Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hoseon Shin

Chulmin Lee

Jaeyung Yeo

Gajin Song

Taegu Kim

Kyounggu Woo

Kyungtae Kim

Kanghee Lee

Youngwoo Lee

YoungWoo Lee

Dongchoon Hwang

Woojung Han

Eunkyung Lee

Joohwan Kim

Yoonju Lee

Changwoo Han

Taejin Lee

Hyeoncheon Jo

Sijun Lee

Changbeom Lim

Seungyeol Lee

Kihyuck Ryu

Seunghyo Chun

Cheol Ryu

A method of controlling a content playing device and an electronic device performing the method are provided. The method of controlling a content playing device includes playing content on a second electronic device connected to an electronic device, identifying, by the electronic device, a third electronic device and connecting the electronic device to the third electronic device, determining whether a specialized function related to playing the content is present among functions of the second electronic device, and playing the content, played on the second electronic device, on the third electronic device.

Method of controlling content playing device and electronic device performing the method

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to detect, based on a voice command obtained from a user, candidate objects in a viewing region of the user, determine a representative property among candidate properties of the detected candidate objects, output, for each of the detected candidate objects, feedback based on a property value of the representative property of a corresponding candidate object, and determine, based on obtaining an additional command that specifies a property value of the representative property from the user, an object indicated in the voice command as a candidate object having the property value of the representative property specified by the additional command.

Method and device for determining object indicated by voice command

A server for providing content shared to an object is provided. The server is configured to establish communication between a first electronic device of a user and a second electronic device of another user and provide, to the first electronic device and the second electronic device, a virtual space and an object in the virtual space. The server selects, based on an input of the user, at least one content shared to the object in the virtual space by the other user of the second electronic device entering the same virtual space as the first electronic device. The server activates the object to identically output the selected content to at least one electronic device entering the virtual space. Based on the second electronic device leaving the virtual space, the server stops providing the content shared by the other user.

Electronic device and method of providing content sharing based on object

An example server for constructing a virtual space includes a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions by accessing the memory. The instructions, when executed, cause the processor to extract first partial voice data corresponding to a target utterance from voice data of a first user received from a terminal of the first user among users in the virtual space; instruct a target terminal of the target user to reproduce the first partial voice data; and, based on transmission of second partial voice data of a second user to the target user being requested while the target terminal reproduces the first partial voice data, instruct the target terminal to display visual information generated based on the second partial voice data.

Device and method for transmitting voice data of user in virtual space

According to various embodiments, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a plurality of microphones, a speaker, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to output audio through the speaker based on data received from an external electronic device through the communication circuit, identify an utterance including a specified keyword received through at least some of the plurality of microphones, based on identifying the utterance including the specified keyword, decrease the volume of the audio output through the speaker and perform an operation for providing a speech of a user of the electronic device and a speech of a person other than the user of the electronic device based on at least some of ambient sounds received through at least some of the plurality of microphones.

Electronic device including speaker and microphone and method for operating the same

Provided is a method of synchronizing device information between a terminal of a virtual environment (e.g., a metaverse environment) and a terminal of a real space. The operating method of a server includes receiving, from a first terminal, a request to register device information, obtaining device information of a second terminal, in the metaverse, corresponding to the first terminal, based on device matching information, and determining device information of the first terminal, based on the device information of the second terminal, in which the device matching information is determined based on innate attributes of the first terminal and the second terminal.

Method and device for synchronizing device settings

A wireless audio device is provided. The wireless audio device includes an audio receiving circuit, an audio output circuit, an acceleration sensor, a communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless audio device to detect an utterance of a user of the wireless audio device by using the acceleration sensor, enter a dialog mode in which at least some of ambient sounds received by the audio receiving circuit are output through the audio output circuit, in response to detecting the utterance of the user, and end the dialog mode if no voice is detected for a specified time or longer by using the audio receiving circuit in the dialog mode.

Method for controlling ambient sound and electronic device therefor

An electronic device according to various embodiments includes: a microphone, a memory, and a processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: control the electronic device to copy a signal acquired from the microphone, record a first signal, and perform voice recognition on a second signal based on a recording operation using the microphone being executed, determine an editing section including unnecessary information in the first signal based on a voice recognition result for the second signal, and generate recording data by editing the unnecessary information included in the determined editing section in the first signal.

Electronic device and method for processing voice input and recording in the same

An electronic device includes an input device, a processor, and a memory The processor is configured to identify a first filter value of a first signal received from the input device. The processor is configured to receive a second signal after a first time elapses after the first signal is received. The processor is configured to receive a third signal after a second time elapses after the second signal is received. The processor is configured to compare a level of the second signal with a first threshold value for each of the at least one unit section of the second signal. The processor is configured to identify first information indicating that abnormal noise is present in a first section of the second signal. The processor is configured to perform filtering on the third signal based on the first filter value of the first signal according to the first information.

Electronic device and method for determining abnormal noise

An electronic device and method are provided. The method includes identifying a speech section of a user and a speech section of a neighbor in a received audio signal, identifying a user utterance in the speech section of the user and a neighbor answer to the user utterance in the speech section of the neighbor, obtaining preference information associated with the user utterance, giving a first reliability to the neighbor answer and a second reliability to an agent answer of an artificial intelligence agent generated in response to the user utterance, based on the preference information, not responding to the user utterance when the second reliability is lower than the first reliability, and outputting the agent answer when the second reliability is equal to or higher than the first reliability.

Electronic device for supporting artificial intelligence agent services to talk to users

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a microphone, a processor operatively connected to the microphone, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory, when executed, stores instructions for causing the processor to receive first speech data through the microphone, recognize a user input to call a voice assistant from the first speech data, convert the user input into a first wakeup score, determine the electronic device as a first reference device at least based on the first wakeup score that exceeds a designated threshold value, configure a first noise reduction space based on location information of the first reference device, determine at least one of one or more electronic devices, located in the first noise reduction space, as a first noise reduction device to perform a noise reduction operation, and control the noise reduction operation of the first noise reduction device.

Electronic device supporting improved speech recognition

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises a speaker, a plurality of microphones, at least one processor operatively connected with the speaker and the plurality of microphones, and a memory operatively connected with the at least one processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform speech audio processing or non-speech audio processing on audio signals received via the plurality of microphones, upon obtaining a non-speech audio signal based on the speech audio processing or the non-speech audio processing, identify a non-speech audio signal pattern corresponding to the non-speech audio signal, obtain a non-speech audio signal-based first command based on the identified non-speech audio signal pattern, and perform at least one action corresponding to the obtained non-speech audio signal-based first command.

Electronic device and controlling method using non-speech audio signal in the electronic device

According to an embodiment, disclosed is an electronic device including a speaker, a microphone, a communication interface, a processor operatively connected to the speaker, the microphone, and the communication interface, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first utterance through the microphone, to determine a speaker model by performing speaker recognition on the first utterance, to receive a second utterance through the microphone after the first utterance is received, to detect an end-point of the second utterance, at least partially using the determined speaker model. Besides, various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.

Method for user voice input processing and electronic device supporting same

An electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes a housing, at least one camera, a plurality of microphones configured to detect a direction of a sound source, at least one driver operable to rotate and/or move at least part of the housing, a wireless communication circuit, a processor operatively connected to the camera, the microphones, the driver, and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a user utterance, detect a first direction from which the user utterance originated, control the driver to rotate and/or move towards the first direction, a first image scan for the first direction and analyze the image for a presence of a user, when the user is not detected, rotate and/or move the at least part of the housing in a second direction, and perform a second image scan.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Hoseon Shin