Internationalization during navigation

• US 9,689,699 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2016
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nishikawa, Hirofumi, Watanabe, Shoichiro, Shioya, Tomohiro, Sugano, Kei
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEUNG, CALVIN K
• Application Number:
  US15/140,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20170059349A1
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3644 Landmark guidance, e.g. using POIs or conspicuous other objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• 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

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for internationalization of real-world features during navigation. The method includes receiving a request for navigation to a landmark in a particular language. The method further includes retrieving keywords from a database associated with the landmark, and scoring the keywords based on their level of recognition to a user. The highest ranked keywords are then sent to the user to navigate to the landmark.

Claims

1. A method for internationalization of navigation, the method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, from a requestor, a request comprising a target destination and a native language;

retrieving, by one or more processors, from a database, a plurality of keywords, wherein the plurality of keywords are associated with the native language and a destination language;

scoring, by one or more processors, each of the plurality of keywords;

determining, by one or more processors, whether a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords exceeds a threshold value;

responsive to determining that a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords exceeds the threshold value, translating, by one or more processors, the plurality of keywords from the destination language to the native language;

sending, by one or more processors, the translated plurality of keywords to the requestor, wherein the translated plurality of keywords are used to navigate to the target destination;

navigating, by one or more processors, to the target destination using GPS signals and the translated plurality of keywords;

receiving, by one or more processors, location information associated with a destination;

retrieving, by one or more processors, social media data associated with the destination, based on a native language of a user;

extracting, by one or more processors, a set of keywords associated with the destination;

translating, by one or more processors, the set of keywords associated with the destination to the native language; and

storing, by one or more processors, the translated set of keywords associated with the destination, in a database.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that a score associated with each of the plurality of keywords does not exceed the threshold value, retrieving, by one or more processors, from the plurality of keywords, a set of abstract keywords in the destination language; and

translating, by one or more processors, the set of abstract keywords in the destination language to the native language, wherein the translated set of abstract keywords are used to navigate to the target destination.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving, by one or more processors, from the database, a set of keywords related to the native language of the user;

retrieving, by one or more processors, from the database, a set of criteria associated with the set of keywords related to the native language of the user; and

calculating, by one or more processors, a navigation value for the set of keywords, wherein the navigation value is based in part on the native language of the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein scoring each of the plurality of keywords comprises:

retrieving, by one or more processors, a level of recognition of the plurality of keywords and a level of relevance of the plurality of keywords, wherein the level of recognition of the plurality of keywords is based in part on the native language of a user; and

generating, by one or more processors, a list of results, wherein each keyword from the list of results is associated with a recognition value score.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

ranking, by one or more processors, the translated plurality of keywords, based on an order of familiarity to a user; and

implementing, by one or more processors, a set of high ranked keywords as navigation keywords to navigate to the target destination.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating, by one or more processors, a plurality of visual features into a plurality of corresponding keywords, based in part on map information and social media data.