Information processing system, control method for information processing system, information processing device, control method for information processing device, information storage medium, and program

• US 9,690,778 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2013
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Masuko, Soh
• Primary Examiner(s): GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X
• Application Number:
  US14/781,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20160299890A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/21 Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques; Extraction of features in feature space; Blind source separation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/53 Processing of non-Latin text kana-to-kanji conversion G06F40/129; vowelisation G06F40/232
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/95 structured as a network, e.g. client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/635 Overlay text, e.g. embedded captions in a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/287 of Kanji, Hiragana or Katakana characters
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals

Abstract

An information processing system is configured to: acquire a plurality of converted character strings one by one, each of the plurality of converted character strings having been converted from a corresponding one of a plurality of original character strings included in an original image; generate, each time a converted character string is acquired, a converted image representing the converted character string for the original image corresponding to the acquired converted character string; and change a content of a foreground of an arrangement area of the original image in an object to be displayed on a screen to the converted image.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of converted character strings one by one, each of the plurality, of converted character strings having been convened from a corresponding one of a plurality of original character strings, each of the plurality of original character strings being included in at least any one of one or more original images;

generation means for generating, each time one of the plurality of converted character strings is acquired, a converted image in which the acquired converted character string is arranged in an area corresponding to a display area of the original character string corresponding to the acquired converted character string in the original image including the original character string; and

changing means for changing, on a display device displaying at least a part of an object including one or more images on a screen based on display information, the original image corresponding to the converted image generated by the generation means in the object to the converted image,

wherein the acquisition means acquires the plurality of converted character strings one by one, each of the plurality of converted character strings corresponding to one of the plurality of original character strings, in accordance with an order that is based on priorities of the plurality of original character strings.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the priority is set by setting means based on at least any one of a display mode of the original character string and an arrangement position of the image including the original character string in the object.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the priority is set by setting means based on a visual characteristic amount of the original character string in the object displayed based on the display information.

4. The information processing system according to claim 2, further comprising the setting means.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, further comprising:

receiving means for receiving an acquisition request for any one of the images arranged in the foreground in the object from the display device, the display device transmitting the acquisition request at a predetermined timing for each image,

wherein the changing means changes, each time the acquisition request is received, the content of the foreground of the arrangement area of the image corresponding to the acquisition request in the object to a converted image, which is generated by the generation means and includes more convened character strings to be arranged than the image arranged in the foreground of the arrangement area.

6. The information processing system, according to claim 5, further comprising:

range information acquisition means for acquiring range information indicating a range in which the object is being displayed on the screen from the display device at a predetermined timing,

wherein the setting means decreases the priority of an original character string not included in the range indicated by the range information by at least one level.

7. The information processing system according to claim 2, further comprising:

receiving means for receiving an acquisition request for any one of the images arranged in the foreground in the object from the display device, the display device transmitting an acquisition request for the image corresponding to the original character string at a predetermined timing in accordance with an order that is based on the priority set by the setting means,

wherein the changing means changes, each time the acquisition request is received, the content of the foreground of the arrangement area of the image corresponding to the acquisition request in the object to a converted image, which is generated by the generation means and includes more converted character strings to be arranged than the image arranged in the foreground of the arrangement area.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the changing means incrementally changes the content of the foreground of the arrangement area of the original image, wherein the original image corresponds to the generated converted image in the object to the converted image.

9. A method executed by an image server which comprises a central processing unit, a storage unit and communication interface unit, the method comprising:

acquiring a plurality of converted character strings one by one, each of the plurality of converted character strings having been converted from a corresponding one of a plurality of original character strings, each of the plurality of original character strings being included in at least any one of one or more original images;

generating, each time one of the plurality of converted character strings is acquired, a converted image in which the acquired converted character string is arranged in an area corresponding to a display area of the original character string corresponding to the acquired converted character string in the original image including the original character string; and

changing, on a display device displaying at least a part of an object including one or more images on a screen based on display information, the original image corresponding to the converted image generated by the generation means in the object to the converted image,

wherein the acquiring step comprises acquiring the plurality of converted character strings one by one, each of the plurality of converted character strings corresponding to one of the plurality of original character strings, in accordance with an order that is based on priorities of the plurality of original character strings.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer, which comprises a central processing unit, a storage unit and communication interface unit, to function as:

acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of converted character strings one by one, each of the plurality of converted character strings having been converted from a corresponding one of a plurality of original character strings, each of the plurality of original character strings being included in at least any one of one or more original images;

generation means for generating, each time one of the plurality of converted character strings is acquired, a converted image in which the acquired converted character string is arranged in an area corresponding to a display area of the original character string corresponding to the acquired converted character string in the original image including the original character string; and

changing means for changing, on a display device displaying at least a part of an object including one or more images on a screen based on display information, the original image corresponding to the converted image generated by the generation means in the object to the converted image,

wherein the acquisition means acquires the plurality of converted character strings one by one, each of the plurality of converted character strings corresponding to one of the plurality of original character strings, in accordance with an order that is based on priorities of the plurality of original character strings.