Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Nakagiri

Katsuya Suzuki

Tetsuaki Otsuki

Map label translation implementations described herein transliterate and translate map labels in a first language, even those written in a non-Latin script, into a Latin script and into a second language. In some implementations a translation candidate generator process generates possible translation candidate sequences for each n-gram in the map label, for example, an entity's name in Japanese and possibly in native Japanese (non-Latin, non-Roman) script. A candidate sequence selector selects a number of top possible translation candidate sequences. A ranking feature extraction process is used to rank the selected top number of top possible translation candidate sequences by using a trained probabilistic classifier and geospatial and linguistic context information as ranking features. A post ranker then re-ranks the selected ranked translation candidates depending on neighboring proximity information around the location of the entity and outputs the best map label translation in the second language.

Machine map label translation

A speech voice input to the microphone is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter . An encoder in turn spreads the digital signal using a spread spectrum scheme and the spread signal is supplied to the modulator . A modulator modulates a carrier wave (e.g., a frequency of 800 MHz) with the spread signal and the modulated wave is transmitted from an antenna . A high-frequency signal is induced in a paired cable of a headset by the transmitted wave. The high-frequency signal transferred in the direction to the telephone unit through the cable is eliminated by an LPF . On the other hand, the high-frequency signal transferred to a headphone passes through a capacitor to a ground level. Thus, the entry of the transmitted signal into the amplifier and the headphone can be avoided, and an occurrence of noise in the headphone can be prevented.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Nakagiri