WO2019191877A1

WO2019191877A1 - Translation method, device and translation apparatus

Info

Publication number: WO2019191877A1
Application number: PCT/CN2018/081637
Authority: WO
Inventors: 叶丹
Original assignee: 深圳市沃特沃德股份有限公司
Priority date: 2018-04-02
Filing date: 2018-04-02
Publication date: 2019-10-10

Abstract

Provided are a translation method, device and a translation apparatus. The translation method comprises the following steps: establishing a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices (S11); dividing the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups (S12); receiving information sent by one group of the terminal devices (S13); translating the information (S14); transmitting the translated information to other groups of terminal devices (S15). According to the translation method, a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices is established, the plurality of terminal devices are grouped, and the information sent by one group of terminal devices is translated, and then sent to other groups of terminal devices. Therefore, the translation of multi-person dialogue (such as multi-person conference) is realized, and even communication between users in multiple languages can be realized, the application scenario of the translation apparatus is expanded, and the user experience is improved.

Description

Translation method, device and translation device

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of electronic technology, and in particular to a translation method, apparatus and translation apparatus.

Background technique

With the rapid development of the economy, foreign exchanges have become more and more extensive, and for many people, language barriers are a major obstacle to foreign exchanges. In order to solve the above problems, various translation devices have appeared on the market. With powerful language translation function, translation equipment is well received by people who have language translation needs, and it is also a good helper for people to learn foreign languages. The translation device can be translated during the dialogue between the two parties, so that users using different languages can communicate freely.

However, the existing translation equipment can only implement one-to-one translation, so it can only be applied to the scene of one-on-one dialogue, and for the scene of multi-person dialogue (such as multi-person conference), the existing translation equipment can't do anything.

technical problem

The main object of the present invention is to provide a set of translation methods, devices and translation devices, which are intended to implement translation in a multi-person conversation or a multi-person conference, and to extend the application scenario of the translation device.

Technical solution

To achieve the above objective, an embodiment of the present invention provides a translation method, where the method includes the following steps:

Establish a network connection with multiple terminal devices;

Dividing the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups;

Receiving information sent by one of the terminal devices;

Translating the information;

Send the translated information to other group terminal devices.

Optionally, the step of establishing a network connection with multiple terminal devices separately includes: establishing a mesh network with a plurality of terminal devices through Bluetooth, and establishing a network connection.

Optionally, the step of dividing the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups comprises: grouping according to a language set by the terminal device, and grouping terminal devices of the same setting language into a group.

Optionally, the step of performing translation processing on the information includes: translating the information into information of a language corresponding to other group terminal devices.

Optionally, the step of transmitting the translated information to the other group terminal device comprises: when the other group terminal devices have at least two groups, respectively sending the language set by the group terminal device to each group terminal device. Post-translation information.

Optionally, the step of performing translation processing on the information includes:

Transmitting the information to a server to cause the server to translate the information;

Receiving translated information sent by the server.

Optionally, the information is voice information.

Optionally, the terminal device is a mobile terminal.

The embodiment of the invention simultaneously provides a translation device, the device comprising:

a connection module, configured to establish a network connection with multiple terminal devices;

a grouping module, configured to divide the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups;

a receiving module, configured to receive information sent by one group of terminal devices;

a processing module configured to perform translation processing on the information;

The sending module is configured to send the translated information to other group terminal devices.

Optionally, the connection module is configured to: establish a mesh connection with a plurality of terminal devices by using Bluetooth, and establish a network connection.

Optionally, the grouping module is configured to group the terminal devices in the same setting language according to the language set by the terminal device.

Optionally, the processing module is configured to: translate the information into information of a language corresponding to the other group of terminal devices.

Optionally, the sending module is configured to: when the other group of terminal devices have at least two groups, send the translated information that matches the language set by the group of terminal devices to each group of terminal devices.

Optionally, the processing module includes:

a sending unit, configured to send the information to a server, to enable the server to translate the information;

The receiving unit is configured to receive the translated information sent by the server.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a translation apparatus including a memory, a processor, and at least one application stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor, the application being configured to perform the foregoing translation method .

Beneficial effect

A translation method is provided by the embodiment of the present invention, by establishing a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices, and grouping the plurality of terminal devices, and performing translation processing on the information sent by the group of terminal devices, and then transmitting the information to the other group terminal devices. Therefore, the translation of multi-person dialogue (such as multi-person conference) is realized, and even communication between users in multiple languages can be realized, the application scenario of the translation device is expanded, and the user experience is improved.

DRAWINGS

1 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a translation method of the present invention;

2 is a schematic diagram of connection between a translation device and a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a translation apparatus of the present invention;

4 is a block diagram of the processing module of FIG. 3.

The implementation, functional features, and advantages of the present invention will be further described in conjunction with the embodiments.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

It is understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

The embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below, and the examples of the embodiments are illustrated in the drawings, wherein the same or similar reference numerals are used to refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting.

The singular forms "a", "an", "the" It is to be understood that the phrase "comprise" or "an" Integers, steps, operations, components, components, and/or groups thereof. It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "coupled" to another element, it can be directly connected or coupled to the other element. Further, "connected" or "coupled" as used herein may include either a wireless connection or a wireless coupling. The phrase "and/or" used herein includes all or any one and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. It should also be understood that terms such as those defined in a general dictionary should be understood to have meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the prior art, and will not be idealized or excessive unless specifically defined as here. The formal meaning is explained.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the "terminal" and "terminal device" used herein include both a wireless signal receiver device, a device having only a wireless signal receiver without a transmitting capability, and a receiving and transmitting hardware. A device having a device capable of performing two-way communication receiving and transmitting hardware on a two-way communication link. Such devices may include cellular or other communication devices having a single line display or a multi-line display or a cellular or other communication device without a multi-line display; PCS (Personal Communications) Service, personal communication system), which can combine voice, data processing, fax and/or data communication capabilities; PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), which can include radio frequency receiver, pager, Internet/Intranet access, network Browser, notepad, calendar and/or GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver; conventional laptop and/or palmtop computer or other device with and/or conventional lap including radio frequency receiver Type and / or palmtop or other device. As used herein, "terminal", "terminal device" may be portable, transportable, installed in a vehicle (aviation, sea and/or land), or adapted and/or configured to operate locally, and/or Run in any other location on the Earth and/or space in a distributed form. The "terminal" and "terminal device" used herein may also be a communication terminal, an internet terminal, a music/video playing terminal, and may be, for example, a PDA, a MID (Mobile Internet Device), and/or have a music/video playback. Functional mobile phones can also be smart TVs, set-top boxes and other devices.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the server used herein includes, but is not limited to, a computer, a network host, a single network server, a plurality of network server sets, or a cloud composed of a plurality of servers. Here, the cloud is composed of a large number of computers or network servers based on Cloud Computing, which is a kind of distributed computing, a super virtual computer composed of a group of loosely coupled computers. In the embodiment of the present invention, communication can be implemented by any communication means between the server, the terminal device and the WNS server, including but not limited to, mobile communication based on 3GPP, LTE, WIMAX, and computer network communication based on TCP/IP and UDP protocols. And short-range wireless transmission based on Bluetooth and infrared transmission standards.

The translation method and device of the embodiment of the present invention are mainly applied to a translation device, and the translation device may be a translation device, or may be a terminal device such as a mobile phone, a tablet, or a personal computer.

Referring to Figure 1, an embodiment of a translation method of the present invention is proposed, the method comprising the steps of:

S11. Establish a network connection with multiple terminal devices.

S12. Divide a plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups.

S13. Receive information sent by one group of terminal devices.

S14. Translating information into the processing.

S15. Send the translated information to other group terminal devices.

In step S11, the translation device establishes a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices, and the terminal device may be a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a tablet, or may be another electronic device. In the embodiment of the present invention, the translation device and the terminal device have a Bluetooth function, and the translation device includes a mesh function bluetooth module, so that a mesh network can be established with a plurality of terminal devices through Bluetooth to establish a network connection. The terminal device performs mesh networking by acquiring the network key (Netkey) given by the translation device, and the terminal device becomes a node in the mesh network. Each node in the mesh network has at least one network key, which is the network secret. The key makes it a member of the corresponding network.

In other embodiments, the translation device and the terminal device may also establish a network connection through a wireless communication network such as wifi or zigbee.

In step S12, the translation device groups the plurality of terminal devices that access the mesh network, and may be divided into two groups or may be divided into multiple groups. As shown in FIG. 2, the translation device divides the terminal device into two groups of A and B, each group has four terminal devices, and the translation device is respectively connected with each terminal device of the two groups A and B.

Optionally, the user can set the language used by the user on the terminal device, the translation device groups according to the language set by the terminal device, and the terminal devices in the same language are grouped into one group. For example, the Chinese and the Japanese meet together. The Chinese set the language of their terminal device to Chinese. The Japanese set the language of their terminal device to Japanese, and the translation device divides the terminal device into two groups. The setting language is Chinese. The terminal devices are a group, and the terminal devices whose language is Japanese are set as a group.

In step S13, when a certain user corresponding to a group of terminal devices speaks, the corresponding terminal device receives the information input by the user, and sends the received information to the translation device, and the translation device receives the information sent by the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the information is voice information, and the terminal device collects the voice information sent by the user through the microphone, converts the voice information from the analog signal into a digital signal through the Bluetooth baseband chip, and compresses the digital signal into data, and passes the specific The communication protocol is transmitted to the translation device.

In some embodiments, the information may also be text information, and the terminal device receives the text information input by the user through a keyboard (virtual keyboard or a physical keyboard), and transmits the text information to the translation device through a specific communication protocol.

In step S14, the translation device may perform offline translation of the information locally, or may send the information to the server for online translation. For example, the translation device sends the information to be translated to the server, and the server translates the information, and sends the translated information to the server. Translating the device, the translation device receives the translated information returned by the server.

When the information to be translated is voice information, the voice information is first recognized as text information by voice recognition technology, and then the text information is translated from the current language into a language corresponding to other group terminal devices. If there are at least two groups of terminal devices in other groups, the text information is translated into at least two languages respectively. Further, the translated text information can also be synthesized into voice information by voice synthesis technology.

When the information to be translated is text information, the text information is directly translated from the current language to the language corresponding to the other group terminal devices. If there are at least two groups of terminal devices in other groups, the text information is translated into at least two languages respectively. Further, the translated text information can also be synthesized into voice information by voice synthesis technology.

In step S15, the translation device sends the translated information to the other group terminal devices. When the other group terminal devices have at least two groups, respectively, each group of terminal devices is sent a translation corresponding to the language set by the group of terminal devices. Information.

For example, suppose the terminal devices are divided into three groups, and the languages set are English, Japanese, and Chinese. When the Chinese user speaks, the translation device translates the speech information into English and Japanese respectively, and sends the English information to a group of terminal devices whose language is set to English, and transmits the Japanese information to a group of terminal devices whose language is Japanese.

After the terminal device receives the translated information, it outputs the information. When the translated information is voice information, the terminal device outputs the voice information through a speaker, an earphone or a handset; when the translated information is text information, the terminal device displays the text information through the display screen.

The translation method of the embodiment of the present invention establishes a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices, and groups the plurality of terminal devices, and performs translation processing on the information sent by the group of terminal devices, and then sends the information to the other group terminal devices, thereby realizing The translation of multi-person conversations (such as multi-person conferences) can even realize the communication between users of multiple languages, expand the application scenarios of translation equipment, and enhance the user experience.

Referring to FIG. 3, an embodiment of a translation apparatus of the present invention is provided. The apparatus includes a connection module 10, a grouping module 20, a receiving module 30, a processing module 40, and a sending module 50. The connecting module 10 is configured to be connected to multiple terminals. The device establishes a network connection; the grouping module 20 is configured to divide the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups; the receiving module 30 is configured to receive information sent by one of the terminal devices; and the processing module 40 is configured to perform translation processing on the information; Module 50 is configured to send the translated information to other group terminal devices.

The connection module 10 establishes a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices, and the terminal device may be a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or a tablet, or may be another electronic device. In the embodiment of the present invention, the translation device and the terminal device have a Bluetooth function, and the translation device includes a mesh function bluetooth module, so that a mesh network can be established with a plurality of terminal devices through Bluetooth to establish a network connection. The terminal device performs mesh networking by acquiring the network key (Netkey) given by the translation device, and the terminal device becomes a node in the mesh network. Each node in the mesh network has at least one network key, which is the network secret. The key makes it a member of the corresponding network.

In other embodiments, the connection module 10 and the terminal device may also establish a network connection through a wireless communication network such as wifi or zigbee.

The grouping module 20 groups the plurality of terminal devices that access the mesh network, and may be divided into two groups or may be divided into multiple groups. As shown in FIG. 2, the grouping module 20 divides the terminal device into two groups of A and B, each group having four terminal devices, and the translation device is connected to each terminal device of the two groups A and B through the connection module 10, respectively.

Optionally, the user can set the language used by the user on the terminal device, and the grouping module 20 groups according to the language set by the terminal device, and groups the terminal devices in the same setting language into one group. For example, the Chinese and the Japanese meet together. The Chinese set the language of their terminal device to Chinese, the Japanese set the language of their terminal device to Japanese, and the grouping module 20 divides the terminal device into two groups. The setting language is Chinese. The terminal devices are a group, and the terminal devices in the Japanese language are set as a group.

When a certain user corresponding to a group of terminal devices speaks, the corresponding terminal device receives the information input by the user, and transmits the received information to the translation device, and the receiving module 30 receives the information sent by the terminal device.

The processing module 40 can perform offline translation of the information locally or send it to the server for online translation. As shown in FIG. 4, the processing module 40 includes a sending unit 41 and a receiving unit 42, wherein: the sending unit 41 is configured to send information to be translated to the server to enable the server to translate the information; and the receiving unit 42 is configured to receive the server. Translated information sent.

The sending module 50 sends the translated information to the other group terminal devices. When the other group terminal devices have at least two groups, the translated information matching the language set by the group terminal device is respectively sent to each group terminal device.

For example, suppose the terminal devices are divided into three groups, and the languages set are English, Japanese, and Chinese. When the Chinese user speaks, the processing module 40 translates the speech information into English and Japanese respectively, and the sending module 50 sends the English information to a group of terminal devices whose language is set to English, and sends the Japanese information to the setting language for Japanese. A group of terminal devices.

The translation apparatus of the embodiment of the present invention establishes a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices, and groups the plurality of terminal devices, performs translation processing on the information sent by the group of terminal devices, and transmits the information to the other group terminal devices, thereby realizing The translation of multi-person conversations (such as multi-person conferences) can even realize the communication between users of multiple languages, expand the application scenarios of translation equipment, and enhance the user experience.

The invention also proposes a translation device comprising a memory, a processor and at least one application stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor, the application being configured to perform a translation method. The translation method includes the steps of: establishing a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices; dividing the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups; receiving information transmitted by one of the terminal devices; translating the information; and transmitting the translated information to Other group terminal equipment. The translation method described in this embodiment is the translation method involved in the foregoing embodiment of the present invention, and details are not described herein again.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention includes apparatus that is directed to performing one or more of the operations described herein. These devices may be specially designed and manufactured for the required purposes, or may also include known devices in a general purpose computer. These devices have computer programs stored therein that are selectively activated or reconfigured. Such computer programs may be stored in a device (eg, computer) readable medium or in any type of medium suitable for storing electronic instructions and coupled to a bus, respectively, including but not limited to any Types of disks (including floppy disks, hard disks, optical disks, CD-ROMs, and magneto-optical disks), ROM (Read-Only Memory), RAM (Random Access Memory), EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only) Memory, rewritable programmable read only memory), EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, flash memory, magnetic card or light card. That is, a readable medium includes any medium that is stored or transmitted by a device (eg, a computer) in a readable form.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that each block of the block diagrams and/or block diagrams and/or flow diagrams and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or block diagrams and/or flow diagrams can be implemented by computer program instructions. . Those skilled in the art will appreciate that these computer program instructions can be implemented by a general purpose computer, a professional computer, or a processor of other programmable data processing methods, such that the processor is executed by a computer or other programmable data processing method. The blocks of the disclosed structure and/or block diagrams and/or flow diagrams or blocks specified in the various blocks.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the steps, measures, and solutions in the various operations, methods, and processes that have been discussed in the present invention may be alternated, changed, combined, or deleted. Further, other steps, measures, and schemes of the various operations, methods, and processes that have been discussed in the present invention may be alternated, modified, rearranged, decomposed, combined, or deleted. Further, the steps, measures, and solutions in the prior art having various operations, methods, and processes disclosed in the present invention may also be alternated, changed, rearranged, decomposed, combined, or deleted.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and the equivalent structure or equivalent process transformations made by the description of the invention and the drawings are directly or indirectly applied to other related The technical field is equally included in the scope of patent protection of the present invention.

Claims

A translation method that includes the following steps:

Establish a network connection with multiple terminal devices;

Dividing the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups;

Receiving information sent by one of the terminal devices;

Translating the information;

Send the translated information to other group terminal devices.
The translation method according to claim 1, wherein the step of establishing a network connection with a plurality of terminal devices respectively comprises:

Establish a mesh network with multiple terminal devices via Bluetooth to establish a network connection.
The translation method according to claim 1, wherein said step of dividing said plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups comprises:

The grouping devices of the same setting language are grouped according to the language set by the terminal device.
The translation method according to claim 3, wherein said step of performing translation processing on said information comprises:

Translating the information into information of a language corresponding to other group terminal devices.
The translation method according to claim 4, wherein the step of transmitting the translated information to the other group of terminal devices comprises:

When the other group terminal devices have at least two groups, the translated information matching the language set by the group terminal device is respectively sent to each group terminal device.
The translation method according to claim 1, wherein said step of performing translation processing on said information comprises:

Transmitting the information to a server to cause the server to translate the information;

Receiving translated information sent by the server.
The translation method according to claim 1, wherein the information is voice information.
The translation method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device is a mobile terminal.
A translation device comprising:

a connection module, configured to establish a network connection with multiple terminal devices;

a grouping module, configured to divide the plurality of terminal devices into at least two groups;

a receiving module, configured to receive information sent by one group of terminal devices;

a processing module configured to perform translation processing on the information;

The sending module is configured to send the translated information to other group terminal devices.
The translation apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the connection module is configured to establish a mesh connection by establishing a mesh network with a plurality of terminal devices via Bluetooth.
The translation apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the grouping module is configured to group the terminal devices of the same setting language into groups according to a language set by the terminal device.
The translation apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said processing module is configured to translate said information into information of a language corresponding to another group of terminal devices.
The translation apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said transmitting module is configured to: when the other group of terminal devices has at least two groups, respectively transmit a translation matching the language set by the group of terminal devices to each group of terminal devices. After the information.
The translation device of claim 9, wherein the processing module comprises:

a sending unit, configured to send the information to a server, to enable the server to translate the information;

The receiving unit is configured to receive the translated information sent by the server.
The translation apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the information is voice information.
The translation apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said terminal device is a mobile terminal.
A translation device includes a memory, a processor, and at least one application stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor, wherein the application is configured to perform the method of claim 1. The translation method described.