transmission method of the terminal connected to the communication network according to the present invention comprises the steps of recognizing the input voice, searching for voice information having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice, and transmitting the data mapped to the retrieved voice information Steps.

According to the present invention, data can be simply transmitted during network connection.

Speech Recognition, Terminal, ARS System

Description

Terminal and method for data transmission in communication network {Terminal and method for data transmission in access to communication network}

1 is a view showing an entire system for transferring data using a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of voice information stored in the storage 150 and data mapped thereto in a table format.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a data transmission process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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110: voice input unit 120: key input unit

130 control unit 140 voice recognition unit

150: storage unit 160: transceiver

The present invention relates to a terminal, and more particularly, to a terminal and a method for transmitting specific data during a network connection.

Recently, phone banking or internet banking, which performs various financial operations using a general telephone or a mobile phone, has been used, and a user can use financial services such as account transfer (transfer) and balance inquiry without visiting the bank directly. The convenience of being provided is increasing its use.

Looking at an example of the conventional phone banking service use process, the first user visits the bank and is given a phone banking-only password along with his / her identity and registered as a legitimate user. After that, the user accesses the bank's phone banking server (phone banking ARS system) using a phone and inputs a phone banking-only password. In this case, a real-time password using a password table or a so-called runtime password may be additionally input.

After that, you select the service you want to use (for example, balance inquiry, transaction history inquiry, bank transfer, etc.), and in some cases, enter the account number or password of a specific account. For example, if the service you want to use is a wire transfer, you must enter the bank code and account number of the other party's account to be transferred, and enter the amount to be transferred.

As described above, in order to receive the phone banking service according to the related art, the user has to inconvenience by having to press the key (button) provided in the mobile phone one by one to transmit necessary information. In particular, if you want to use the phone banking service through a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, it is more inconvenient to operate the key while listening to the guidance message, thereby causing a lot of error in the input.

This problem may occur not only when using the phone banking service, but also when communicating with an ARS system for providing services such as securities investment, electronic commerce, train ticket reservation, and the like.

On the other hand, even if you do not use the ARS system, even if you want to pass the account number, password or social security number of the bank account that you use during voice calls between the terminal users, the important information of the individual is delivered to the call in the situation where the other side It is difficult to do, and even when using a text service such as SMS, as in the case of communicating with the ARS system, it is inconvenient to remember and enter a number of numbers one by one.

It is an object of the present invention to provide convenience for data transmission through a terminal even in a communication state.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects that are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, a terminal for data transmission during a network connection according to an embodiment of the present invention is a voice recognition unit for recognizing an input voice, and search for voice information having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice, And a control unit for selecting data mapped to voice information, and a transceiver for transmitting the selected data.

In order to achieve the above object, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a data transmission method of a terminal connected to a communication network includes recognizing an input voice, retrieving voice information having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice, and Transmitting the data mapped to the voice information.

Specific details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and the drawings.

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods for achieving them will be apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but can be implemented in various different forms, and only the embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and the general knowledge in the art to which the present invention belongs. It is provided to fully inform the person having the scope of the invention, which is defined only by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view showing an entire system for transferring data using a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The terminal A 100 is a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the terminal A 100 stores data stored by the user and a user's voice mapped to each data (hereinafter referred to as voice information). have.

Referring to the process of making a financial transaction through phone banking according to an embodiment of the present invention, the user of the first terminal A (100) is connected to the phone banking server 200 through a wired or wireless network. When receiving a specific data input from the phone banking server 200 through a predetermined procedure to receive the basic phone banking service, the user of the terminal A (100) is the same as his voice information stored in advance to map the data The voice of the pattern is input to the terminal A (100). The terminal A 100 retrieves voice information having the same voice pattern as the input voice and transmits data mapped to the retrieved voice information to the phone banking server 200.

For example, the user stores in advance the user account number of the A bank account used by the user and the voice information of the 'A bank account number' to be mapped to each other in the terminal A 100, and the phone banking server 200 while using the phone banking service. If the user is requested to input the account number of the bank account A, the user may input a voice of 'bank account number A' to the terminal A 100.

The terminal A 100 receiving the user's voice searches for voice information having a similarity with the input voice or more than a threshold value among voice information stored therein. When voice information having a similarity to the input voice and a threshold or more is searched, the terminal A 100 may transmit the account number of the A bank account mapped to the retrieved voice information to the phone banking server 200. In this case, before transmitting the account number of the A bank account, the terminal A 100 may receive confirmation of the transmission from the user.

This process is not only when using the phone banking service, but also while the user communicates with the ARS system that provides various types of services such as stock investment, electronic commerce, train ticket reservation, etc., to the terminal, transmission of specific data (eg, account number, password, etc.). The same may be applied to the case where a request is made.

In addition, the above-described process may be similarly applied when the user of the terminal A (100) wants to inform his or her personal information such as a bank account number, a password, or a social security number during a voice call with the user of the terminal B (300).

In this case, in order to prevent a voice inputted to transmit specific data from being recognized in the same way as a voice over a general call, the terminal may recognize the voice information when searching for voice information and transmit the data mapped thereto. It can be switched to a state (hereinafter referred to as a data transfer mode). To this end, a function key on the terminal or an icon of a touch screen that can switch the terminal to the data transmission mode may be used, or a distinctive voice input may be used only for the conversion to the data transmission mode. .

Meanwhile, the user of the terminal A 100 may store data to be mapped and stored in advance in the form of text data and voice data, and in this case, the user may determine a data type of information to be transmitted to the counterpart.

As described above, a user of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention stores specific information together with voice information, and if necessary, inputs a voice having the same pattern as the voice information to easily transmit the specific information to another terminal or system. Hereinafter, the configuration of the terminal and its operation process will be described in detail.

2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The illustrated terminal 100 includes a voice input unit 110 for inputting a user's voice, a key input unit 120 having one or more keys operable by a user, and transmitting a key signal of a key to be operated to the controller 130; The controller 130 controls the operation of each block constituting the terminal 100, retrieves voice information having the same pattern as the voice analyzed by the voice recognition unit 110, and selects data mapped thereto, and a voice input unit. The voice recognition unit 140 that recognizes the voice input through the 110, the storage unit 150 for storing the voice information and the data mapped thereto and the transceiver 160 for transmitting and receiving data with another terminal or system Include.

The voice input unit 110 may input a user's voice to the terminal 100, such as a microphone, and the terminal 100 may include a voice output unit (not shown) such as a speaker to provide two-way voice communication. It may be.

The key input unit 120 may include a keypad having one or more keys. The key signal of the key operated by the user is output to the controller 130, and the user can control the terminal 100 through the key input unit 120.

The key input unit 120 may include a function key for switching the terminal 100 in communication with another terminal or system to a data transmission mode.

For example, while using a phone banking service using a terminal or performing voice communication with another terminal user, if a user wants to input a voice to the voice input unit 110 to transmit specific data, the user may use a terminal (eg, a function key). 100) can be switched to the data transfer mode. The terminal 100 switched to the data transmission mode may analyze the characteristics of the voice input through the voice input unit 110 to recognize the input voice and search for voice information having the same voice pattern. When there is the searched voice information, the terminal 100 may transmit the corresponding information after confirming to the user whether to transmit the information mapped thereto, and the user who transmits the necessary information may use the same function key or another function key to transmit the corresponding information. It is also possible to release the data transmission mode of the ( When the data transmission mode is released, the terminal 100 may determine that the input voice is for general voice communication and continue the voice communication.

As a means for the user to switch or release the terminal 100 to the data transmission mode as described above, it is used not only using the above-described key input unit 120 but also to switch / release to the touch screen (not shown) or the data transmission mode. Recognition of a particular voice may be used.

The controller 130 controls the operation of each block constituting the terminal 100. In particular, when there is a command for switching the data transmission mode by the user, the controller 130 may allow the voice recognition unit 140 to recognize the user's voice input through the voice input unit 110, and the voice recognition unit 140. The storage unit 150 may search for voice information having a voice pattern identical to that of the voice recognized by). Speech information having a similarity to the speech recognized by the speech recognizer 140 or more than a certain threshold may be recognized as speech information having the same speech pattern.

When voice information having the same voice pattern as that of the input voice is searched, the controller 130 selects and transmits data mapped to the retrieved voice information. Meanwhile, the controller 130 checks whether the information is transmitted to the user through a display unit (not shown) that outputs a video signal or an audio output unit (not shown) that outputs an audio signal before transmitting the corresponding data. You can also do that.

The voice recognition unit 140 under the control of the controller 130, analyzes the characteristics of the voice input through the voice input unit 110, and recognizes the voice input through the analyzed information.

In this speech recognition technology, VQ (Vector Quantization) technique that encodes continuous or separated vectors with a codebook and encodes them into a digital sequence suitable for communication, and statistical information of patterns corresponding to speech units in the form of a probability model Various methods can be applied, such as HMM (Hidden Markov Model), which finds the most suitable speech unit by calculating the probability that the pattern can come out from each model when it is stored and an unknown input pattern comes in.

The storage unit 150 may store voice information, data mapped thereto, data contents describing the meaning of each data, and the like, and one embodiment of information stored in the storage unit 150 is illustrated in FIG. 3.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of voice information stored in the storage 150 and data mapped thereto in a table format.

Looking at the data content 230 of the table shown, it can be seen that the account number of the user's A bank account, the account number of the savings account, the savings account password and the like are stored. Such data 220 is mapped to voice information 210 such as 'A account', 'saving bank account', 'password', and the like.

Therefore, when the user wants to transmit the account number of the A bank account to another terminal or system, the user inputs the voice recognition mode and then pronounces 'A account' in the voice input unit 110. Is recognized). The controller 130 searches for the voice information 212 having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice in the storage unit 150 and transmits data (account number of the A bank account) 222 mapped to the retrieved voice information. do.

Meanwhile, for security of personal information, the terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention may further include a speaker recognition unit (not shown) capable of distinguishing a user who inputs a voice. In this case, even if a person other than the user who stored the voice information inputs the voice having the same pattern as the stored voice information to the terminal, the terminal may not respond thereto.

For example, in order to find out the user's savings passbook password, a person other than the user who stores the information as shown in the embodiment of FIG. 3 switches the terminal to a data transmission mode and inputs a voice of 'password' through the voice input unit of the terminal. In this case, the speaker recognizer may analyze whether the input voice is the voice of the original user. If it is determined that the input voice is not the voice of the original user by the speaker recognition unit, the controller 130 does not operate the voice recognition unit 140 or the same voice pattern as the voice recognized by the voice recognition unit 140. For example, the terminal 100 may not respond to the input voice, such as not performing a search of the voice information having the same.

In addition, as another embodiment of the present invention, the user may set some of the keys provided in the key input unit 120 as shortcut keys and store necessary data to correspond to each shortcut key. For example, when specific data is mapped using the first button of the key input unit 120 as a shortcut key, a user who receives a request for transmission of the corresponding data during communication with another terminal or system, switches the terminal to the data transmission mode, and then You can also send the data by pressing a short button, such as pressing and holding the 1 button.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a data transmission process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user stores voice information and data to be mapped thereto in the terminal 100 in advance. The stored voice information may be a specific voice of a user input through the voice input unit 110. An embodiment of stored voice information and data mapped thereto is as described above with reference to FIG. 3.

In the case of connecting to an ARS server for phone banking, e-commerce, or communicating with another terminal user, a user who wants to transmit specific data through the communicating terminal switches the terminal to a data transmission mode (S110). This is to distinguish between the voice inputted to the terminal to retrieve the voice information mapped to the specific information and the voice input to the terminal to perform a general voice call. Switching to the information transmission mode is possible through the operation of the function key provided in the key input unit 120 and the description thereof is as described above.

When the terminal is switched to the data transmission mode, the user may input a voice having the same pattern as the voice information stored to be mapped with the specific data to the voice input unit 110 (S120).

When the user's voice is input, the voice recognition unit 140 analyzes and recognizes the input voice, and the controller 130 searches for voice information having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice (S130). Searching for speech information (S130) may include extracting a speech feature by analyzing the input speech, recognizing the input speech based on the extracted speech feature, and indicating similarity between the recognized speech and a specific threshold or more. Searching voice information can be subdivided.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the speaker recognition step may be further included. When a voice is input to the terminal (S120), a speaker recognition step of checking whether the input voice is a legitimate user's voice is performed, and if the input voice is recognized as a legitimate user's voice, a voice recognition and searching step (S130) is performed. You can also

When voice information indicating the same voice pattern as the input voice is found as a result of the voice recognition and search (S130), the controller 130 confirms whether or not to transmit data mapped to the retrieved voice information (S140 and S150).

If the user approves the transmission of the data, the terminal transmits the data mapped to the retrieved voice information (S160). If there is no information to be transmitted, the terminal releases the information transmission mode (S180, S190). If there is other data to be transmitted, the user may repeat the above process from the voice input step S120.

On the other hand, the voice information having the same voice pattern as that of the input voice is not retrieved (S140), or if the data mapped to the retrieved voice information is not the data to be transmitted by the user, or the user has not approved the transmission of the retrieved information. If the terminal (S150) determines whether the user will input the voice again (S170).

If the user wants to re-enter the voice to search for data to be transmitted, the process following the voice input step (S120) is repeatedly performed, and if the user does not want to re-enter the voice, the information transmission mode may be released (S190). have.

Meanwhile, according to another embodiment of the present invention, when the user maps the necessary data to the shortcut key, the user may similarly apply the above-described process by operating the shortcut key instead of the voice input to transmit the necessary data.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may implement the present invention in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. You will understand that. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive.

According to the terminal and the method for data transmission during communication network connection of the present invention as described above, there is an advantage in that data can be simply transmitted during communication network connection.

Claims (10)

A speaker recognition unit to check whether the input voice is a legitimate user's voice; A voice recognition unit recognizing the input voice when the input voice is confirmed as a voice of a legitimate user by the speaker recognition unit; A controller configured to search for voice information having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice and to select data mapped to the retrieved voice information; And Terminal for data transmission during a network connection including a transmission and reception unit for transmitting the selected data. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the voice recognition is performed after switching to a data transmission mode. delete The terminal of claim 1, wherein the transmitted data is transmitted after a transmission approval of a user. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the retrieved voice information and the data mapped to the voice information are stored in advance by a user. Checking whether the input voice is a legitimate user's voice; Recognizing the input voice when the input voice is confirmed as a voice of a legitimate user; Retrieving voice information having the same voice pattern as the recognized voice; And And transmitting data mapped to the retrieved voice information. The method of claim 6, wherein the voice recognition step is performed after the terminal is switched to the data transmission mode. delete The data transmission method of claim 6, wherein the data transmission is performed after the user approves the transmission. The method of claim 6, wherein the retrieved voice information and the data mapped to the voice information are stored in advance by a user.

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