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Apparatus and method for translating visual text

  • US 20010032070A1
  • Filed: 12/28/2000
  • Published: 10/18/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A portable translator for translating a first visual text in a first language into a second visual text in a second language, the portable translator comprising:

  • (a) a viewfinder for aiming the portable translator in a selectable direction and from a selectable distance at an object whereupon the first visual text appears, and for identifying an image including a target area containing the first visual text;

    (b) an electro-optical image acquisition unit including a lens and a light-sensitive sensor operative to acquiring a digital representation of said target area;

    (c) an OCR unit operative to transforming said digital representation into a first string of character codes representative of the first visual text;

    (d) a translator unit including an electronic dictionary, said translator unit operative to transforming said first string of character codes into a second string of character codes representative of the second visual text; and

    (e) a display operative to showing the second visual text in accordance with said second string.

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