Patent Application: US-62262709-A

Abstract:
the present invention is an “ automated speech translation system using human brain language areas comprehension capabilities ”. it discloses a method to address the most common variation in the world , which is communication gap between people of different ethnicity . imagine a world where we can communicate with our natural 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 in voice pitches , collects the language comprehensive information from each recipient &# 39 ; s brain language areas within the audible range and sends it to “ voice processing center ” for analyzing . then , it translates the collected voice pitches of speech to natural language of recipient by using language dictionaries database . the translated language is retransmitted in audible frequency to one or plurality of recipients where the brain language areas of one or plurality of recipients can comprehend .

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 intended recipient 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 language areas of intended recipient brain . the “ automated speech translation system using human brain language areas comprehension capabilities ” of present invention has three main logical processing units — intelligent natural language program ( inlp ), language inference engine and speech translation module . the human ear can hear frequencies at ˜ 70 decibels . when we talk our thoughts are converted into voice signals and transmitted into the surrounding regions . the human speech contains the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies . each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units . these vocabularies , the syntax which structures them , and their set of speech sound units , differ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages . this system employs a software broadcasting technique to broadcast the intelligent natural language program ( inlp ) over the air . the “ automated speech translation system using human brain language areas comprehension capabilities ” of present invention makes use of electromagnetic radiation to broadcast the language area acquisition signal directed towards the intended recipient &# 39 ; s head . the voice processing center of present invention receives the electromagnetic frequencies which contain a rapid analysis of the language area of intended recipient &# 39 ; s brain . the rapid analysis of the brain language areas of one or plurality of intended recipients , are analyzed within seconds to provide an evaluation of the state of the cell &# 39 ; s structure . only information , not energy , is exchanged . as shown in flg . 1 . a , the spoken dialog of man 102 travels through air in vocalized form 104 . spoken dialog of man 102 contains the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large vocabularies . each spoken dialog of man 102 is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units . these vocabularies , the syntax which structures them , and their set of speech sound units , differ creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages . an intelligent natural language program 118 of present invention , travels over air and looks for an acoustic waveform or voice pitches 104 , 106 , 108 , 110 , 112 , 114 , 116 in the air . the property of spoken voice of human being is determined by the rate of vibration of the vocal cords . the greater number of vibrations per second , the higher the pitch . the rate of vibration , in turn , is determined by the length and thickness of the vocal cords and by the tightening or relaxation of these cords . as shown in fig1 . b , an intelligent speech recognition algorithm 120 of intelligent natural language program 118 is capable of identifying an acoustic waveform or voice pitches consisting of alternating high and low air pressure travelling through the air . the intelligent speech recognition algorithm 120 of intelligent natural language program 118 identifies the voice pitches 104 , 106 , 108 , 110 , 112 , 114 , 116 ( shown in fig1 . a ) of man 102 from the air and identifies the phoneme - level sequences from it . the intelligent speech recognition algorithm 120 of intelligent natural language program 118 is capable of differentiate an acoustic wave form and normal waveform in the air . such a technique is disclosed in u . s . pat . no . 6 , 219 , 635 b1 entitled as “ instantaneous detection of human speech pitch pulses ”, issued to coulter et al and u . s . pat . no . 3 , 335 , 225 issued to campanella et al . also a similar method is disclosed in sciencedirect journal entitled as “ boltzmann analysis of acoustic - waveforms using virtual instrument software ” issued on sep . 27 , 1999 by robert b . patuzzi and greg a . o &# 39 ; beirne , the auditory laboratory , department of physiology , university of western australia , made of record and incorporated herein by reference . the language area acquisition algorithm 122 signal of the intelligent natural language program 118 is directed towards the intended recipient 124 who is in the audible range to voice of man 102 . the language area acquisition algorithm collects an evaluation of the state of the language areas &# 39 ; structure and also the degree of stress it is experiencing while the intended recipient listens and sends it to voice processing center . the voice processing center receives the electromagnetic frequencies which contain a rapid analysis of the language areas of intended recipient &# 39 ; s 124 brain . the analysis of the language areas of brain 126 of intended recipient 124 is then compared with “ human brain language areas knowledge base ” ( shown in fig1 . c ) to identify the natural language of intended recipient 124 . as shown in fig1 . c , the “ human brain language areas knowledge base ” is an exhaustive , comprehensive , obsessively massive list of brain samples of language areas activity information ; where the list of samples are collected information from experimental test results data of brain &# 39 ; s language areas activities and collected information from neurologists about brain &# 39 ; s language areas comprehension . the “ human brain language areas knowledge base ” comprises of millions and millions of brain data collected by recording the language area activity of the human brains . people from each of the natural language spoken around the world are surveyed ; while listening to the speech in their natural language , brain activity signals from the language area of their brain are recorded . these signals act as raw translations that indicate how the brain perceives the speech in their natural language . the recorded brain language areas activity signals are then analyzed and the characteristics of the brain language area activity signals are stored in the “ human brain language areas knowledge base ” along with the name of corresponding natural language . for example , for building the sample for french language , a french speech is presented to a person for whom french is the natural language . during this experiment the electrodes ( as shown in fig3 . b ) are connected to the language areas ( i . e ., left and right hemispheres and frontal lobes ) of his / her brain . while listening to a french speech , his / her brain language area activity is being recorded . the recorded brain language areas activity signals are then sent to a translator that uses special algorithms to decode the brain language area activity signals to determine the characteristics of the french language . the test results along with name of the natural language ( i . e ., french ) information are being stored in the “ human brain language areas knowledge base ”. the “ human brain language areas knowledge base ” thus built contains a massive store house of characteristics of “ brain language areas activity signals ” for over 6 , 700 natural languages spoken across the world . this massive repository of language characteristics is later used by the present invention to identify the natural language of the user . the identified natural language is fed into speech translation module 180 to generate the corresponding words in particular natural language for spoken sentence 104 of man 102 ( as shown in fig1 . b ). the generated sentence in identified natural language of intended recipient 124 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) is then fed into speech synthesizer 190 to generate an audio signal . the speech synthesizer 190 provides the translated audio signals of man &# 39 ; s 102 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) natural language sentence to broadcast to the intended recipient 124 . thus , as shown in fig1 . b the language areas of brain 126 of intended recipient 124 comprehends the spoken sentence 104 of a man 102 by hearing the acoustic waveform 132 on air . as shown in fig1 . c , voice processing center operates using a language area inference engine 170 , a speech translation module 180 , and an inlp 150 . language area inference engine 170 compares the analysis of the language areas of intended recipient &# 39 ; s brain with “ human brain language areas knowledge base ” to identify intended recipient &# 39 ; s natural language . the language area inference engine 170 is an artificial intelligence program that derives natural language information from a “ human brain language areas knowledge base ”. language area inference engine 170 is considered to be a special case of reasoning engines , capable of employing both induction and deduction methods of reasoning to identify the natural language from received language area comprehensive analysis . as shown in fig1 . c , the receiver antenna receives the phoneme - level sequences , and language area comprehensive information of intended recipient 124 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) and then analyzes and identifies the source and target natural languages using language area inference engine 170 . these phonemes that are identified from voice pitches ( i . e . 104 , 105 , 108 , 110 , 112 , 114 , 116 as shown in fig1 . a ) of man 102 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) by an intelligent speech recognition algorithm 120 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) are then combined in word groups to form recognizable words in one of the natural languages spoken in the world which is presented in language dictionaries . the formed sentence is then translated to target natural language which identified from intended recipient &# 39 ; s 124 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) language area comprehensive information using language area inference engine 170 . the translated language sentence is then passed to speech synthesizer 190 to convert as the voice signals 132 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) and then transmitted to the intended recipient 124 ( as shown in fig1 . b ) over the air . 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 . by analyzing data from numerous brain - imaging experiments , there are three distinguished subareas 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 . fig2 illustrates the broad structure of this present invention . fig2 . a shows a woman 202 saying her name in her natural language french — as shown in 206 . intelligent speech recognition algorithm 212 recognizes the voice pitches and improves the recognition rate of the spoken dialog of woman 202 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 212 identifies the phoneme - level sequence i . e ., phoneme and word hypotheses from the spoken sentence of woman 202 — as shown in 206 . simultaneously , a rapid analysis of brain language areas activity of man 204 is collected by directing language area acquisition signal towards man &# 39 ; s 204 head . the rapid analysis of man 204 brain includes the language area comprehensive information like language comprehension , semantic processing , language recognition , and language interpretation from brain language areas of man 204 and this collected information is sent to voice processing center . as shown in fig1 . c , voice processing center 130 receives the signals having rapid analysis of language comprehensive information of man 204 brain and phoneme - level sequence of spoken sentence of woman 202 . a voice processing center 130 is operated by a language area inference engine 170 which includes a “ human brain language areas knowledge base ”. the language area inference engine looks for identical natural language for received language comprehensive information in natural languages cache database . the natural languages cache database is a collection of natural language data . retrieval of original natural language is expensive owing to longer access time ; the cache is a cost effective way to store the original natural language or other computed languages . it acts like a temporary storage area where frequently accessed natural 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 natural language data . the natural languages cache database is thus an effective approach to achieve high scalability and performance . if there is no identical natural language information found in natural language areas cache database , language area inference engine looks for the identical natural language information from “ human brain language areas knowledge base ”. if any identical characteristics found in “ human brain language areas knowledge base ” then language area inference engine selects the corresponding natural language name and it stores in natural language areas cache database for future references . the identified natural language information fed into speech translation module 180 for speech translation . the accurate translation of input speech is done by sophisticated parser 182 , phrase / word translator 186 and generation module 188 . the speech translation module 180 comprises the parser 182 , information extractor 184 , phrase / word translator 186 and generation module 188 . the parser 182 performs the process of prediction including complete semantic interpretations , constraint checks , and ambiguity resolution and discourse interpretations . the parser 182 handles multiple hypotheses in parallel rather than a single word sequence . as shown in fig1 . c , a phrase / word translator and generation module 188 are designed to generate the appropriate spoken sentences with correct articulation control . as shown in fig1 . c , the language dictionaries contains the set of grammatical rules of all natural languages ( which are spoken in the world ) and all natural language words alphabetically , with definitions , etymologies , phonetics , pronunciations . the language dictionaries provide an input to phrase / word translator during the conversation , and is continuously up - dated during processing . thus , the appropriate sentence has been generated for spoken sentence of woman 202 to the natural language of man ( as shown in fig2 . a )— as shown in 208 of fig2 . a where brain language areas of man 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 module 188 process is invoked after parsing is completed ; this system concurrently executes the generation process during parsing . 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 vocal expression of woman 202 during the parsing of the rest of the vocal expression of woman 202 . thus this system stimulates a live feeling — where one speaks and instantaneously the intended recipients can comprehend the speech in their natural languages . the “ automated speech translation system using human brain language areas comprehension capabilities ” of present invention handles the bi - directional conversations . this system provides the bidirectional 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 . f 1 g . 2 . b illustrates the conversation between friends who are all foreign - language speaking people . vietnamese speaking person is saying “ this food is delicious ” in his natural language such as shown in 216 , this sentence is comprehended as shown in 218 by the catalan speaking person , as shown in 220 by finnish speaking person , and as shown in 222 by hebrew speaking person and also as shown in 224 by english speaking person . the finnish speaking person acknowledges back to them in his natural as shown in 226 . others comprehend the finnish sentence as shown in 228 , as shown in 230 , as shown in 232 respectively using present invention of “ automated speech translation system using human brain language areas comprehension capabilities ”. similarly , fig2 . c illustrates a business conversation . a boss 234 is asking as shown in 236 to his subordinates . his subordinates are a chinese woman 238 , bulgarian man 240 , and danish woman 242 . the boss &# 39 ; s spoken dialog is comprehended as shown in 244 by chinese speaking woman , as shown in 246 by bulgarian speaking man , and as shown in 248 danish speaking woman respectively using present invention of “ automated speech translation system using human brain language areas comprehension capabilities ”. flg . 2 . d illustrates the spokesman 250 is giving a speech in his natural language spanish as shown in 252 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 254 , by korean speaking person as shown in 256 , by hindi speaking person as shown in 258 , by hungarian speaking person as shown in 260 , and by portuguese speaking person , as shown in 262 , using present invention of “ automated speech translation system using human brain language areas comprehension capabilities ”. 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 natural languages without the use of any handheld 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 . 1 . “ how the brain learns to read ” by david a . sousa 2 . “ natural language generation in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics ” by c & amp ; 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