Samsung patents voice assistant that changes replies based on timing
Samsung describes an electronic device that sends voice commands to a server and displays the resulting text responses. The system tracks how quickly a user speaks a follow-up command after the first response appears. It uses this timing to decide whether to include previous conversation history in the next reply, displaying the result differently depending on the speed of the user's input.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic apparatus, method, and computer readable medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, and a controller. The controller, based on a first voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including first response information corresponding to the first voice input from a server, and outputs the first response information on a display, and based on a second voice input being received, controls the communicator to receive data including second response information corresponding to the second voice input from the server, and outputs the second response information on the display. Based on whether the second voice input is received within a predetermined time from a time corresponding to the output of the first response information, whether a use of utterance history information is identified, and the second response information is displayed differently based on whether the second voice input is received within the predetermined time.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a communicator; and a controller configured to: based on a first voice input being received, control the communicator to receive data comprising first response information corresponding to the first voice input from a server and output the first response information on a display, and based on a second voice input being received, control the communicator to receive data comprising second response information corresponding to the second voice input from the server and output the second response information on the display, wherein based on whether the second voice input is received within a predetermined time from a time corresponding to the output of the first response information, whether a use of utterance history information is identified, and wherein the second response information is displayed differently based on whether the second voice input is received within the predetermined time.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING VARYING RESPONSE BASED ON CONTENTS INCLUDED IN INPUT, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260331123A1
- Application number
- 19365382
- Filed
- Oct 22, 2025
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 12
Classified under
G10L 21/06 Physics & computingG10L 15/22 Physics & computingH04M 3/4936 Electricity & electronicsG10L 2015/223 Physics & computingH04M 2203/355 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in AI & software
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