Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Linguistics – Translation machine
Reexamination Certificate
1998-06-23
2003-02-18
Edouard, Patrick N. (Department: 2654)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Linguistics
Translation machine
C704S003000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06522999
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an output control apparatus, and can be applied to a hypermedia system for processing data with words, text, image, voice, etc. associated with each other.
2. Description of the Related Art
According to the conventional technology, when an original text screen has a link structure on a machine-translated text screen, the link structure can be embedded in an optional position on the translated text screen. For example, when original text contains a hyperlink, the hyperlink is embedded at an appropriate position in the translated text for display.
On such a translated text screen, the hyperlink in the translated text can be processed by performing the same operation as the hyperlink in the original text.
However, on the conventional machine-translated text screen, a document referred to by a hyperlink embedded in the original text is written in the language of the original text. Therefore, if the hyperlink of the original text is simply embedded in the translated text, the referred-to document is also written in the language of the original text. As a result, the document written in the language of the original text is displayed when a hyperlink in the translated text is processed.
In this case, documents written in different languages can be alternately displayed on the same screen, thereby often confusing the users.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention aims at providing an output control apparatus capable of displaying the original information and relevant information in the same data type.
The present invention includes a process type information obtaining unit for obtaining process type information for use in converting the first data into the second data; a relevant information obtaining unit for obtaining the third data relevant to the first data; and a relevant information conversion unit
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for converting the third data into the fourth data.
If data is converted between the first data and the second data, the converting process performed on the first data can also be performed on the third data relevant to the first data so that the third data relevant to the first data can be output in the same data type as the second data.
According to an aspect of the present invention, a process type indicates a translating process or a dictionary searching process.
Therefore, when a hyperlink in the original text is processed with the original text and the translated text containing the hyperlinks displayed in the bilingual format, the document referred to by the hyperlink can be output with the original text and the translated text in the bilingual format.
Another aspect of the present invention includes an output control unit for controlling the output of the fourth data from the first data.
With the configuration, the following processes can be realized. That is, the original text referred from by the hyperlink and the translated text can be output in the bilingual format. The original text and the translated text referred to by the hyperlink can also be output in the bilingual format. Furthermore, the original text referred from by the hyperlink and the translated text referred to by the hyperlink can be output in the bilingual format. The original text referred to by the hyperlink and the translated text referred from by the hyperlink can also be output in the bilingual format. Thus, various display methods can be realized according to the present invention.
A further aspect of the present invention includes a first display screen for displaying data according to the first display format; a second display screen for displaying data according to the second display format: and a display control unit for first converting the referred-to information into the data in the second display format and then displaying the converted information on the second display screen when the information referred to by the hypermedia data displayed on the first display screen is displayed on the second display screen.
With the configuration, data can be displayed on the first display screen according to the first display format, and on the second display screen according to the second display format even if the information referred to by the hypermedia data is contained in any data type. As a result, even if the information referred to by the hypermedia data is represented in any language, the languages displayed on the first and second display screens can be represented in the language of the referred-from text, thereby preventing the displayed information from being represented in different languages on the same screen when a hyperlink is processed.
A further aspect of the present invention includes a first display control unit for displaying data of the first data type on the first display screen; a second display control unit for displaying data of the second data type on the second display screen; a third display control unit for first converting the referred-to information into the data of the second data type and then displaying the converted information on the second display screen when the referred-to information is displayed as the data of the first data type on the first display screen.
With the configuration, the referred-to information can be displayed as the data of the second data type on the second display screen only by displaying the referred-to information as the data of the first data type on the first display screen, thereby matching the contents displayed on the first display screen with the contents displayed on the second display screen by performing a simple operation.
A further aspect of the present invention includes a first display control unit for displaying the first data on the first display screen; a second display control unit for converting the first data into the second data and then displaying the converted data on the second display screen; and a third display control unit for controlling the displayed contents of the second data with the change in the displayed contents of the first data.
With the configuration, for example, the displayed contents of translated text can be automatically changed when the displayed contents of original text are changed even if the displayed contents of the original text change as a result of the scrolling or editing operation on the original text with the original text and the translated text displayed in the bilingual format. Thus, the original text and the translated text can be conveniently displayed in the bilingual format.
A further aspect of the present invention includes a display unit provided with a plurality of display screens; an input control unit for monitoring display formats on the display screens; a process type determination unit for determining the process type of hyper-document data based on the display format on a specified display screen; a data obtaining unit for obtaining the document data referred to by the hyper-document data; a process type definition file for storing the process contents of the referred-to document data based on the process type; a conversion control unit for controlling the conversion of the document data referred to by the hyper-document data based on the contents of the process type definition file; and an output control unit for outputting a process result of the referred-to document data on the specified display screen.
With the configuration, the document referred to by a hyperlink can be represented as translated text even if the hyperlink of the original text is embedded as is in the translated text, the document referred to by the hyperlink embedded in the original text is described in the language of the original text, and the hyperlink is processed in the translated text. As a result, the referred-to document can be displayed in the language of the original text on the screen on which the original text is displayed, and the referred-to document can be displayed in the language of the translated text on the screen on which the translated text is displayed. Thus, a document written
Edouard Patrick N.
Fujitsu Limited
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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