Display of translations in an interleaved fashion with variable spacing

• US 20030061022A1
• Filed: 09/21/2001
• Published: 03/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Reinders, James R.
• Application Number:
  US09/962,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20030061022A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• 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

A method to display a language translation includes displaying a word of a first language on an information display and displaying a first translation of the word of the first language into a second language proximate to the word of the first language. A second translation of the word of the first language into the second language may be displayed beneath the first translation of the word of the first language. The first translation of the word is displayed in a first color, which is different from a color used to display the word.

Claims

1. A method to display language translation, comprising:

displaying a word of a first language on an information display; and

displaying on the information display, a first translation of the word of the first language into a second language proximate to the word of the first language, wherein the first translation of the word is displayed in a first color which is different from a color used to display the word.

2. Said method of claim 1, wherein the first translation of the word into the second language is displayed beneath the word of the first language.

3. Said method of claim 1, wherein the first translation of the word into the second language is displayed above the word of the first language.

4. Said method of claim 1, a second translation of the word of the first language into the second language displayed beneath the first translation of the word of the first language.

5. Said method of claim 4, wherein the second translation of the word is displayed in a second color chosen to indicate a lower probability of translation accuracy than achieved with the first translation.

6. Said method of claim 4, further comprising:

selecting between the first translation and the second translation of the word, wherein only a translation selected remains displayed.

7. A computer readable medium containing executable computer program instructions, which when executed by a data processing system, cause the data processing system to perform a method, comprising:

displaying a word of a first language on an information display; and

displaying on the information display, a first translation of the word of the first language into a second language proximate to the word of the first language, wherein the first translation of the word is displayed in a first color which is different from a color used to display the word.

8. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 7, wherein the first translation of the word into the second language is displayed beneath the word of the first language.

9. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 7, wherein the first translation of the word into the second language is displayed above the word of the first language.

10. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 7, wherein the word of the first language contains letters.

11. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 7, wherein the word of the first language contains numbers.

12. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 7, wherein a second translation of the word of the first language into the second language displayed beneath the first translation of the word of the first language.

13. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 12, wherein the second translation of the word is displayed in a second color chosen to indicate a lower probability of translation accuracy than achieved with the first translation.

14. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 12, wherein the method further comprises:

selecting between the first translation and the second translation of the word, wherein only a translation selected remains displayed.

15. Said computer readable medium as set forth in claim 7, wherein a context of the word is used to increase a probability of achieving high translation accuracy.

16. An apparatus to display a language translation, comprising:

means for displaying a word of a first language on an information display; and

means for displaying on the information display, a first translation of the word of the first language into a second language proximate to the word of the first language, wherein the first translation of the word is displayed in a first color which is different from a color used to display the word.

17. Said apparatus of claim 16 further comprising:

means for displaying a second translation of the word of the first language into the second language beneath the first translation of the word of the first language.

18. Said apparatus of claim 16, wherein the first translation of the word into the second language is displayed beneath the word of the first language.

19. Said apparatus of claim 16, wherein a context of the word is used to increase a probability of achieving high translation accuracy.

20. An apparatus to display a language translation, comprising:

a processor;

a memory to communicate with said processor;

a display driver to communicate with said processor, wherein said apparatus to arrange a word of a first language and to arrange a first translation of the word of the first language into a second language to be displayed proximate to the word of the first language, wherein the first translation of the word is displayed in a first color which is different from a color used to display the word.

21. Said apparatus of claim 20, further comprising an information display, wherein the word of the first language and the language translation of the word into the second language are displayed thereon.

22. An apparatus to display a language translation, comprising:

a processor;

a memory to communicate with said processor;

a computer readable medium coupled with said processor; and

a process to display a language translation executed from said computer readable medium by said processor, wherein said process to display a word of a first language on an information display and to display, on the information display, a first translation of the word of the first language into a second language proximate to the word of the first language, wherein the first translation of the word is displayed in a first color which is different from a color used to display the word.

23. Said apparatus of claim 22, further comprising an information display.

24. Said apparatus of claim 22, wherein the first translation of the word into the second language is displayed beneath the word of the first language.

25. Said apparatus of claim 22, a second translation of the word of the first language into the second language displayed beneath the first translation of the word of the first language.

26. Said apparatus of claim 22, wherein a context of the word is used to increase a probability of achieving high translation accuracy.