Recognition and translation system and method
AssigneeBabylon, Ltd.
InventorsOfer Egozi, Ovadia Amnon
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Abstract
The invention comprises a method and system of recognition and translation, stored on a digital storage device with an operating system and running computer applications, such as a personal computer, which recognizes input by the human computer user and transmits output to the human user, which performs non-optical and optical character recognition of characters displayed on the output device of the digital storage device, which automatically recognizes and translates phrases contiguous to and including the phrase upon which the System is activated and which translates words from one written phrase set to a second written phrase set.
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A method of recognition and translation, stored on a digital storage device with an operating system and running computer applications, said digital storage device capable of recognizing output to the user and input by the user and translating at least one word from one written phrase set to a second written phrase set, said method comprising the steps of:
- inputting information to the digital storage device, said device having output understandable to a human user;
- activating the method of recognition and translation;
- delineating an activated area;
- connecting between the digital storage device and the activation means,
- non-optically recognizing character types output by the digital storage device, wherein the step of non-optical character recognition comprises recognizing clipboard applications;
- translating the at least one word from the one written phrase set to the second written phrase set;
- automatically recognizing a combination of words;
- translating a combination of words from the one written phrase set to the second written phrase set;
- determining and providing words or phrases which are linguistically similar to the displayed word or combination of words if the word or combination of words is not recognized;
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- creating and augmenting a user dictionary which stores the displayed word or combination of words and its translation if the word or combination of words cannot be translated.
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