SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUAL SCREEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION

• US 20140188455A1
• Filed: 12/29/2012
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: John J. Valavi
• Inventors: MANUSELIS, NICHOLAS M., VALAVI, JOHN J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,501,472 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• 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: H04R 1/406 microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/11 Transducers incorporated or for use in hand-held devices, e.g. mobile phones, PDA's, camera's
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/15 Transducers incorporated in visual displaying devices, e.g. televisions, computer displays, laptops

Abstract

Generally, this disclosure provides systems and methods to facilitate real-time language translation between two speakers. A system may include an audio beamforming microphone configured to detect speech in a first language from a first speaker and to detect speech in a second language from a second speaker; a language translation module configured to translate the speech in the first language to text in the second language and to translate the speech in the second language to text in the first language; and a display element configured with a first display element side and a second display element side and further configured to display the text in the first language on the first display element side and to display the text in the second language on the second display element side.

Claims

1. A system to facilitate language translation, said system comprising:

a dual-sided display element;

an audio beamforming microphone to detect speech of a first user and a second user, and to provide said detected speech to a language translation module; and

said language translation module to receive said detected speech from said microphone and further to;

translate said speech of said first user from a first language to text in a second language;

translate said speech of said second user from said second language to text in said first language;

provide said text in said first language to said display element, to be displayed on a first side of said display element; and

provide said text in said second language to said display element, to be displayed on a second side of said display element.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said first side of said display element is oriented such that said first side is viewable by said first speaker and said second side of said display element is oriented such that said second side is viewable by said second speaker.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said first side of said display element and said second side of said display element are disposed on opposing sides of said display element.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said audio beamforming microphone is further configured to steer a first audio beam in a direction towards said first speaker and to steer a second audio beam in a direction towards said second speaker.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said first and said second audio beams are to reduce background noise and improve language translation accuracy.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein said first audio beam is to enable detection of said speech from said first speaker and said second audio beam is to enable detection of said speech from said second speaker.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising an input module to enable a user to configure said language translation module by selecting said first and said second languages from a plurality of languages available for translation.

8. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed by a processor result in the following operations to facilitate language translation, said operations comprising:

detecting speech in a first language from a first speaker;

detecting speech in a second language from a second speaker;

translating said speech in said first language to text in said second language;

translating said speech in said second language to text in said first language;

displaying said text in said first language on a first side of a dual-sided display element; and

displaying said text in said second language on a second side of said dual-sided display element.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein said first display element side is oriented such that said first speaker views said first display element side and said second display element side is oriented such that said second speaker views said second display element side.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, further comprising the operation of steering a first audio beam in a direction towards said first speaker and steering a second audio beam in a direction towards said second speaker.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein said first and said second audio beams reduce background noise and improve language translation accuracy.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein said first audio beam enables detection of said speech from said first speaker and said second audio beam enables detection of said speech from said second speaker.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, further comprising the operation of selecting said first and said second languages from a plurality of languages available for translation.

14. A platform comprising:

a processor;

an input/output module coupled to said processor;

a memory coupled to said processor;

an audio beamforming microphone coupled to said processor and configured to detect speech in a first language from a first speaker and to detect speech in a second language from a second speaker;

a language translation module coupled to said processor and configured to translate said speech in said first language to text in said second language and to translate said speech in said second language to text in said first language; and

a display element coupled to said processor and configured with a first display element side and a second display element side and further configured to display said text in said first language on said first display element side and to display said text in said second language on said second display element side.

15. The platform of claim 14, wherein said first display element side is oriented such that said first display element side is viewable by said first speaker and said second display element side is oriented such that said second display element side is viewable by said second speaker.

16. The platform of claim 14, wherein said first display element side and said second display element side are disposed on opposing sides of said display element.

17. The platform of claim 14, wherein said audio beamforming microphone is further configured to steer a first audio beam in a direction towards said first speaker and to steer a second audio beam in a direction towards said second speaker.

18. The platform of claim 17, wherein said first and said second audio beams are to reduce background noise and improve language translation accuracy.

19. The platform of claim 17, wherein said first audio beam is to enable detection of said speech from said first speaker and said second audio beam is to enable detection of said speech from said second speaker.

20. The platform of claim 14, wherein said platform is selected from the group consisting of a laptop computing device, a tablet, a notebook and a smartphone.