US 10,373,191 B2Granted

Advertisement translation device, advertisement display device, and method for translating an advertisement

AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

InventorsHiroki Shinohara, Koichiro Yamaguchi, Ken-ichi Shibata, Tetsuya Sato

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Abstract

An advertisement translation device is a device for translating an advertisement text displayed in a display area of a predetermined size in advertisement content, and displaying the translated advertisement text in the display area. The advertisement translation device includes: an advertisement text obtainment unit which obtains the advertisement text; a linguistic information obtainment unit which obtains linguistic information indicating a target language into which the advertisement text is to be translated; a translation unit which create translated text candidates by translating the advertisement text into the target language indicated by the linguistic information; and a selection unit which selects and outputs as a translated text, at least one of the translated text candidates a full text of which is displayable in a predetermined character size in the display area.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An operating method for a signage system, the signage system comprising a display device including a display and a first communication interface, the display configured to display at least one screen containing a text display region, and a terminal device including a user interface configured to receive a user input and a second communication interface configured to communicate with the first communication interface of the display device,

the operating method comprising:
displaying a second text in a second language in the text display region on one of the at least one screen when the user interface of the terminal device receives a first text in a first language and the second text in the second language is displayable in the text display region of the display device with at least one character,
wherein a size of each of the at least one character is larger than a predetermined size,
the second language is different than the first language, and
the second text in the second language is translated from the first text in the first language by:
performing on the first text, replacement processing in which at least one word in the first text is replaced by a synonym in the first language to create similar texts,
translating each of the similar texts created and the first text into the second language as translated texts, and
selecting at least one of the translated texts which is displayable in the text display region as the second text.

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A signage system comprising:

a display device including a display and a first communication interface, the display configured to display at least one screen containing a text display region;
a terminal device including a user interface configured to receive a user input and a second communication interface configured to communicate with the first communication interface of the display device,
wherein when the user interface of the terminal device receives a first text in a first language and a second text in a second language is displayable in the text display region of the display device with at least one character, the display of the display device displays the second text in the text display region on one of the at least one screen,
a size of each of the at least one character is larger than a predetermined size,
the second language is different from the first language, and
the second text in the second language is translated from the first text in the first language by:
performing on the first text, replacement processing in which at least one word in the first text is replaced by a synonym in the first language to create similar texts,
translating each of the similar texts created and the first text into the second language as translated texts, and
selecting at least one of the translated texts which is displayable in the text display region as the second text.

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Facts

Application: 15/483,865Filed 10 Apr 2017 · division
Priority: JP 2013-05953122 Mar 2013
Published: US 2017/0212889 A127 Jul 2017
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G06Q 30/0241
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: advertisements
G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 9/454
Execution arrangements for user interfaces: multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
G06F 40/103
Text processing: formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents

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PCT/JP2013/004502Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Jul 2013
Application14/218,282Parent of this division · filed 18 Mar 2014
US 2017/0212889 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Jul 2017
US 9,672,529 B2Parent of this division
Application14/218,282Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0288946 A1Published application
US 10,373,191 B2This patent

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