Machine translation system including separated side-by-side display of original and corresponding translated sentences

• US 5,351,189 A
• Filed: 10/01/1993
• Issued: 09/27/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kumano, Akira, Kawada, Tsutomu, Yamanaka, Noriko, Nogami, Hiroyasu, Iwai, Isamu, Okamoto, Toshio, Doi, Miwako, Miike, Seiji, Amano, Shin-ya, Takeda, Kimihito, Adachi, Hisahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): RUDOLPH, REBECCA
• Application Number:
  US08/130,416
• Time in Patent Office: 361 Days
• Field of Search: 395/148, 395/153, 395/157, 395/161, 364/419.02, 364/419.03, 364/419.05, 364/419.06, 364/419.1, 345/119, 345/115, 345/123
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory

Abstract

A machine translation system includes a translation processor, a display, and a display controller. The display has original and translated sentence display sections. The display controller has a display managing section and a display format controller. The translation processor translates a given original sentence by accessing a dictionary. The translated and original sentences are displayed in the translated and original sentence display sections, i.e., right and left display sections of the display. The original and translated sentences are managed by the display magaging section in predetermined units of translation processing. The display format controller controls the original and translated sentences such that start lines of a given group thereof are horizontally aligned with each other.

Claims

1. A machine translation apparatus comprising:

translation means for translating an original sentence, using a translation dictionary;

display means having left and right screen sections, one serving as an original sentence display region for displaying the original sentence, and the other as a translated sentence display region for displaying a translated sentence;

control means for controlling said display means to display the translated sentence and the original sentence corresponding to the translated sentence in juxtaposition on said translated sentence display region and said original sentence display region with the first lines of said translated sentence and said original sentence being horizontally aligned to each other so as to correspond to each other for each unit of sentence; and

scroll means including scroll designating means for designating a scrolling mode in which said original sentence and said translated sentence which are displayed on said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region, respectively, are scrolled downwards;

wherein, when said scrolling mode is designated by said scroll designating means, if a line of each of the original sentence and the translated sentence which is other than the first line thereof, is displayed on the uppermost line of each of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region, said scroll means scrolls said original sentence and said translated sentence in association with each other until the first lines are displayed on the uppermost lines of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region.

2. A machine translation apparatus comprising:

translation means for translating an original sentence, using a translation dictionary;

display means having right and left screen sections, one serving as an original sentence display region for displaying the original sentence, and the other as a translated sentence display region for displaying a translated sentence;

control means for controlling said display means to display the translated sentence and the original sentence, corresponding to the translated sentence, in juxtaposition on said translated sentence display region and said original sentence display region with the first lines of said translated sentence and said original sentence being horizontally aligned to each other so as to correspond to each other for each unit of sentence; and

scroll means including scroll designating means for designating a scrolling mode in which said original sentence and said translated sentence, which are displayed on said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region, respectively, are scrolled downwards;

wherein, when said scrolling mode is designated by said scroll designating means, if the first line of each of the original sentence and the translated sentence is displayed on the uppermost line of each of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence, said scroll means scrolls said original sentence and said translated sentence in association with each other until the first line of the previous sentence is displayed on the uppermost line of each of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region.

3. A machine translation apparatus comprising:

translation means for translating an original sentence, using a translation dictionary;

display means having right and left screen sections, one serving as an original sentence display region for displaying the original sentence, and the other as a translated sentence display region for displaying a translated sentence;

control means for controlling said display means to display the translated sentence and the original sentence, corresponding to the translated sentence, in juxtaposition on said translated sentence display region and said original sentence display region with the first lines of said translated sentence and said original sentence being horizontally aligned to each other so as to correspond to each other for each unit of sentence; and

scroll means including scroll designating means for designating a scrolling mode at which said original sentence and said translated sentence which are displayed on said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region, respectively, are scrolled upwards;

wherein, when said scrolling mode is designated by said scroll designating means, if a line of each of the original sentence and the translated sentence which is other than the first line thereof, is displayed on the lowermost line of each of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region, said scroll means scrolls said original sentence and said translated sentence in association with each other until the lowermost line of one of said original sentence and said translated sentence which has more lines than the other coincides with the lowermost line of the corresponding one of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region.

4. A machine translation apparatus comprising:

translation means for translating an original sentence, using a translation dictionary;

display means having two screen section divided on the left and right, one serving as an original sentence display region for displaying the original sentence, and the other as a translated sentence display region for displaying a translated sentence;

control means for controlling said display means to display the translated sentence and the original sentence, corresponding to the translated sentence, in juxtaposition on said translated sentence display region and said original sentence display region with the first lines of said translated sentence and said original sentence being horizontally aligned to each other so as to correspond to each other for each unit of sentence; and

scroll means including scroll designating means for designating a scrolling mode in which said original sentence and said translated sentence which are displayed on said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region, respectively, are scrolled upwards;

wherein, when said scrolling mode is designated by said scroll designating means, if the lowermost line of each of the original sentence and the translated sentence is displayed on the lowermost line of each of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region and following original and translated sentences exist after said original sentence and said translated sentence, said scroll means scrolls said original sentence and said translated sentence in association with each other until the lowermost line of one of said following original and translated sentences which has more lines than the other coincides with the lowermost line of the corresponding one of said original sentence display region and said translated sentence display region.