System and method for language translation of character strings occurring in captured image data
OwnerHuitao Luo, Jian Fan +1inventors
InventorsHuitao Luo, Jian Fan, Jonathan Yen
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Abstract
A system and method capable of performing language translation of a graphical representation of a first language character string within captured image data of a natural image by extracting image data corresponding to the graphical representation of the text from the captured image data. The extracted graphical representation is then converted into first language encoded character data that, in turn, is translated into a second language data. The translated text and the captured image can then be displayed together by overlaying the translated text over the graphical representation of the character string in the captured image.
Claims20
A system of language translation comprising:
- character image extractor (30) for extracting character string information describing image data corresponding to a graphical representation of at least one character string from captured image data;
- character recognizer (31) for converting character string information into first encoded character string data corresponding to a first language;
- language translator (32) for converting the first encoded character string data into translated data corresponding to a second language.
A method of language translation comprising:
- extracting (40) character string information describing image data corresponding to a graphical representation of a character string from captured image data;
- converting (41) character string information corresponding to the extracted image data to first encoded character string data corresponding to a first language;
- translating (42) the first encoded character string data into translated data corresponding to a second language.
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