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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190420 | Automatic spoken language identification based on phoneme sequence patterns A language identification system that includes a universal phoneme decoder (UPD) is described. The UPD contains a universal phoneme set representing both 1) all phonemes occurring in the set of two or more spoken languages, and 2) captures phoneme correspondences ac... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190421 | Handheld electronic device including toggle of a selected data source, and associated method A method for enabling input into a handheld electronic device having at least three selectable languages available thereon includes detecting a predetermined input a number of times and switching a selected language between one of the three selectable languages and ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185376 | Identifying language origin of words The language of origin of a word is determined by analyzing non-uniform letter sequence portions of the word. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180626 | Language detection service Language detection techniques are described. In implementation, a method comprises determining which human writing system is associated with text characters in a string based on values representing the text characters. When the values are associated with more than o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170863 | System, method and program product for portlet-based translation of web content Under the present invention, the portlets of a portal page are individually configured for translation of the web content therein. In configuring a portlet, a set of specifications is designated. Once such specification is a translation paradigm that dictates whethe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170864 | Method and apparatus for capturing graphic user interface resource of an application A method and apparatus for capturing graphic user interface resource of an application, which method comprises: loading resource files in which visible text data in graphic user interfaces of the application are stored; duplicating the resource files; adding identif... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170865 | Speech recognition device and method thereof A speech recognition device and a method thereof are adapted to recognize a Chinese word. The speech recognition device includes a lexicon model, a language model, a speech recognition module, and a parsing module. The lexicon model keeps a plurality of words. The s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170866 | System and method for increasing accuracy of searches based on communication network Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for using a local communication network to generate a speech model. The method includes retrieving for an individual a list of numbers in a calling history, identifying a local neighborhood associated with e... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160866 | Speech recognition method for both english and chinese The present invention can recognize both English and Chinese at the same time. The most important skill is that the features of all English words (without samples) are entirely extracted from the features of Chinese syllables. The invention normalizes the signal wav... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155947 | Multilingual translation system using character set A system of communicating over cellular telephones using symbols in place of language parts. The symbols are downloaded as part of the lookup table. A user can enter a message in text, and that message is converted into the symbols. The symbols can then be sent to a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8131537 | Apparatus and method for morphological analysis To improve the processing speed of a morphological analysis system, an analysis processing part retrieves words constituting a natural language sentence from a word dictionary, retrieves concatenation rules from a grammar dictionary, creates an automaton based on th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126701 | Translation technology in electronic sourcing A method for providing effective communication in a network, including obtaining from an editor data in a first language, accepting from the editor at least one allowable language other than the first language, receiving a request from a reader to access the data in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126702 | Translating data objects Translating information, such as an object type and content, in a first data object from an initial language into a target language includes searching a database to locate a second data object having the object type, attempting to obtain, from the second data object... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126703 | Method, spoken dialog system, and telecommunications terminal device for multilingual speech output A method for providing multilingual speech output in an automated spoken dialog system includes setting up a connection between a telecommunications terminal device and the spoken dialog system. In response to a connection setup, a multilingual speech output is prov... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117021 | Method and apparatus for testing a software program using mock translation input method editor A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for testing software programs running on a data processing system. Text is translated from the source language to the target language to form translated text in response to a user input, containing the text in a source ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8095355 | Displaying original text in a user interface with translated text 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 ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8078449 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for translating speech, and terminal that outputs translated speech In a speech translation apparatus, a correspondence storage unit stores therein identifiers of terminals and usage languages used in the terminals associated with each other. A receiving unit receives a source speech from one of the terminals. A translating unit acq... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078612 | Providing data based on language choice Data may be provided in a language chosen by a user. A data record may be stored in a database using symbols to represent data. These symbols may be converted into various languages. A resource file for a given language defines a correspondence between the symbols i... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073680 | Language detection service Language detection techniques are described. In implementation, a method comprises determining which human writing system is associated with text characters in a string based on values representing the text characters. When the values are associated with more than o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065134 | Multi-lingual information display system comprising public area and individual areas An information display system has an information display unit which displays information in a large screen display device in a predetermined standard language; a user information input unit which inputs user information including information of a language desired by... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055496 | Ensuring product correctness in a multilingual environment A language package system that prevents undesirable behaviors resulting from an incompatibility between a core package of a software product and its language packages is provided. The language package system executes when a user starts the execution of the core pack... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046213 | On demand TTS vocabulary for a telematics system A driving directions system loads into memory a limited subset of prerecorded, spoken utterances of geographic names from a mass media storage. The subset of spoken utterances may be limited, for example, to the geographic names within a predetermined radius (e.g., ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8027831 | Information display control apparatus and recording medium recording information display control program An information display control apparatus includes an example sentence storage unit that stores a plurality of example sentences, an input unit that accepts a user's operation of inputting a string of characters, an example sentence search unit that, when a compound ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024337 | Systems and methods for determining query similarity by query distribution comparison A system determines query similarity. The system determines a volume per unit time of an issued first query over a time period and determines a volume per unit time of issued other queries over the time period. The system compares the volume per unit time of each of... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019591 | Rapid automatic user training with simulated bilingual user actions and responses in speech-to-speech translation A system and method for automatic user training in speech-to-speech translation includes integrating an automatic user response system configured to be responsive to a plurality of training items and selecting a training item from the plurality of training items. Fo... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019592 | Information terminal device and method for purchasing and adding additional program functions An information terminal device and method for upgrading a program simply and flexibly and an upgraded program is described. In many cases, a program running on a computer has additional functions prepared separately so that they can be added to that program as neces... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014998 | Electronic device A storing unit stores therein a plurality of different display language data that is switchable according to a use environment of a user. A selecting unit selects a display language data from the storing unit in response to display language specification information... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010339 | Storage device that provides efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device Efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device is provided. NLS file segments are provided in a wrapper in the Virtual NLS file. Segments may be organized by language family. The number of segments that need to be searched is also minimized. At a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010338 | Dynamic modification of a messaging language A method for dynamically modifying an outgoing message language includes receiving a message from a sender. A language associated with the received message is identified and an outgoing message language is automatically set to the identified language associated with... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010340 | Method, system and computer program product for national language support using a multi-language property file A method, system, and computer program product for national language support. National language support for an application is provided by recording translations of a text string in corresponding different languages in a single property file so as to allow display of... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996208 | Methods and systems for selecting a language for text segmentation Methods and systems for selecting a language for text segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least a first candidate language and a second candidate language associated with a string of characters are identified, at least a first segmented result associat... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996209 | Method and system of generating and detecting confusing phones of pronunciation A method of generating and detecting confusing phones/syllables is disclosed. The method includes a generating stage and a detecting stage. The generating stage includes: (a) input a Mandarin utterance; (b) partition the Mandarin utterance into segmented phones/syll... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979266 | Method and system of language detection Systems, methods, computer-readable media and other embodiments are provided for automatically determining a language of a document from a set of candidate languages. In one embodiment, a system includes a logic for setting an assumption value associated with each o... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970599 | Translation leveraging An application archive is searched for an existing translation for a text string in an application to be localized. The text string is associated with context information that identifies a location of the text string in the application. If an existing translation is... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966171 | System and method for increasing accuracy of searches based on communities of interest Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for using a local communication network to generate a speech model. The method includes retrieving for an individual a list of numbers in a calling history, identifying a local neighborhood associated with e... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962324 | Method for globalizing support operations Techniques are provided for globalizing handling of service management items. The techniques include obtaining a service management item in a language convenient to a first of two or more actors, translating the service management item into a language-neutral format... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962325 | Server device, method used in server device, and computer program A server device which can provide a client device with information in a plurality of languages includes a supportable language recognizing unit recognizing a plurality of supportable languages using language identification information, a requested language recognizi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957954 | System and computer program product for national language support using a multi-language property file A system and computer program product for national language support. National language support for an application is provided by recording translations of a text string in corresponding different languages in a single property file so as to allow display of the tran... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953591 | Automatically identifying unique language independent keys correlated with appropriate text strings of various locales by key search A method, system and computer program product for automatically identifying unique language independent keys. A “key search” is performed which searches for various language independent keys in a properties file associated with a value or text string entered in ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949515 | Automatically identifying unique language independent keys correlated with appropriate text strings of various locales by value and key searches A method, system and computer program product for automatically identifying unique language independent keys. A “value search” is performed which provides a listing of values for a locale. Upon the user selecting a value in the listing, a “key search” is per... | 05/24/2011 |
