Patent ID: 7286993
Filing Date: 2007-10-23
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
1. A speech translation system, comprising: a display upon which data corresponding to at least one spoken word of a user is displayed; a holographic storage medium having a plurality of frames oriented at different angles within the holographic storage medium, each frame having: a first laser positioned to direct a beam of light through the display and the holographic storage medium, at least one of the holographic storage medium and the first laser movable to direct the beam to different frames of the plurality of frames; and at least one light detector positioned to receive light from the laser through the holographic storage medium; an output device by which translated speech is provided to a user; and a correlation detector coupled to the at least one detector and adapted to detect a match between the at least one spoken word upon the display and the data representative of at least one word in the first language in the first portion of a frame, the correlation detector responsive to detection of the match by sending the data representative of the at least one word in the second language in the second portion of the frame to the output device.