Displaying original text in a user interface with translated text

• US 7,801,721 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Issued: 09/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Otto, Owen, Teh, Sha-Mayn, Driesen, Karel, Andryeyev, Anton, Rosart, Daniel, Chin, Jeffrey, Hawkins, John
• Primary Examiner(s): ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS
• Application Number:
  US11/537,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082317A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,450 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• 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

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for user interaction with machine translation. A user interface for receiving requests to translate text and/or documents from a first language text to a second language text. The translated text and/or document is displayed such that the first language text corresponding to a selected portion of the second language text can be accessed and displayed in the same user interface.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

communicating, using one or more processors, a request to translate a source web document at a location from a first language text to a second language text, the request including a uniform resource locator corresponding to the source web document;

receiving a translated web document containing a translation of the source web document into the second language text;

displaying the translated web document; and

displaying the first language text that corresponds to a portion of the translated web document in a graphical element overlaying the translated web document in response to a user pointing to the portion of the translated web document.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising;

displaying the first language text after a predetermined period of time has elapsed after the user points to the portion of the translated document;

removing the display of the first language text after a second predetermined period of time has elapsed after a user ceases to point to the portion of the translated document; and

canceling the removal the display of the first language text if the user again points to the portion of the translated document before the second predetermined period of time has elapsed.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the first language text in the graphical element in accordance with a title attribute of span tags delimiting the portion of the translated text.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the translated document is at least one of a word, a sentence or a paragraph.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising reformatting the translated document in a structure appropriate for the second language text.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising displaying the translated document based on information contained in style attributes associated with the second language text and graphical elements in the translated document.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical element is a tooltip.

8. The method of claim 1, where displaying the translated web document includes reformatting a structure of the translated web document based on a particular language of the second language text.

9. The method of claim 8, where reformatting the structure of the translated web document includes changing a direction of the second language text.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an input selecting a language pair corresponding to the first language text and the second language text.

11. A system comprising:

one or more processors configured to interact with a computer-readable storage medium in order to perform operations including presenting a user interface on a display of a computing device, the user interface comprising;

an input area for receiving a location of a web document to be translated from a first language text to a second language text; and

a presentation area for displaying a translated web document in the second language text, wherein the first language text that corresponds to a portion of the second language text is displayed in a graphical element within the presentation area in response to a user pointing to the portion of the second language text.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the first language text is displayed after a predetermined period of time has elapsed after the user points to the portion of the second language text, and wherein the first language text display is removed after a second predetermined period of time has elapsed after the user ceases to point at the portion of the second language text.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the first language text is displayed in a tooltip over the second language text in the presentation area.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the first language text is displayed in accordance with a title attribute of span tags delimiting the portion of the second language text.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the translated document is displayed having a layout structure appropriate for the second language text.

16. The system of claim 11, further comprising a second input section for receiving text to be translated from the first language text to the second language text, wherein the user interface displays the second language text in an output section and error messages suggesting an appropriate first language text based on the text received in the second input section.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein formatting of the text received in the second input section is preserved in the second language text displayed in the output section.

18. A computer readable medium storing instructions that upon execution by a processing device cause the processing device to perform operations, comprising:

receiving a request in a user interface to translate a source web document at a location from a first language text to a second language text, the request including a uniform resource locator corresponding to the source web document;

communicating the request to a translation engine;

receiving a translated web document in the second language text wherein predetermined portions of the second language text in the translated web document are delimited by tags;

displaying the translated web document in the user interface; and

displaying the first language text that corresponds to one of the predetermined portions of the second language text in a graphical element overlaying the second language text in the user interface in response to a user pointing to the one of the predetermined portions of the second language text.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18, storing further instructions that upon execution by the processing device cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

displaying the first language text in the graphical element after a predetermined period of time has elapsed after the user points to the one of the predetermined portions of the second language text; and

removing the first language text after a second predetermined period of time elapses.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the tags having a title attribute set to the first language text.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 18, storing further instructions that upon execution by the processing device cause the processing device to perform operations comprising displaying the first language text in a tooltip over the second language text.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 18, storing further instructions that upon execution by the processing device cause the processing device to perform operations comprising displaying a top panel area adjacent to the translated document within the user interface.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 18, storing further instructions that upon execution by the processing device cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

displaying an input region for receiving text to be translated from the first language text to the second language text;

displaying a output region for display the text in the second language text; and

displaying an error identification region for providing a suggested first language text based on the text received in the input region.