Displaying Original Text in a User Interface with Translated Text

• US 20080082317A1
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chin, Jeffrey, Andryeyev, Anton, Rosart, Daniel, Otto, Owen, Teh, Sha-Mayn, Driesen, Karel, Hawkins, John
• Granted Patent: US 7,801,721 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 a request to translate a source document at a location from a first language text to a second language text;

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

displaying the first language text that corresponds to a portion of the translated document in a graphical element overlaying the translated document in response to a user pointing to the portion of the translated 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. A user interface on a display of a computing device, comprising:

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

a presentation area for displaying a translated 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 a user pointing to the portion of the second language text.

9. The user interface of claim 8, 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.

10. The user interface of claim 8, wherein the first language text is displayed in a tooltip over the second language text in the presentation area.

11. The user interface of claim 10, wherein the first language text is displayed in accordance with a title attribute of span tags delimiting the portion of the second language text.

12. The user interface of claim 8, wherein the translated document is displayed having a layout structure appropriate for the second language text.

13. The user interface of claim 8, 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.

14. The user interface of claim 13, wherein formatting of the text received in the second input section is preserved in the second language text displayed in the output section.

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

receiving requests in a user interface to translate a resource at a location from a first language text to a second language text;

communicating the requests to a translation engine;

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

displaying the translated 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.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, 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.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the tags having a title attribute set to the first language text.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 15, 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.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 15, 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.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 15, 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.