TRANSLATION AND DISPLAY OF TEXT IN PICTURE

• US 20080233980A1
• Filed: 03/22/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Lessing, Simon, Englund, Hakan Mats
• Granted Patent: US 8,144,990 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/10 Image acquisition document image scanning and transmission H04N1/00; control of digital cameras H04N23/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/62 Text, e.g. of license plates, overlay texts or captions on TV images
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/142 using hand-held instruments; Constructional details of the instruments

Abstract

A method performed by a mobile terminal may include receiving an image that includes text, translating the text into another language and superimposing and displaying the translated text over the received image.

Claims

1. A method performed by a mobile terminal comprising:

receiving an image that includes text;

translating the text into another language; and

superimposing and displaying the translated text over a portion of the received image.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing optical character recognition (OCR) processing on the received image.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising

receiving input from a user selecting a language for performing the OCR processing.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving input from a user selecting the another language.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the received image includes at least one of a digital image or a video stream.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the translated text is displayed in a more prominent manner that the text in the received image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the translating the text into another language is performed by a server and wherein the displaying the translated text over a portion of the received image is displayed on the mobile terminal.

8. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a camera configured to produce an image;

a display; and

logic configured to;

receive the image from the camera,

perform optical character recognition (OCR) on the image to produce text,

translate the text into another language, and

control the display to display the translated text.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the logic is further configured to:

superimpose and display the translated text over at least a portion of the received image.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the logic is further configured to:

receive a selection of a language associated with the OCR processing.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the logic is further configured to:

receive a selection of the another language.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the logic is further configured to:

display the translated text in substantially the same size as text within the received image.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the logic is further configured to:

display the text in the received image in a dimmed or less prominent manner than the translated text.

14. A method performed by a mobile terminal comprising:

receiving an image;

performing optical character recognition (OCR) processing on the received image to produce text in a first language;

translating the text in the first language into text in a second language;

displaying the received image in a dimmed manner; and

superimposing and displaying the text in the second language over the displayed received image.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving a selection identifying the first and second languages.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the performing OCR processing on the received image is performed by a server.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the displaying the text in the second language comprises displaying the text on the mobile terminal located remotely from the server.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

transmitting the received image to the server.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

transmitting text in the first language from the server to the mobile terminal.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the superimposed and displayed text in the second language includes more than one size of text.