METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMODAL CONTENT TRANSLATION

• US 20110112821A1
• Filed: 11/11/2009
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: BASSO, ANDREA, Gibbon, David, Shahraray, Behzad, Liu, Zhu, Renger, Bernard S.
• Application Number:
  US12/616,550
• Publication Number:
  US 20110112821A1
• 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

In one embodiment, the present disclosure is a method and apparatus for multimodal content translation. In one embodiment, a method for translating content includes receiving the content via a first modality, extracting at least one verbal component and at least one non-verbal component from the content, and translating the at least one verbal component and the at least one non-verbal component into translated content, where the translated content is in a form for output in a second modality.

Claims

1. A method for translating content, the method comprising:

receiving the content via a first modality;

extracting at least one verbal component and at least one non-verbal component from the content; and

translating the at least one verbal component and the at least one non-verbal component into translated content, where the translated content is in a form for output in a second modality.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second modality is different from the first modality.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second modality is a same modality as the first modality.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

outputting the translated content in the second modality.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

filtering the translated content in accordance with at least one preference prior to the outputting.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a source of the content comprises at least one social networking application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a source of the content comprises at least one communication device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a source of the content comprises at least one sensor.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first modality comprises at least one of:

a visual modality, an audible modality, and a tactile modality.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second modality comprises at least one of:

a visual modality, an audible modality, and a tactile modality.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the content comprises feedback received in response to presented content that is delivered to a group of recipients.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the translated content is output to a source of the presented content.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the translated content is output to the group of recipients.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

continuously monitoring a communication device of a user for the content.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one non-verbal component comprises at least one of:

a punctuation, a capitalization, a grammatical characteristic, a tone of voice, a facial expression, a gesture, and a force with which a source of the content interacts with an input device.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the second modality is selected by a source of the content.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the second modality is selected to conform to at least one capability of a device to which the translated content is to be output.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the translating further comprises:

modifying at least one of the at least one verbal component and the at least one non-verbal component based on an instruction in the content.

19. A computer readable storage medium containing an executable program for translating content, where the program performs steps of:

receiving the content via a first modality;

extracting at least one verbal component and at least one non-verbal component from the content; and

translating the at least one verbal component and the at least one non-verbal component into translated content, where the translated content is in a form for output in a second modality.

20. An apparatus for translating content, comprising:

means for receiving the content via a first modality;

means for extracting at least one verbal component and at least one non-verbal component from the content; and

means for translating the at least one verbal component and the at least one non-verbal component into translated content, where the translated content is in a form for output in a second modality.