JP2003058454A - Remote multilanguage multiuser communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a user information management server in a remote multilanguage multiuser communication system from assuming calculation load and network load. SOLUTION: Each of translation servers 13 translates each of various pairs of languages. A user information management server 12 transmits user data such as a user's face image, conversation voice, a chat text, and data including texts received from a user terminal 11 to other user terminals. Translation middleware 14 translates only a text part to be translated from a translation original received from a data reading user terminal by using the translation server 13 and transmits the translated result to the data reading user terminal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a user who speaks a different language as a mother tongue when participating in a remote conference or a remote lesson.
The present invention relates to a system for automatically translating and providing materials and text chats according to each user's native language.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the prior art, there is no remote-participation type communication system that automatically translates and provides materials in the language desired by each user.

Users personally http: //sangenjaya.arc.
I was able to translate the provided material using a machine translation home page such as net.my/sent/index-j.html.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The problem to be solved by the present invention is to manage the transaction of translated data so that the user information management server of the multilingual remote multi-user communication system is not burdened with calculation and network load. is there.

[0005]

According to the present invention, a user information management server transmits or receives user data between a material providing user terminal and a material browsing user terminal, and a translation middleware is a material browsing user terminal. Only the text part to be translated from the translated manuscript data received from the translation server is translated using the translation server, and the result of the translation is transmitted to the material browsing user terminal, so that the data processing related to the translation is performed between the document browsing user terminal and the data browsing user terminal. This is performed only between the translation middleware and the translation server so that the user information management server is not overloaded, and is characterized by the following configuration.

(1) Materials provided by a material providing user, in which a plurality of users at remote locations communicate with each other using face images, voices, and text chats by using user terminals connected to a network. Is a multilingual remote multi-user communication system for converting and supplying the data into a language desired by a user, and a plurality of translation servers connected to the network and performing translation between various pairs of languages, and the network. A user information management server, which is connected to the user terminal and transmits user data such as a face image of the user received from the user terminal, conversation voice, chat text, and materials including the text to another user terminal; Connected to the network, the text part to be translated from the translated manuscript received from the material browsing user terminal Was translated using the translation server, the translation result is characterized in that a translation middleware to send to the document browsing user terminal.

(2) The translation middleware can extract only the text portion to be translated from the translation manuscript received from the material browsing user terminal and can translate it into the language desired by the user of the translation server. Select a translation server,
This text is converted into a data format desired by the translation server and transmitted, the translation result is received by the translation server, the translation result is converted into the same data format as the translated manuscript, and then the data is browsed to the user terminal It is characterized by transmitting.

(3) The translation middleware is characterized by obtaining translation results between languages which cannot be realized by a single translation server, by translation control combining a plurality of translation servers.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a network configuration diagram of a multilingual remote multi-user communication system. 11
Is a user terminal. Reference numeral 12 is a user information management server. Each user terminal 11 is connected to this user information management server 1
Through 2, it is possible to transmit or receive data such as a face image obtained by photographing the face of each user as a moving image, conversation voice, chat text, and materials including text.

Reference numeral 13 is a translation server. Translation server 13
It is desirable that, like the examples of the Japanese-English translation server, the Japanese-Chinese translation server, and the English-Japanese translation server, servers that perform translation between various pairs of languages are connected to the network.

Reference numeral 14 is a translation middleware. The translation middleware 14 extracts only the text portion to be translated from the received translation manuscript data, selects the translation server 13 capable of translation into the language desired by the user, and selects this text as the data desired by the translation server 13. Convert to format and send.

The translation middleware 14 also has a role of extracting only the text portion from the translation result received from the translation server and converting it into the same data format as the translated original.

FIG. 2 is an example of a screen of the user terminal 11.
The client program of the multilingual remote multi-user communication system running on the user terminal 11 is
Communication screen 21 for displaying information such as face image, name, and gesture of each user on the screen
Then, a translation manuscript display screen 22 for displaying a manuscript of shared material such as conference material, a translation result display screen 23 for displaying a result of translating this shared material, and a text chat window 24 are displayed.

In the text chat window 24, the original text to be translated and the text resulting from the translation are displayed in a format in which it is possible to know from which user the input was made and which translation the original text corresponds to. To be done.

FIG. 3 shows the structure of the user information management server 12. The user information management server 12 receives communication data such as a face image obtained by shooting the face of each user by moving images, conversation voice, and chat text from each user terminal, and appropriately distributes the communication data to other user terminals. It comprises a control unit 12A and a shared material distribution unit 12B which receives a document as a conference material from each user terminal and appropriately distributes it to other user terminals.

FIG. 4 illustrates the flow from when a translated manuscript is provided from one user terminal until the translation result is received by another user terminal. The term "translated manuscript" as used herein refers to text data input by chat and text such as conference materials.

(S1) The translated manuscript provided from a certain user terminal is transmitted to the user information management server.

(S2) The user information management server distributes the translated manuscript through the communication data control unit 12A or the shared material distribution unit 12B to the user terminal who wants to browse the material.

(S3) The material browsing user terminal transmits to the translation middleware together with the translated manuscript of the received material, together with the language used for the translated manuscript and the desired translation language name.

(S4) The translation middleware selects a translation server based on this information, converts the translated manuscript into a data format desired by the corresponding translation server, and sends it to the translation server.

(S5) The translation server sends the translation result text obtained by translating the translation original to the translation middleware.

(S6) The translation middleware which received the translation result text converts it into the same data format as the original translation original and sends it to the material browsing user terminal.

If the translation requested by the user cannot be realized by using a single translation server, the translation middleware 14 examines whether the requirements can be satisfied by using a plurality of translation servers in combination. For example, two servers, a Japanese-English translation server and an English-Chinese translation server, can be used with this system, but if the user requests to translate Japanese chat text into Chinese, the Japanese-English translation server After the translation manuscript is once translated into English using, the procedure is to translate it into Chinese using the English-Chinese translation server and provide it to the user.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, the user information management server transmits or receives the user data between the material providing user terminal and the material browsing user terminal, and the translation middleware uses the material browsing. Only the text part that should be translated from the translated manuscript data received from the user terminal is translated using the translation server, and this translation result is sent to the user browsing user terminal, so it is necessary for the user information management server to translate. It is possible to suppress the influence on communication data processing such as delay of conversation voice transmission between user terminals through the user information management server.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a network configuration diagram of a multilingual remote multi-user communication system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of a user terminal screen in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a user information management server according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flow of text translation according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... User terminal 12 ... User information management server 13 ... Translation server 14 ... Translation middleware 12A ... Communication data control unit 12B ... Shared material distribution unit 21 ... Communication screen 22 ... Translated manuscript display screen 23 ... Translation result display screen 24 ... Text chat window

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of remote users use a user terminal connected to a network to communicate with each other using face image, voice, and text chat, and provide a material provided by a material providing user. A multilingual remote multi-user communication system for converting and supplying to a language desired by a user who browses data, comprising a plurality of translation servers, each of which is connected to the network and performs translation between various pairs of languages; User's face image that is connected and received from the user terminal, conversation voice, chat text,
And a user information management server that transmits user data such as materials including text to other user terminals, and only the text portion to be translated from the translated manuscript received from the material browsing user terminals, which is connected to the network. Translation middleware that translates using the translation server and transmits the translation result to the material browsing user terminal,
A multilingual remote multi-user communication system characterized by being equipped with. 2. The translation middleware according to claim 1, wherein the translation middleware extracts only a text portion to be translated from a translation manuscript received from the material browsing user terminal, and translates into a language desired by the user of the translation server. A translation server that is capable of converting the text into a data format desired by the translation server, sends the translated text, the translation server receives the translated result, and the translated result has the same data format as the translated manuscript. A multilingual remote multi-user communication system characterized by transmitting the data to a user terminal after reading the data. 3. The multilingual system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the translation middleware obtains a translation result between languages which cannot be realized by a single translation server, by translation control combining the plurality of translation servers. Remote multi-user communication system.