Patent Application: US-54305409-A

Abstract:
the present invention is an advanced natural language translation system . it discloses a method to address the most common variation in the world , which is communication gap between people of different ethnicity . typically , communication is said to be successful between two people if someone speaks and opponent party can understand . in other words the intended recipient &# 39 ; s brain language area can comprehend the speech . the problem of not understanding the speech of others is the cause of language barriers . so , this invention discloses a method to solve the language barrier problem where it is capable of interpreting meaning of speech in one language to a language native to another — basically to a language the recipient brain can comprehend . imagine a world where we can communicate with our native language to everyone without the need of human translators , interpreters , hand - held device and language translation books . in order to facilitate language translation , this present invention recognizes the speech , collects the language comprehensive information from every recipient &# 39 ; s brain language area within the audible range and sends it to voice processing center for analyzing . then , it translates the collected speech to intended recipient native language by using more than 6 , 700 language dictionaries database . the translated language is retransmitted in audible frequency to the language area of each recipient brain .

Description:
reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention , examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings , wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout . communication is said to be effective between two people , if one speaks and opponent party can understand . in other words the intended recipients &# 39 ; brain language area can comprehend the words / sentence / speech . the present invention basically does that — interpreting meaning of word ( s ) in a language understandable by wernicke &# 39 ; s of intended recipient brain . in human beings , it is the left hemisphere that usually contains the specialized language areas . while this holds true for 97 % of right - handed people , about 19 % of left - handed people have their language areas in the right hemisphere and as many as 68 % of them have some language abilities in both the left and the right hemisphere . both the two hemispheres are thought to contribute to the processing and understanding of language : the left hemisphere processes the linguistic of prosody , while the right hemisphere processes the emotions conveyed by prosody . fig3 is an isometric , left side view of the brain 300 . the targeted language areas of the brain 300 can include broca &# 39 ; s area 308 and / or wernicke &# 39 ; s area 310 . sections of the brain 300 anterior to , posterior to , or between these areas can be targeted in addition to broca &# 39 ; s area 308 and wernicke &# 39 ; s area 310 . for example , the targeted areas can include the middle frontal gyrus 302 , the inferior frontal gyrus 304 and / or the inferior frontal lobe 306 anterior to broca &# 39 ; s area 308 . the other areas targeted for stimulation can include the superior temporal lobe 314 , the superior temporal gyrus 316 , and / or the association fibers of the arcuate fasciculus 312 , the inferior parietal lobe 318 and / or other structures , including the supramarginal gyrus , angular gyrus , retrosplenial cortex and / or the retrosplenial cuneus of the brain 300 . there are four distinct cortical language - related areas in the left hemisphere . these are : ( 1 ) a lateral and ventral temporal lobe region that includes superior temporal sulcus ( sts ) 316 , middle temporal gyrus ( mtg ), parts of the inferior temporal gyrus ( itg ) and fusiform and parahippocampal gyri ; ( 2 ) a prefrontal region that included much of the inferior and superior frontal gyri , rostral and caudal aspects of the middle frontal gyrus , and a portion of the anterior cingulate ; ( 3 ) angular gyrus ; and ( 4 ) a perisplenial region including posterior cingulate , ventromedial precuneus , and cingulate isthmus . these regions were clearly distinct from auditory , premotor , supplementary motor area ( sma ), and supramarginal gyrus areas that had been bilaterally activated by the tone task . the other large region activated by the semantic task is the right posterior cerebellum . the first language area within the left hemisphere is called broca &# 39 ; s area 308 . the broca &# 39 ; s area 308 doesn &# 39 ; t just handle getting language out in a motor sense it is more generally involved in the ability to deal with grammar itself , at least the more complex aspects of grammar . the second language area is called wernicke &# 39 ; s area 310 . wernicke &# 39 ; s aphasia is not only about speech comprehension people with wernicke &# 39 ; s aphasia also having difficulty in naming things . they often respond with words that sound similar , or the names of related things , as if they are having a very hard time with their mental “ dictionaries .” for example , hearing the difference between “ bad ” and “ bed ” is easy for native english speakers . the dutch language however , makes no difference between these vowels , and therefore the dutch have difficulties hearing the difference between them . this problem is exactly what patients with wernicke &# 39 ; s aphasia have in their own language : they can &# 39 ; t isolate significant sound characteristics and classify them into known meaningful systems . by analyzing data from numerous brain - imaging experiments , researchers have now distinguished three sub - areas within wernicke &# 39 ; s area 310 . the first sub - area responds to spoken words ( including the individual &# 39 ; s own ) and other sounds . the second sub - area responds only to words spoken by someone else but is also activated when the individual recalls a list of words . the third sub - area is more closely associated with producing speech than with perceiving it . all of these findings are still compatible , however , the general role of wernicke &# 39 ; s area 310 , relates to the representation of phonetic sequences , regardless of whether the individual hears them , generates them , or recalls them from memory . fig1 illustrates the broad structure of this present invention . fig1 . a shows a woman 102 saying her name in her native language french —“ bonjour , mon nom est susan ” 106 . the present invention employs a data broadcasting technique to broadcast the intelligent natural language program ( inlp ) 110 over a wide area using radio waves . intelligent natural language program 110 is a pico - program which is advanced version of natural language processing programs i . e ., eliza , shrdlu , a . l . i . c . e , written in special kind of pico - planner programming language . the intelligent natural language program 110 has two algorithms :— intelligent speech recognition algorithm 112 and language area acquisition algorithm 114 . intelligent speech recognition algorithm 112 captures and improves the recognition rate of the spoken dialog in three ways . first , generate phoneme sequence from recognized voice pitches . this phoneme sequence contains substitution , insertion and deletion of phonemes , as compared to a correct transcription which contains only expected phonemes . second , activate a hypothesis as to the correct phoneme sequence from noisy phoneme sequence by filtering out false first choices of the hypotheses and selecting grammatically and semantically plausible best hypotheses . third , provide a phoneme and word hypotheses to the parser which consist of several competitive phoneme or word hypotheses each of which are assigned the probability of being correct . the intelligent speech recognition algorithm captures the spoken sentence of woman —“ bonjour , mon nom est susan ” 106 and provides phoneme - level sequence i . e ., phoneme and word hypotheses . intelligent natural language program 110 initiates the language area acquisition algorithm 114 to gather the language comprehensive information from the single listener man 104 who is in the audible range of the woman &# 39 ; s 102 voice . the language area acquisition algorithm 114 is capable of collecting the language area comprehensive information like language comprehension , semantic processing , language recognition , and language interpretation from wernicke &# 39 ; s area 310 and broca &# 39 ; s area 308 . it will collect the information from wernicke &# 39 ; s area 310 of single listener man &# 39 ; s brain namely superior temporal sulcus and middle temporal gyrus , inferior temporal gyrus , fusiform gyrus , angular gyrus , inferior frontal gyrus , rostral and caudal middle frontal gyrus , superior frontal gyrus , anterior cingulate , and perisplenial cortex / precuneus . the language comprehensive , phonemes and word hypotheses are collected and sent to voice processing center over datacasting network . in fig2 voice processing center 210 receives the signals having language comprehensive information and phoneme - level sequence — each of which is assigned the probability of being correct . the language comprehensive information is compared with cache database . in fig4 cache database 408 is a collection of native language data . retrieval of original native language is expensive owing to longer access time ; the cache is a cost effective way to store the original native language or other computed languages . it acts like a temporary storage area where frequently accessed native language data can be stored for rapid access . once the data is stored in the cache , it can be used in the future by accessing the cached copy rather than re - fetching or re - computing the original native language data . cache database 408 is thus an effective approach to achieve high scalability and performance . voice processing center 210 is operated by a language area inference engine 412 which includes a knowledge base of all possible language area information . it is an artificial intelligence program that tries to derive native language information from a knowledge base for woman &# 39 ; s 104 and man &# 39 ; s 102 language comprehensive information . it tries to derive reasoning from the knowledge base . the separation of language area inference engine 412 as a distinct software component stems from the typical speech translating system architecture . this architecture relies on a data store , or working memory , serving as a global database representing facts or assertions about the wernicke &# 39 ; s 310 and broca &# 39 ; s 308 areas of human brain ; on a set of rules which constitute the program , stored in a rule memory of production memory ; and on an inference engine , required to execute the language comprehensive rules . the language area inference engine 412 must determine which language comprehensive rules are relevant to a given language comprehensive data store configuration and choose which one ( s ) to apply . this control strategy is used to select native languages . the language area inference engine 412 can be described as a form of finite state machine with a cycle consisting of three action states : match , select , and execute language comprehensive rules . in the first state , match language comprehensive rules , the language area inference engine 412 finds all of the language comprehensive rules that are satisfied by the current contents of the data store . when language comprehensive rules are in the typical condition - action form , the next step is to test the conditions against the working memory . the language comprehensive rule matching are all candidates for execution : they are collectively referred to as the conflict set . note that the same language comprehensive rule may appear several times in the conflict set if it matches different subsets of data items . the pair of a language comprehensive rule and a subset of matching data items are called an instantiation of the language comprehensive rule . the language area inference engine 412 ( in fig4 ) then passes along the conflict set to the second state , select language comprehensive rules . in this state , the language area inference engine 412 ( in fig4 ) applies lex strategy to determine which language comprehensive rules will actually be executed . the selection strategy can be hard - coded into the engine or may be specified as part of the model . the lex strategy orders instantiations on the basis of recency of the time tags attached to their language comprehensive data items . instantiations with language comprehensive data items having recently matched language comprehensive rules in previous cycles are considered with higher priority . within this ordering , instantiations are further sorted on the complexity of the conditions in the rule . finally the selected language comprehensive instantiations are passed over to the third state , execute language comprehensive rules . the language area inference engine 412 ( in fig4 ) executes or fires the selected language comprehensive rules , with the language comprehensive instantiation &# 39 ; s data items as parameters . usually the actions in the right - hand side of a language comprehensive rule change the data store , but they may also trigger further processing outside of the language area inference engine 412 ( in fig4 ). since the data store is usually updated by firing rules , a different set of rules will match during the next cycle after these actions are performed . the language area inference engine 412 then cycle back to the first state and are ready to start over again and it stops either on a quiescent state of the data store when no rules match the data . the selected native languages are then compared 414 ( in fig4 ) with the source native language . if both native language information are same then translation will not take place otherwise a translation will take place . the accurate translation of input speech is done by sophisticated parsing 420 ( in fig4 ) and generation 422 ( in fig4 ). the translation module has parsing 420 ( in fig4 ) and generation 422 ( in fig4 ) which is capable of interpreting the woman &# 39 ; s 102 spoken dialog . the parsing 420 ( in fig4 ) module performs the process of prediction including complete semantic interpretations , constraint checks , and ambiguity resolution and discourse interpretations . this system uses the fuse constraint - based and case - based approaches to perform syntactic / semantic and discourse interpretations . the parser 420 ( in fig4 ) handles multiple hypotheses in parallel rather than a single word sequence . a generation 422 ( in fig4 ) module is designed to generate the appropriate spoken sentences with correct articulation control . it generates the appropriate spoken sentences using language dictionaries knowledge base . the language dictionaries knowledge base 424 ( in fig4 ) is used for keeping track of more than 6 , 700 language discourse and world knowledge established during the conversation , and is continuously up - dated during processing . thus , the appropriate sentence has been generated for woman &# 39 ; s spoken sentence to man &# 39 ; s 104 ( in fig1 . a ) native language — as shown in 108 ( in fig1 . a ) where man &# 39 ; s brain language area ( i . e ., wernicke &# 39 ; s 310 / broca &# 39 ; s 308 area ) can comprehended . this system performs real - time translations , which is far better performance than text - based machine translation systems . unlike traditional methods of machine translation in which a generation 422 ( in fig4 ) process is invoked after parsing 420 ( in fig4 ) is completed ; this system concurrently executes the generation 422 ( in fig4 ) process during parsing 420 ( in fig4 ). it employs a parallel incremental generation scheme , where the generation process and the parsing process run almost concurrently . this enables the system to generate a part of the woman &# 39 ; s 102 ( in fig1 . a ) vocal expression during the parsing of the rest of the woman &# 39 ; s 102 ( in fig1 . a ) vocal expression . thus this system stimulates a live feeling — where one speaks and instantaneously the listeners can comprehend the speech in their native languages . the advanced natural language system also handles two - way conversations . this system provides the bi - directional translation with an ability to understand interaction at the discourse knowledge level , predict possible next vocal expression , understand what particular pronouns refer to , and also provides high - level constraints for the generation of contextually appropriate sentences involving various context - dependent phenomena . fig1 . b illustrates the conversation between friends who are all foreign - language speaking people . vietnamese speaking person is saying “ this food is delicious ” in his native language such as shown in 116 , this sentence is comprehended as shown in 118 by the cantalan speaking person , as shown in 120 by finnish speaking person , and as shown in 122 by hebrew speaking person and also as shown in 124 by english speaking person . the finnish speaking person acknowledges back to them in his native as shown in 126 . others comprehend the finnish sentence as shown in 128 , as shown in 130 , as shown in 132 respectively using advanced native language translation system . similarly , fig1 . c illustrates a business conversation . a boss 134 is asking as shown in fig1 . 136 to his subordinates . his subordinates are a chinese woman 138 , bulgarian man 140 , and danish woman 142 . the boss &# 39 ; s 134 spoken dialog is comprehended as shown in 144 by chinese speaking woman , as shown in 146 by bulgarian speaking man , and as shown in 148 danish speaking woman using advanced native language translation system . fig1 . d illustrates the spokesman 150 is giving a speech in his native language spanish as shown in 152 to a crowd . there are slovenian , korean , hindi , hungarian , and portuguese speaking people in the crowd . so , the spokesman &# 39 ; s spanish speech is automatically comprehended by slovenian speaking person as shown in 154 , by korean speaking person as shown in 156 , by hindi speaking person as shown in 158 , by hungarian speaking person as shown in 160 , and by portuguese speaking person as shown in 162 using advanced native language translation system . as described above , the present invention discloses a system for translating a speech in one language to a language native to the intended recipient ( s ). accordingly , the present invention discloses a system of comprehending native languages without the use of any hand - held translators . this invention employs a system where there will no longer be a need to learn new language . effective communication is now feasible between people speaking different languages . this system explores the capabilities of the human brain and utilizes the language information of the brain and performs the automatic translation in the background . it should be noted that with all the reading of language area of the human brain — the human brain will not be affected or caused any harm during this process . the foregoing descriptions of specific embodiments of the present invention have been presented for purposes of illustration and description . they are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the present invention to the precise forms disclosed , and obviously many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching . the embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the present invention and its practical application . although the present invention has been described with reference to particular embodiments , it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that variations and modifications can be substituted without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention . “ natural language generation in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics ” by cécile l . paris , william r . swartout , william c . mann t . morimoto et al ., “ spoken language translation ,” proc . info japan , tokyo , 1990 . k . kita , t . kawabata , and h . saito , “ hmm continuous speech recognition using predictive l r parsing ,” proc . ieee int &# 39 ; 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