Language translation with head-worn computing

• US 10,146,772 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2017
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC (Magic Leap, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Osterhout Design Group
• Inventors: Osterhout, Ralph F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh, Jack
• Application Number:
  US15/494,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20170337187A1
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 359630
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0156 with optionally usable elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0176 characterised by mechanical features
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/06 Hearing aids construction of hearing aids H04R25/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 2200/06 Locking elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 2200/18 Adjustment ridges or notches
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 5/124 for vertically varying the position of the lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention relate to language translation systems for head-worn computers.

Claims

1. A language translation system, comprising:

a head-worn computer including a microphone system and an audio communication system, wherein the head-worn computer is adapted to record a first spoken utterance of a first person wearing the head-worn computer, convert the first spoken utterance into a language other than a first spoken language represented by the first spoken utterance, forming translated language;

a speaker adapted to produce sound intensity such that a person at a conversational distance can hear a sound at a conversational level, the speaker in communication with the head-worn computer through the audio communication system; and

the head-worn computer further adapted to communicate the translated language to the speaker and displaying, in a see-through head-worn display mechanically supported by the head-worn computer, a visual representation of a second spoken language representing a second spoken utterance of a second person;

wherein the speaker produces sound less than 80 db at a distance of 5 feet from the speaker.

2. The language translation system of claim 1, wherein the audio communication system is a wired system providing audio signals to the speaker.

3. The language translation system of claim 1, wherein the audio communication system is a wireless system providing audio signals to the speaker.

4. The language translation system of claim 1, wherein the speaker produces sound of less than 40 db at a distance of 5 feet from the speaker.

5. The language translation system of claim 1, wherein the speaker produces sound of less than 60 db at a distance of 5 feet from the speaker.

6. The language translation system of claim 1, wherein the head-worn computer is further adapted to convert the first spoken utterance and the second spoken utterance into the translated language, wherein the translated language has an audible spectrum based on the first person'"'"'s and the second person'"'"'s spoken utterances.

7. The language translation system of claim 6, wherein the audible spectrum is determined through an analysis of a spoken utterances spectrum, wherein the analysis results in a one of a plurality of tones to be used when communicating the translated language to the speaker.

8. The language translation system of claim 7, wherein the one of the plurality of tones is at least one of a high male tone, mid-tone male, low male tone, high female tone, mid-tone female, low female tone.

9. The language translation system of claim 1, wherein the speaker is mechanically adapted to fit into a shirt pocket of the first person.

10. The language translation system of claim 1, wherein the speaker is mechanically adapted to clip onto a shirt of the first person.