Displaying original text in a user interface with translated text

• US 9,547,643 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2013
• Issued: 01/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Rosart, Daniel, Otto, Owen, Chin, Jeffrey, Teh, Sha-Mayn, Hawkins, John, Andryeyev, Anton, Driesen, Karel
• Primary Examiner(s): ALBERTALLI, BRIAN LOUIS
• Application Number:
  US14/066,037
• Publication Number:
  US 20140058720A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,176 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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:

receiving, using one or more processors, a user request to translate a source document from a first language text to a second language text;

obtaining, using the one or more processors, a translated document containing a translation of the source document into the second language text;

formatting, using the one or more processors, the translated document based on the second language;

presenting, using the one or more processors, the translated document to the user, wherein the formatting is used to present the translated document;

in response to the user pointing to a portion of the translated document;

presenting, using the one or more processors, the first language text that corresponds to a portion of the translated document in a graphical element overlaying the translated document; and

highlighting, using the one or more processors, the portion of the translated document.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, using the one or more processors, the first language text after a predetermined period of time has elapsed after the user points to the portion of the translated document;

removing, using the one or more processors, the graphical element after a second predetermined period of time has elapsed after a user ceases to point to the portion of the translated document; and

canceling, using the one or more processors, the removal of the graphical element 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, wherein presenting the first language text that corresponds to the portion of the translated document in the graphical element overlaying the translated document comprises transmitting the first language text to a client device for display at the client device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein formatting the translated document based on the second language comprises formatting the translated document to read from right-to-left when the second language is read right-to-left.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user request includes receiving a uniform resource locator in a field of a presented translation interface and an identification of the second language.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user request includes receiving the source document and an identification of the second language.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user request to translate the source document comprises receiving a Uniform Resource Locator corresponding to the source document.

8. A system comprising:

one or more computing devices configured to perform operations including;

receiving a user request to translate a source document from a first language text to a second language text;

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

formatting the translated document based on the second language;

presenting the translated document to the user, wherein the formatting is used to present the translated document;

in response to the user pointing to a portion of the translated document;

presenting the first language text that corresponds to a portion of the translated document in a graphical element overlaying the translated document; and

highlighting the portion of the translated document.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

presenting 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 graphical element 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 of the graphical element if the user again points to the portion of the translated document before the second predetermined period of time has elapsed.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein presenting the first language text that corresponds to the portion of the translated document in the graphical element overlaying the translated document comprises transmitting the first language text to a client device for display at the client device.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein formatting the translated document based on the second language comprises formatting the translated document to read from right-to-left when the second language is read right-to-left.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein receiving the user request includes receiving a uniform resource locator in a field of a presented translation interface and an identification of the second language.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein receiving the user request includes receiving the source document and an identification of the second language.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein receiving the user request to translate the source document comprises receiving a Uniform Resource Locator corresponding to the source document. receiving the source document and an identification of the second language.

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

receiving a user request to translate a source document from a first language text to a second language text;

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

formatting the translated document based on the second language;

presenting the translated document to the user, wherein the formatting is used to present the translated document;

in response to the user pointing to a portion of the translated document;

presenting the first language text that corresponds to a portion of translated document in a graphical element overlaying the translated document; and

highlighting the portion of the translated document in response to the user pointing to the portion of the translated document.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

presenting 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 graphical element 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 of the graphical element if the user again points to the portion of the translated document before the second predetermined period of time has elapsed.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein presenting the first language text that corresponds to the portion of the translated document in the graphical element overlaying the translated document comprises transmitting the first language text to a client device for display at the client device.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein formatting the translated document based on the second language comprises formatting the translated document to read from right-to-left when the second language is read right-to-left.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein receiving the user request includes receiving the source document and an identification of the second language.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein receiving the user request to translate the source document comprises receiving a Uniform Resource Locator corresponding to the source document.