WO2000045288A2 - Dispositif de traduction informatisé - Google Patents

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WO2000045288A2
WO2000045288A2 PCT/IL2000/000060 IL0000060W WO0045288A2 WO 2000045288 A2 WO2000045288 A2 WO 2000045288A2 IL 0000060 W IL0000060 W IL 0000060W WO 0045288 A2 WO0045288 A2 WO 0045288A2
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Jacob Fromer
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Priority to JP2000596476A priority patent/JP2002536720A/ja
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
    • G09B19/00—Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass
    • G09B19/06—Foreign languages

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  • the present invention generally relates to computerized translators.
  • computerized self-teaching apparatus there are presently available the kind known as "Electronic Dictionaries". These devices comprise a keyboard and a display screen. Words entered in one given language will be displayed on the screen translated into another language according to the programming of the device. More advanced apparatuses include an additional audio feature of producing, through suitable electronic circuitry and built-in speaker, the spoken sounds of the translated word.
  • dictionary apparatus comprising a first database file of words in a given
  • phonetic syllables means for the suitable selection of the source and target languages, means for inputting a selected word included in the first
  • Fig. 1 illustrates the general design of an apparatus featuring the
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the apparatus sub-systems
  • Fig. 3 is a flow-chart of the apparatus operations
  • Fig. 4 is an example of use of the method as applied to a specific word
  • Fig. 5 illustrates the morphing process.
  • the proposed apparatus generally designated A is similar to any known electronic translator; it necessarily comprises keyboard B for entering words in the language of origin, suitable keys C for selecting indexed library databases, source language, etc.; and other functional control buttons D, e.g., target language selector; a first LQ screen E for displaying the entered as well as translated words; and, as required for the implementation of the present invention - a second LQ screen G on which the movements of the speech organs are displayed, as will be described in greater detail hereinbelow, and speaker F.
  • keyboard B for entering words in the language of origin
  • suitable keys C for selecting indexed library databases, source language, etc.
  • other functional control buttons D e.g., target language selector
  • a first LQ screen E for displaying the entered as well as translated words
  • a second LQ screen G on which the movements of the speech organs are displayed, as will be described in greater detail hereinbelow, and speaker F.
  • the audio function, represented by the speaker F is not essential to the implementation of the invention, although the incorporation thereof seems natural and preferable in the present context.
  • the apparatus comprises the following main software applications: User's interface 10, data processor 12, ROM memory 14 and output interface 16.
  • the user's interface comprises data input unit 20 for converting the data inputted by keyboard B into a textual form, possibly including spell checker function; and a database file selector 22 for interpreting commands entered by language selector buttons C and D (Fig. 1 ) to select source or target languages from vocabulary database files 24 of the ROM memory application 14.
  • the data processor 12 comprises data searching engine 26, applicable for searching database files according to index or file ID-field names, or for matching records of any two or more database files by index or common ID-fields, using data integrator 28.
  • the ROM memory application 14 comprises the above mentioned vocabulary database files 24. It contains a vocabulary of words in a given language available for selection by index or by alphabetical order; the index of each database is linked to other databases, to create mutual matching.
  • Word pronunciation database files 30 contains records of textual phonetic pronunciation, composed of basic syllables for every word included in the vocabulary.
  • Images of mouth articulation database files 32 contains records of sequential image sets of all basic phonetic syllables.
  • Key-point sets of mouth images database files 34 contain records of all key-points sets of mouth images, outlining the first and the last image of each syllable.
  • Image morphing generator 36 is also included for creating transient images, preferably by buffer 38 (see below).
  • the output interface application 16 is used for presenting the translation results to the user in a visual form and, optionally, also in audio form (speaker driver 40), and comprises text display driver 42 and mouth articulation display driver 44.
  • the first step of the user is to select out of all available languages programmed into the apparatus A the language that he/she determined as the source or origin language, and the desired target language.
  • the database file selector 22 selects the matching source vocabulary database file from database files 24.
  • Data input unit 20 is applied for inputting the words by keyboard B.
  • the selected word is displayed on screen E using text display driver 44, and is located by the data search engine 26 in the selected source language vocabulary database files 24.
  • the user selects the target language for the English translation. Let us further assume that the word "HELLO" has been retrieved as the translation of "BONJOUR".
  • Database file selector 22 selects the English language vocabulary database file from vocabulary database files 24, using the data integrator 28 for matching between source and the target vocabulary database files.
  • the translated word is being now matched by data integrator 28 with the corresponding textual pronunciation keys stored in database files 30 containing the basic phonetic syllables of which every word is composed.
  • the word "HELLO" is composed of two basic phonetic syllables: h and I , as represented in Fig. 4.
  • each one of the basic syllables is matched with the associated set of mouth articulation images, as stored in the mouth articulation database files 32 (schematically presented as a series of ellipses).
  • Fig. 1 the relevant sets of mouth articulation images, (employing visual display driver 42) a visual presentation of the word pronunciation is presented, concurrently with the audio production of the word. It is advisable that the duration of each image appearance will be controllable, and also that each syllable separately could be repeated as many times as desired.
  • mouth articulation image sets may not yield a streamlined pictorial presentation, but rather appear as a step-wise animation.
  • the apparatus is provided with an image morphing generator 36, whose function is to attain full, smooth and realistic demonstration of word pronunciation.
  • image morphing generator 36 which is known per-se and need not to be described in greater detail
  • transient or dynamically changing images are created. These transient images are dynamically and intermediately
  • the apparatus may comprise a database file of sequential image sets demonstrating the pronunciation of all complete word belonging to the selected language. This again will dictate an unreasonably large database and therefore disadvantageous compared with the other possibilities as described in detail hereinabove.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif de traduction / dictionnaire informatisé comprenant un écran supplémentaire (G) et un logiciel approprié, permettant d'afficher, en plus de la forme textuelle correspondant au terme trouvé/traduit, les mouvements de la bouche pour prononcer ce terme.
PCT/IL2000/000060 1999-01-31 2000-01-30 Dispositif de traduction informatisé WO2000045288A2 (fr)

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EP00901314A EP1149349A2 (fr) 1999-01-31 2000-01-30 Dispositif de traduction informatis
AU21270/00A AU2127000A (en) 1999-01-31 2000-01-30 Computerized translating apparatus
JP2000596476A JP2002536720A (ja) 1999-01-31 2000-01-30 電子翻訳装置

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IL12829599A IL128295A (en) 1999-01-31 1999-01-31 Computerized translator displaying visual mouth articulation

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