ES2235636A1 - Individual simultaneous translator used as translator and mobile phone has multi-language translation unit in communication with control unit, that communicates with individual translators and acts simultaneously on outgoing speech - Google Patents

Abstract

A control unit converts the received oral information into language of user. A multi-language translation unit in a remote information supply center (11) and in communication with control unit, communicates with individual translators and acts simultaneously on outgoing speech such that the information supplied by a user reaches the other interlocutor in own language.

Description

Individual simultaneous translator.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to an apparatus simultaneous translator specially conceived as an element of individual use, small in size, conveniently portable, than in your simplest version is able to transform the information that receive in a certain language in another language too default, but that in a more sophisticated version allows select between several input languages and also several languages output

The object of the invention thus constitutes a device capable of receiving spoken information, either from the medium environment or through a telephone line, in a language unknown to the user of the device, transforming said oral information to another language that is intelligible to the user of such device.

The device can carry the information corresponding to the dictionary or dictionaries necessary for fulfill its function, or you can receive this information at distance, from a remote translation module, so that said module can be used in combination by a plurality of users

Background of the invention

The international exchange, in all its various aspects, political, social, technical, economic, cultural and its constant intensification makes it increasingly necessary for people knowledge of languages to be able to relate to People of different culture.

Knowledge of languages is a task nothing easy, which is often adversely affected by personal inability to do so, lack of time or opportunity, professional or work incompatibility, or other causes very diverse, so that a majority of the population is not going beyond mastering his native language, thus spoiling many times great opportunities for recruitment, transmission development of personal knowledge and skills, which due to the impossibility of fluid communication in any language is restricted, finally damaged or lost, with the consequent damage for all.

Especially the knowledge of travel languages, personal or telephone conversations and Conferences or meetings.

To date and only when the situation allows to absorb considerable costs, translators are used specialized that, simultaneously to the intervention of a person in a certain language, perform the corresponding simultaneous translation so that the message can be received and captured by those who do not know the language of who is intervening

Obviously have people capable of carrying out this type of simultaneous translation is difficult and It is a solution that is available to very few.

Description of the invention

The individual simultaneous translator that the invention proposes solves in a fully satisfactory manner the above-mentioned problem, materializing in a simple device that, as such, eliminates all dependence on people who must act " in situ ", as simultaneous translators, and many costs more accessible allow the user to even select several languages, as noted above.

The simultaneous translator, structured under any conception, essentially that of a translator device, preferably incorporate the corresponding technology to a mobile phone, with the necessary accessories for your transformation in the alleged simultaneous translator. so that this new mobile phone is able to capture the conversation of higher tone of the environment, identifying at the same time and automatically the language in which it is being produced, translating it simultaneously to another language previously selected and providing said information in the new language to the user of the telephone, staying in this situation of means of capture environmental sound until a call occurs telephone, in any circumstance automatically happens to have priority over the collection of ambient sound in the area and with effects equivalent to the first case, that is, making a simultaneous translation when the call originates from a language different from what the translator user speaks or understands simultaneous.

So and according to the above exposed, the new device will integrate a mobile phone of any conventional type, such as GSM, CPRS, UMTS, etc. duly connected to a control module that receives information of an infiltrated conversation recognition module dominant as well as a translation module multi-language, to which they will be associated different dictionaries or idiomatic submodules, one for each of the languages that are planned to be used with the translator.

However, the possibility that the aforementioned multi-language translation module, in its case with their corresponding dictionaries, be oblivious to the apparatus of the invention itself, remaining stable in any remote place, with which the device is connectable in any moment using the same system GSM, CPRS, UMTS, etc, of the Usually used in mobile telephony.

In this way a double objective is achieved, by one side dramatically lighten the information from which it should arrange the device, by placing out of it the extensive information available to multiple dictionaries cited, and by other side that said information is accessible to more than one device individual translator, multiple devices being able to connect to your moment to a common exchange, where the control module is located With their dictionaries.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of said description; a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows, according to a representation schematic in perspective, an example of practical materialization of an individual simultaneous translator made in accordance with the object of the present invention.

Figure 2.- Shows a block diagram basic corresponding to the simultaneous translator of the figure above, according to a first embodiment variant in the that the multi-language translation module is integrated into the device itself.

Figure 3.- Shows a block diagram similar to the one in the previous figure, but corresponding to a second embodiment variant in which the translation module Multi-language is foreign to the device.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In the figures outlined, specifically in the Figures 1 and 2, an individual simultaneous translator appears in which a housing (1), of similar size and configuration to that of a mobile phone, with its corresponding keyboard (2), microphone (3) and earpiece (4), the latter conveniently distanced from the housing (1) and related to it by means of a cable (5) to allow, in parallel, the coupling of the headset (4) in one of the holes of the user's ear, fixing the housing (1) to any suitable place in your body, such as a belt, a shirt pocket, etc.

Inside the housing (l) and according to the scheme of figure 2, a control module (6) will be established capable of receiving two types of sound sources, one corresponding to the environmental voice in the vicinity of the device, through of a module (7) for recognition and filtering of the conversation direct and dominant, such as a lecturer, a person who is speaking to a translator user, etc., but the control module (6) can also receive oral information a through the module (8) of the mobile phone itself, as a consequence of receiving a phone call, always having preference this telephone entry over the entrance environmental in module (7), that is, taking place automatically the module connection (8) when a phone call, and returning again to the situation of disconnection, also automatically, with the new connection of the environmental module (7), at the end of the call.

In any case the control module (6) is also assisted by a translation module multi-language (9) that you can incorporate your own dictionary, or be assisted, as in the example represented in the Figure 2, with a series of dictionaries (10 '), (10' '), (10 n), selectively usable for respective languages and whose. number will be both greater than the expected functional capacity for The simultaneous translator.

In accordance with the above and of according to the simplest embodiment variant for the translator, the translation module (9) will incorporate a single dictionary (10), such as English language, so that if the user of the simultaneous translator only knows the language Spanish, both the information in English received through the module (7), as through module (8), will eventually reach said user, through the handset (4), in Spanish.

More sophisticated devices allow you to have multiple languages or dictionaries (10 '), (10' '), (10 n), so that a Spanish user can use the simultaneous translator to the English language when you are in a country with this language, or select different languages, such as French, German, etc., when you are in other countries or meeting with people from different languages, in any case, obviously through the use of simultaneous reciprocal translators, a perfect understanding between any two or more people, despite that none of them is knowledgeable about the language spoken by remaining.

According to the embodiment variant represented in the diagram of figure 3, the apparatus (1) incorporates exclusively the control module (6), also capable of receiving two types of sound sources, one corresponding to the environmental voice in the vicinity of the device, through a module (7) recognition and filtering of direct conversation and dominant, such as a lecturer, a person who is talking to the user of the device, etc., and another through the own module (8) of the mobile phone, while the rest of the system elements, that is the translation module multi-language (9), with their corresponding dictionaries (10), (10 '), (10' '), ..., and (10 n), relating to different languages and selectively usable, it is foreign to own translator device (1), being able to be established, in a remote center (11) of information provision, which using the same communication channels as mobile telephony, as per example GSM, GPRS, UMTS, etc. systems, mentioned above, allows the user of the device (1) to receive at any time the information of said unit (11), in the language corresponding to any of the dictionaries (10) available.

Obviously this alternative allows to have of broader dictionaries and in greater numbers than in the case of Figure 2, no data storage problems inside of the translator itself, and also the information used It can be used simultaneously by countless users.

Claims (5)

1. Individual simultaneous translator, specially designed to allow its user to receive orally in their own language any message spoken in a different language, characterized by incorporating, within a housing (1), preferably equivalent to that of any conventional mobile phone, a control module (6) assisted by a multi-language translation module (9), so that said control module (6) is capable of transforming the oral message received by the translator into any one of the languages (10 '), (10''), (10 n) provided as complementary dictionaries of the multi-language translation module (9), in the language of the translator's user, who accesses the latter through the headset (4) of the device. 2. Individual simultaneous translator, according to claim 1, characterized in that the control module (6) is assisted by a module (7) for recognition and filtering of the dominant conversation in the environment of the apparatus, module (7) capable of making the sound independent predominant in the rest environment and to identify the language to which this dominant conversation corresponds. 3. Individual simultaneous translator, according to claim 1, characterized in that the control module (6) is assisted by a mobile telephone module (8), so that the translator acts simultaneously as a mobile telephone, with the particularity that when it reaches the same a phone call in a language different from that of the user, the control module (6) identifies said language and causes the simultaneous translation of the content of the call, so that it reaches the translator's user in their own language. 4. Individual simultaneous translator, according to previous claims, characterized in that the mobile telephone module (8) has priority over the module (7) for recognition and filtering of the dominant environmental conversation, so that in a connection situation for the module (7) ) the automatic disconnection of the same takes place and the automatic connection of the telephone module (8), upon receipt of a telephone call, also automatically reversing the functional position of said modules (7) and (8) when the telephone call is interrupted. 5. Individual simultaneous translator, according to previous claims, characterized in that the multi-language translation module (9), together with the dictionaries (10), (10 '), (10''), ..., (10 ^ { n}), who assist you, are physically independent of the individual translator device (1) and are located in a remote location, preferably in a center (11) for providing information, in a permanent possibility of communication with a plurality of individual translators ( 1), through any suitable wireless communication system such as GSM, CPRS, UMTS, or other.