Translation display apparatus

• US 8,682,642 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2011
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Onishi, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Huyen X.
• Application Number:
  US13/281,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20120116750A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: 704 1- 10, 704/251, 704/252, 704/255, 704/257, 704/277, 704/270, 704/270.1, 382/229
• US Class Current: 704/3
• 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

In a translation display apparatus, when an instruction to enlarge and display a part of an image of a translated sentence-added document displayed on a display unit is inputted from a display instruction input section, a partially-enlarged image creating section creates a partially-enlarged image in which a part of the image of a translated sentence-added document is enlarged. Under the control of a control section, an image creating section creates a partial enlargement-added image which is an image obtained by superimposing the partially-enlarged image created by the partially-enlarged image creating section on the image of the translated sentence-added document. Under the control of the control section, the display unit displays the partial enlargement-added image.

Claims

1. A translation display apparatus comprising:

a document image acquiring section that acquires a document image of a document containing a sentence composed of a plurality of lines in a first language;

a character recognizing section that extracts a text area from the document image, recognizes first language characters included in the extracted text area, and specifies positions of the first language characters in the document image;

a translated language character string creating section that creates a translated language character string by translating an original character string which is a first language character string including the first language characters recognized by the character recognizing section, into a second language;

a translated language character string positioning section that places the translated language character string so as to be in a position which is close to the original character string and in inter-line space between first language character strings in the document image, based on the positions of the first language characters specified by the character recognizing section;

an image creating section that creates an image of a translated sentence-added document in which the translated language character string is disposed in the document image at the position placed by the translated language character string positioning section;

a display section that displays the image of the translated sentence-added document created by the image creating section;

an enlargement display instruction input section that receives an instruction to enlarge and display a part of the image of the translated sentence-added document displayed on the display section;

a partially-enlarged image creating section that creates a partially-enlarged image in which a part of the image of the translated sentence-added document is enlarged on the basis of the instruction inputted from the enlargement display instruction input section; and

a control section that controls the image creating section and the display section, the control section controlling the image creating section to create a partial enlargement-added image which is an image obtained by superimposing the partially-enlarged image on the image of the translated sentence-added document, and controlling the display section to display the partial enlargement-added image when the instruction of enlargement display is inputted from the enlargement display instruction input section,

wherein the partially-enlarged image creating section creates the partially-enlarged image by adding the original character string to the position in the interline space between first language character strings in the image of the translated sentence-added document in an edible state, and

the control section controls the image creating section to create the partial enlargement-added image by superimposing the partially-enlarged image, to which the original character string is added in an edible state, on the image of the translated sentence-added document and controls the display section to display the partial enlargement-added image.

2. The translation display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the partially-enlargement image creating section creates the partially-enlarged image so that an enlargement factor of an inter-line part in the image of the translated sentence-added document is greater than an enlargement factor of the other part thereof.

3. The translation display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a correction instruction input section that receives an instruction to correct the original character string which is added to the partially-enlarged image in an editable state,

the translated language character string creating section creating a new translated language character string by translating the original character string corrected based on the instruction inputted from the correction instruction input section into the second language,

the partially-enlarged image creating section creating a partially-enlarged image in which the new translated language character string is disposed, and

the control section controlling the image creating section to create a partial enlargement-added image by superimposing the partially-enlarged image having the new translated language character string disposed therein on the image of the translated sentence-added document, and controlling the display section to display the partial enlargement-added image.

4. A translation display apparatus comprising:

a document image acquiring section that acquires a document image of a document containing a sentence composed of a plurality of lines in a first language;

a character recognizing section that extracts a text area from the document image, recognizes first language characters included in the extracted text area, and specifies positions of the first language characters in the document image;

a translated language character string creating section that creates a translated language character string by translating an original character string which is a first language character string including the first language characters recognized by the character recognizing section, into a second language;

a translated language character string positioning section that places the translated language character string so as to be in a position which is close to the original character string and in inter-line space between first language character strings in the document image, based on the positions of the first language characters specified by the character recognizing section;

an image creating section that creates an image of a translated sentence-added document in which the translated language character string is disposed in the document image at the position placed by the translated language character string positioning section;

a storage section that stores an image of a translated sentence-added document every time the image creating section creates an image of a translated sentence-added document;

a translated language character string changing area extracting section that compares an image of a translated sentence-added document last stored in the storage section with an image of a translated sentence-added document stored previously thereto and extracts a translated language character string changing area indicating an area in which the translated language character string is different from the image of a translated sentence-added document last stored;

an emphasized translated language character string creating section that creates an emphasized translated language character string by recognizing a translated language character string included in the translated language character string changing area extracted by the translated language character string changing area extracting section and emphasizing the recognized translated language character string; and

a display section that displays an image in which the emphasized translate character string is superimposed on the translated language character string changing area of the image of a translated sentence-added document last stored.