Process and device for translation

• US 20020198700A1
• Filed: 10/10/2001
• Published: 12/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pierre Mestre
• Original Assignee: Pierre Mestre
• Inventors: Mestre, Pierre
• Granted Patent: US 6,999,915 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/45 Example-based machine translation; Alignment
• 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

The present invention relates to a process and a device for translation of words and/or expressions from at least one language of origin into at least one destination language, in which, for each word or expression in at least one language of origin, and for each destination language, are provided simultaneously at least:

a first phonetic writing of the translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, and

a second phonetic writing of said translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, said second phonetic writing being different from said first phonetic writing.

Claims

1. Process for the translation of words and/or expressions from at least one language of origin, into at least one destination language, in which process, for each word or expression in at least one language of origin, and for each destination language, are supplied simultaneously at least:

a first phonetic writing of the translation of said word or said expression into said destination language, and

a second phonetic writing of said translation of said word or said expression into said destination language, said second phonetic writing being different from said first phonetic writing.

2. Process according to claim 1, in which are provided, on the same page, in at least one language of origin, an assembly of words and/or expressions relating to the same situation in which the user may find himself and, for each word or expression, its translation into at least one destination language.

3. Process according to claim 1, in which is provided on the same page, for each word or expression in at least one language of origin, a translation into at least two different languages.

4. Process according to claim 1, said process comprising an operation of selecting an assembly of words and/or expressions in at least one language of origin, an operation of selecting at least one destination language, and an operation of placing facing each other the assembly of words and/or expressions in each language of origin, and a page comprising a translation in each destination language, of all the words and expressions.

5. Process according to claim 1, in which is provided on the same page, for each word or expression, its translation into at least two destination languages.

6. Process according to claim 1, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or said expression into said destination language, is in English.

7. Process according to claim 1, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or said expression into said destination language, is in a language of origin of said word or of said expression.

8. Process according to claim 1, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or said expression into said destination language, is in the international phonetic alphabet.

9. Process according to claim 1, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or said expression into said destination language, is in Spanish.

10. Device for translating words and/or expressions from at least one language of origin into at least one destination language, comprising a written information support, which displays simultaneously, for each word or expression in at least one language of origin, and for each destination language, at least:

a first phonetic writing of the translation of said word or said expression into said destination language, and

a second phonetic writing of said translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, said second phonetic writing being different from said first phonetic writing.

11. Device according to claim 10, in which the information support provides, on the same page, in at least one language of origin, an assembly of words and/or expressions relating to the same situation in which the user may find himself, and their translations into at least one destination language.

12. Device according to claim 10, in which the information support provides, on the same page, for each word or expression in at least one language of origin, a translation into at least two languages.

13. Device according to claim 10, characterized in that it comprises at least a selection means of an assembly of words and/or expressions in at least one language of origin, a selection means of at least one destination language, and means for placing facing each other the assembly of words and/or expressions in each language of origin, at a page comprising the translation in each destination language, of all the words and expressions in the language of origin.

14. Device according to claim 10, in which the information support provides, for each word or expression, on the same page, the translation of said word or said expression into at least two destination languages.

15. Device according to claim 10, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, is in English.

16. Device according to claim 10, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, is in the language of origin of said word or of said expression.

17. Device according to claim 10, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, is in the international phonetic alphabet.

18. Device according to claim 10, in which one of the first and second phonetic writings of the translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, is in Spanish.

19. A book for translating words and/or expressions from at least one language of origin into at least one destination language, which book provides, for each word or expression in at least one language of origin, and for each destination language, on the same page or on two successive pages of which the first has an even numeral, at least:

a first phonetic writing of the translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, and

a second phonetic writing of said translation of said word or of said expression into said destination language, said second phonetic writing being different from said first phonetic writing.