Patent Document ID: 8031943
Application ID: 12192391

Base Claim:
1. A system for automatic natural language translation of embedded text regions in images during information transfer, the system comprising: a computing platform having hardware for performing a logical process; a clipboard buffer portion of the computing platform configured to receive a copy of one or more user-selected image elements from within a source computer file responsive to user operation of a cut-and-paste command; an isolator and interceptor portion of the computing platform configured to: receive a user-supplied isolation rule defining one or more types of image elements to be isolated, examine the one or more image elements in the clipboard buffer against the isolation rule, responsive to the one or more image elements meeting the isolation rule, transfer the one or more image elements from the clipboard buffer portion to an isolation store, and disable pasting of the one or more image elements into a destination computer file; a recognizer portion of the computing platform configured to recognize text from within the one or more image elements in the isolation store; a source language identifier portion of the computing platform configured to determine a natural language in which the recognized text is expressed; a preference comparitor portion of a computing platform configured to determine if the natural language of the recognized text matches a user-specified destination natural language; a translator portion of a computing platform configured to perform natural language translation of the recognized text into the user-specified destination natural language; a text image renderer portion of a computing platform configured to produce image data for translated text; an image modifier portion of the computing platform configured to overlay text within the one or more image elements stored in the isolation store with the image data; and a copier portion of the computing platform configured to complete pasting of the one or more image elements from the isolation store to one or more user-designated destination points within the destination computer file.

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Claim 2:
2. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the recognizer portion includes an Optical Character Recognizer configured to recognize regions of embedded text, and to generate text data.