METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR CONTROLLING LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS USING TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY SCREENS

摘要

As social networks such as Twitter become an integral part of a growing number of smartphone and tablet apps and other software, app users more frequently encounter brief foreign language comments from other users. The invention provides a convenient touch screen user interface and method by which a user, with a minimal set of finger touches, may request a translation of such foreign language comments without otherwise leaving the app display screen where the comment was originally found. By using the appropriate set of finger movements, the user's device can be directed to first initiate translation, and then display the translation in a user finger gesture controlled manner in which the comment may be viewed both in its original language and in the foreign language. When the user is satisfied, the app can then resume operations at its original initiating display screen.

主权项

1. A method of simultaneously displaying original language writing and translated language writing on the touch sensitive display screen of a computerized device, said translated language writing corresponding to a computer translation of said original language writing, said method comprising:
using a computerized device to obtain said original language writing; displaying said original language writing on a first location of said touch sensitive display screen of said computerized device; obtaining the original language type of said original language writing; obtaining the user's desired translated language type; either before or upon receiving a user initiate translation trigger event on said first location of said touch sensitive display screen, using said original language type, said desired translated language type, and at least one computer processor and memory to automatically translate said original language writing to said translated language writing; upon receiving a user show translation trigger event on said first location of said touch sensitive display screen, replacing at least portions of said original language writing on said first location of said touch sensitive display screen with at least portions of said translated language writing on said first location of said touch sensitive display screen, thus producing at least transiently a composite first location of said touch sensitive display screen displaying both at least portions of said original language writing and at least portions of said translated language writing.