Data processing: presentation processing of document – operator i – Presentation processing of document – Layout
Reexamination Certificate
1998-05-29
2004-02-10
Hong, Stephen S. (Department: 2176)
Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i
Presentation processing of document
Layout
C715S252000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06691279
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method for processing a document to cause the transmission destination to change the document according to the conditions of a place in which a receiver reads the document. Such conditions include time, season, amount of money, religion and the like included in a type of document such as an electronic mail message to a foreign country. The present invention also relates to a method for processing a document for changing the contents of the above elements which are contained in the transmitted document, and a machine translation apparatus for translating, for example, an English sentence containing information searched by a browser which searches and displays information offered by WWW (World Wide Web), into Japanese.
DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART
In the case of describing greetings appropriate to time, season, etc. on an electronic mail message to be sent abroad, it is desirable to describe the greetings appropriate to time and season according to the conditions of the destination country in consideration of a time difference from the destination country, local time of the arrival of the electronic mail at the destination country, season, religion in the destination country, etc. For instance, in the case of transmitting an electronic mail message to the USA from Japan at night, the suitable greeting is “Good morning”.
Especially, when a time is included in the body of a letter, unless the time is described by converting into the local time in the destination country, there is the possibility that the receiver misunderstands the time.
Furthermore, by the Internet communication boom, there have been increase in the number of users who receive electronic mail messages from foreign countries or browse the information offered by the WWW. Consequently, there are high demands for software for translating the electronic mail messages received from foreign countries on the Internet, information distributed over the Internet, etc. into Japanese, and a large number of translation software are commercialized.
However, when the user is unfamiliar with the conditions of the destination country, the user is required to gather information about the conditions of the country through book, on-line, etc. and the drafting of an electronic mail message becomes complicated. Conventionally, however, there has been no such supporting means taken as to draft a document in consideration of conditions of another country, such as a time difference from the destination country, season, amount of money, religion, etc. of the destination country.
In the present state, there has been no translation software providing sufficient quality for practical use. Accordingly, when the contents are not understandable from the translated sentence, the user tries to go back to the display of the original sentence, guesses the inadequately translated part, searches where the corresponding part lies in the original, and further, examines the meaning of the part by referring to the dictionary. Once the appropriate translation word has been found, the user returns the display to the previous Japanese translation and applies the examined results to the part which seems inadequate, and thus by repeating trial-and-error of adapting the examined results, is finally able to understand the contents. However, between languages having different word orders such as English and Japanese, it is difficult to search out the corresponding part.
Furthermore, in the present translation software, words which failed to be translated are left as the original words when generating a translation, and accordingly, the user is required to refer to the dictionary to seek the meaning of the words.
The present invention has been made to resolve the above problems. It is thus an object of the present invention to provide a document processing method in which a document appropriate to conditions of the transmission destination can be processed at the transmission destination, even through the user on the transmission side prepares a document without considering the conditions such as a time difference, season, amount of money, religion, etc. of the country of the receiver who reads the document, by causing the transmission destination to change the contents of the element according to the conditions of the country in which the receiver reads the document, such as time, season, amount of money, religion and the like included in the document such as an electronic mail message to a foreign country, and by changing the contents of the element as described above contained in the transmitted document.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a machine translation apparatus offering an excellent user interface which makes reference to a sentence or word in the original from the corresponding sentence or word in the translation easy, and makes reference to dictionary data corresponding to the word in the original easy by processing a document like an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) document which forms a link between the sentence, word, etc. of a translation and the corresponding original sentence, word, etc. acquired in the process of the translation, and by processing a document like an HTML document which forms a link between the original language and the corresponding dictionary data acquired in the process of the translation with making reference to dictionary data base.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The document processing method of the present invention is characterized in that, in a method for processing a document containing an element whose contents are to be changed according to conditions of a place where a communication terminal apparatus for reading the document is disposed, information for specifying the element is stored, said element is extracted by analyzing the processed document according to conditions of the transmission side, the extracted element is attached with information indicating that the element is the element whose contents should be changed, and transmission is made.
By the above method, it becomes possible to have a transmission destination such as a terminal apparatus of a receiver, a server which stores a document that a receiver can refer to, and the like, modify a document containing an element whose contents are to be changed according to conditions of the country of the receiver who reads the document, such as time, season, amount of money, religion and the like included in the document such as an electronic mail message to a foreign country. Accordingly, the user on the transmission side need not prepare documents in consideration of the conditions of the country of the receiver who reads the document, such as time, season, amount of money, religion and the like, rather the document itself suits the conditions of the transmission destination which can be processed on the receiving side.
The document processing method of the present invention is characterized in that, in a method for processing a document appropriate to a place where a communication terminal apparatus for reading said document is disposed from a received document, by storing information for specifying an element whose contents are to be changed to the contents appropriate to the above conditions and corrective information for changing said contents, extracting said element by analyzing the received document, and modifying the contents of the extracted element into the contents appropriate to the above conditions.
By the above method, transmission destination such as a terminal apparatus of a receiver, a server which stores a document that a receiver can refer to, and the like, can modify a document containing an element whose contents are to be changed according to conditions of the country of the receiver who reads the document, such as time, season, amount of money, religion and the like included in the document such as an electronic mail to a foreign country. Accordingly, the user on the transmission side need not prepare a document in consideration of the conditions of the country of
Ohi Kouzou
Yoden Naoyuki
Yumura Takeshi
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Hong Stephen S.
Sanyo Electric Co., LTD
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