Mobile device having human language translation capability with positional feedback
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsMichael M. LEE, Justin GREGG, Chad G. SEGUIN
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Abstract
A mobile electronic device has a touch sensitive screen and an accelerometer. A translator is to translate a word or phrase that is in a first human language and that is entered via a first virtual keyboard displayed on the touch sensitive screen, into a second human language. A translator is to cause the touch sensitive screen to display the translated word or phrase and a second virtual keyboard having characters in the second human language, in response to the accelerometer detecting a change in the physical orientation of the device or movement of the device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims27
1-18. (canceled)
A mobile electronic device comprising:
- a touch sensitive screen;
- a detection device for detecting a change in physical orientation of the device;
- and
- a translator application operable in multiple physical orientations of the device, wherein in response to the detection device detecting a change in the physical orientation of the device, the translator application:
- causing a translation of a word or phrase from a first human language entered via a first virtual keyboard on the touch sensitive screen into a second human language, and
- causing a display of the translation and a second virtual keyboard having characters or symbols from the second human language on the touch sensitive screen.
A mobile electronic device comprising:
- a touch sensitive screen;
- a detection device for detecting a change in physical orientation of the device;
- and
- a translator application capable of translating a word or phrase from a first human language entered via a first virtual keyboard on the touch sensitive screen into a second human language, wherein in response to the detection device detecting a change in the physical orientation of the device, the translator application:
- causing a display of the translation in the second human language and a second virtual keyboard having characters or symbols from the second human language on the touch sensitive screen.
A method for operating a mobile electronic device, comprising:
- receiving a word or phrase in a first human language using an associated first virtual keyboard displayed right side up;
- causing the entered word or phrase to be translated into a second language;
- wherein a first orientation of the device is associated with the first human language and a second orientation of the device is associated with the second human language;
- and
- in response to detecting the device rotating from the first orientation to the second orientation, causing display of the translated word or phrase and a second virtual keyboard associated with the second language right side up in the second orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.