DISPLAY, SERVER, CONTROL PROGRAM FOR DISPLAY, AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR SERVER

• US 20190327373A1
• Filed: 04/10/2019
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Yu, Kazutoshi
• Granted Patent: US 10,728,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00498 Multi-lingual facilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00501 Tailoring a user interface [UI] to specific requirements

Abstract

A display capable of communicating with a server includes: an auxiliary storage that stores character information of a specific language, the character information including a character string contained in a screen when the screen is displayed; an acceptor that accepts selection of a language to be used in displaying the screen; a receiver that receives a translation result obtained by translating the character information of the specific language into a new language from the server when the language, selection of which has been accepted by the acceptor, is the new language different from the specific language; a hardware processor that stores, in the auxiliary storage, character information of the new language, the character information being created based on the translation result received by the receiver; and a display part that displays the screen based on the character information of the new language.

Claims

1. A display capable of communicating with a server, comprising:

an auxiliary storage that stores character information of a specific language, the character information including a character string contained in a screen when the screen is displayed;

an acceptor that accepts selection of a language to be used in displaying the screen;

a receiver that receives a translation result obtained by translating the character information of the specific language into a new language from the server when the language, selection of which has been accepted by the acceptor, is the new language different from the specific language;

a hardware processor that stores, in the auxiliary storage, character information of the new language, the character information being created based on the translation result received by the receiver; and

a display pan that displays the screen based on the character information of the new language.

2. The display according to claim 1, further comprising a requestor that requests the server to translate the character information of the specific language into the new language when the language, selection of which has been accepted by the acceptor, is the new language.

3. The display according to claim 2, further comprising:

a re-requestor that again requests the server to translate the character information of the specific language into the new language after the hardware processor stores the character information of the new language; and

a re-receiver that receives a translation result obtained by translating the character information of the specific language into the new language from the server when the re-requestor again performs a request,

wherein the hardware processor updates the character information of the new language stored in the auxiliary storage based on the translation result received by the re-receiver.

4. The display according to claim 2,

wherein the auxiliary storage stores character information of a plurality of kinds of languages as the character information of the specific language,

the hardware processor determines whether a language belonging to the same language system as a language system of the new language exists in the specific language when the language, selection of which has been accepted by the acceptor, is the new language, and

the requestor selects character information to be a translation source from the character information of the specific language based on a determination result from the hardware processor.

5. The display according to claim 4, wherein the requestor includes a first requestor that requests the server to translate character information of a language belonging to the same language system as a language system of the new language into the new language when the hardware processor determines that the language belonging to the same language system as the language system of the new language exists in the specific language.

6. The display according to claim 4, wherein the requester includes a second questor that requests the server to translate character information of two or more kinds of languages among the character information of the specific language into the new language when the hardware processor determines that the language belonging to the same language system as the language system of the new language does not exist in the specific language.

7. The display according to claim 2,

wherein the hardware processor changes a format of the character information of the specific language when a language, selection of which has been accepted by the acceptor, is a new language different from the specific language, and

the requestor requests the server to translate the character information of the specific language after the format is changed into the new language.

8. The display according to claim 1,

wherein the auxiliary storage stores character information of a plurality of kinds of languages as the character information of the specific language, and

the hardware processor does not reflect a translation result, which has been received by the receiver, of a character string having the same character information between two or more languages among the character information of the specific language to the character information of the new language.

9. The display according to claim 1, wherein the receiver further includes a requirer that requires the server to transmit the character information of the new language when the language, selection of which has been accepted by the acceptor, is the new language.

10. The display according to claim 1, further comprising another display part that displays the screen based on the character information of the specific language when the language, selection of which has been accepted by the acceptor, is the specific language.

11. A server capable of communicating with a display and with a translation server, comprising:

an auxiliary storage that stores character information of a specific language, the character information including a character string contained in a screen when the screen is displayed by the display;

a requirement acceptor that accepts requirement of transmitting character information of a new language different from the specific language from the display;

a requestor that requests the translation server to translate the character information of the specific language into the new language when the requirement acceptor accepts the requirement;

a receiver that receives a translation result obtained by translating the character information of the specific language into the new language from the translation server;

a hardware processor that stores character information of the new language formed based on the translation result received by the receiver in the auxiliary storage; and

a transmitter that transmits the character information of the new language to the display.

12. The server according to claim 11, further comprising:

a re-requestor that again requests the translation server to translate the character information of the specific language into the new language after the hardware processor stores the character information of the new language; and

a re-receiver that receives a translation result obtained by translating the character information of the specific language into the new language from the translation server when the re-requestor again performs a request,

wherein the hardware processor updates a language table of the new language based on the translation result received by the re-receiver, the language table being stored in the auxiliary storage.

13. A non-transitory recording medium storing a compiler readable control program for a display capable of communicating with a server,

the display including an auxiliary storage that stores character information of a specific language, the character information including a character string contained in a screen when the screen is displayed,

the control program causing a computer to perform:

accepting selection of a language to be used in displaying the screen;

receiving a translation result obtained by translating the character information of the specific language into a new language from the server when the language, selection of which has been accepted in the accepting, is the new language different from the specific language;

storing, in the auxiliary storage, character information of the new language, the character information being created based on the translation result received in the receiving; and

displaying the screen based on the character information of the new language.

14. A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable control program for a server capable of communicating with a display and with a translation sever,

the server including an auxiliary storage that stores character information of a specific language, the character information including a character string contained in a screen when the screen is displayed by the display,

the control program causing a computer to perform:

accepting requirement of transmitting character information of a new language different from the specific language from the display;

requesting the translation server to translate the character information of the specific language into the new language when the requirement is accepted in the accepting;

receiving a translation result obtained by translating the character information of the specific language into the new language from the translation server;

storing character information of the new language created based on the translation result received in the receiving in the auxiliary storage; and

transmitting the character information of the new language to the display.