The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for displaying subtitles by a multination language human-machine interface that having small memory space occupation and conveniently for program maintenance. First of all, a character database is been edited, and in accordance with the character size to edit the bitmap file for each individual character. The bitmap file is then transferred to 85c51xa assembly language and stored in the character database. Then, the “string code”, the “string combination code and position shifting code”, and the “string combination code of multination language and position shifting code” of the controlling program are established, and the content of the character database is been called. During a practical usage, the desired string is been called by the controlling program, then carried out the language judgement of the exercising nation. Next, in accordance with the characters included in the desired string, extracting from the character database, drawing the string and showing on the screen eventually.
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0. 5. An apparatus, comprising:
an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), configured to form an information structure for a plurality of strings, wherein the plurality of strings comprise characters that appear in a plurality of languages, the information structure comprising:
a plurality of bitmap files corresponding respectively to the characters; and
a plurality of string codes, wherein one or more string codes comprise:
a position shifting code comprising a horizontal shift component that provides an adjustment to a horizontal position of at least one of the characters, and a vertical shift component that provides an adjustment to a vertical position of at least one of the characters; and
a string combination code comprising a list of characters in the plurality of strings for the plurality of languages.
1. A method for displaying a subtitle of multilingual human-machine interface, the method comprisingthe steps of :
determining a string;
selecting a language for the string for establishing a character information structure, wherein said step of establishing comprisesthe steps of :
editing a respective bitmap file for each an individual character in accordance with the character's size and symbol;
transforming the bitmap file to an assembly language format;
storing the assembly language within said the bitmap file;
establishing a string code;
establishing a string combination code and a position shifting code;
establishing a multilingual string combination code and a multilingual position shifting code in accordance with the string combination code and the position shifting code;
developing the character information structure via a character database in accordance with the multilingual string combination code and the multilingual position shifting code;
extracting a character information from the character database in accordance with a character of said the string of the selected language; and
adjusting and displaying transmitting the string to a displaying device.
0. 14. A computer-readable storage medium whose contents, if executed, cause a computer system to perform a method for displaying a string in a plurality of languages, comprising:
storing a plurality of character bitmap files of characters, at least a subset of which appear in at least two separate languages and are associated with corresponding character bitmap files, wherein the corresponding character bitmap files are used in more than one language;
storing a plurality of information structures pertaining respectively to individual strings, the information structures comprising:
a plurality of character lists respectively containing characters that spell one of the individual strings in at least one of the separate languages; and
a position shifting code comprising at least one of a horizontal or a vertical position shift for the characters in the string, wherein the shift is at least partly based upon the language of the string;
receiving a country selection from a country selection program configured to indicate a display language;
displaying the string by:
retrieving from the information structure the character list and the position shifting code that pertains to the display language;
retrieving the character bitmap files listed in the character list;
shifting at least one of a horizontal or a vertical position of characters in the string, based at least in part upon the position shifting code; and
displaying the string on a display.
0. 9. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, if executed, cause a computing system to perform a method for displaying a subtitle of a multilingual human-machine interface, the method comprising:
receiving a string;
storing a plurality of string codes comprising a string combination code and a position shifting code, wherein the string combination code comprises one or more lists of characters, the lists pertaining respectively to at least one of a plurality of languages to describe the string in the plurality of languages, and wherein the position shifting code comprises instructions to adjust at least one of a horizontal position or a vertical position of one or more of the characters according to the language of the string;
forming a respective bitmap file for at least one character of the plurality of characters, wherein at least one of the characters appears in the string in two or more of the plurality of languages;
storing the respective bitmap file for the characters in a character database;
determining a language of the string;
forming an information structure for the string based at least in part on the string combination code, the language of the string, and the position shifting code;
obtaining one or more bitmap files from the character database to spell the string based at least in part upon the information structure;
adjusting at least one of the horizontal or vertical position of at least one character based at least in part upon the information structure;
displaying the string on a display device in accordance with the information structure.
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0. 6. The apparatus of
receive a string;
select a language for the string from among the plurality of languages, wherein the selection is performed by a country selection program;
assemble the string in the selected language by retrieving a list of characters pertaining to the selected language from the string combination code and retrieving the respective bitmap file for the characters in the string;
adjust a position of at least one character, the adjustment being based at least in part upon the position shifting code; and
provide the one or more retrieved characters to a display device.
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This application is a continuation-in-part (CIP) application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/418,039, filed Oct. 14, 1999.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an improved method and apparatus for displaying and adjusting subtitles by a multination language human-machine interface, and more particularly, to an improved method and apparatus for displaying and adjusting subtitles by a multination language human-machine interface that having small memory space occupation and conveniently for program maintenance.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Three sorts of different language subtitle, such as English, French and Germany, been displayed on monitors are shown in
Thus, because of solving two drawbacks which have been introduced, an improved method and apparatus for displaying subtitles of multination language human-machine interface that substantially occupies smaller memory space and easy for program maintenance is provided.
Although the said method can reach the purposes which can occupies smaller memory space and easy for program maintenance, the string is handled by the method of uniformly lining up to the left and displaying the subtitle of multination language shows the different length will make display screen not clean and beautiful. Hence, for solving this drawback, an improved method and apparatus for displaying and adjusting subtitles of multination language human-machine interface that can adjust the right position of different strings of multination characters is provided.
An objective of the present invention is to transfer the requiring characters, figures, and symbols to a character database, that is provided to be called by a controlling program and been used in a combination in achieving the target of saving memory space. In another objective of the present invention, as referring to a same meaning of multination language strings in different lengths, and in accordance with the character number of the “string combination code of multination language”, the combination of the relative string length and the calling usage for the character database can be adjusted elastically.
In a further objective of the present invention, a fixed information structure of strings makes maintenance and adjustment easier. In a last objective of the present invention, the controlling program and the information structure are easy to be adjusted while the microprocessor is been replaced.
The principle technological thoughts of the present invention are: (1) A country selection program is designed within the human-machine interface system, which is capable in transferring the subtitle into the relative different nation's language. (2) Characters used by many different nations' language, such as English, French, German, ect., are repeated in a great amount, this characteristic can be specified as to provide repeats in calling usage for the controlling program while building up the character database. (3) Adjusting the different position of the multination language in accordance with different strings, which would make screen more beautiful and simplify the method that adjust the position of string less complicated.
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for displaying subtitles by a multination language human-machine interface. First of all, a character database is been edited, and in accordance with the character size to edit the bitmap file for each individual character. The bitmap file is then transferred to 80c51xa assembly language and stored in the character database. Then, the “string code”, the “string combination code and position shifting code”, and the “string combination code of multination language and position shifting code” of the controlling program are established, and the content of the character database is been called. During a practical usage, the desired string is been called by the controlling program, then carried out the language judgement of the exercising nation. Next, in accordance with the characters included in the desired string, extracting from the character database, drawing the string and showing on the screen eventually.
The foregoing aspects and many of the attendant advantages of this invention will become more readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
First of all, the information structure been used by the present invention is been illustrated, where
The following program exemplification is based on three commonly used international languages, that are, English, French and German, where the program for different nations' language selection and the character bitmap file of the calling character database for the present invention is shown. The first step of program model is to define the string code and character combination code. Normally the character combination code of multiple language is defined after the combination code of character defined. And then the necessary character number and the character database for substantially calling are all defined. Therefore the whole program is written as the following:
Setup_str:
DW STRING, X pos, Y pos, S_Setup;
DW 80H
S_Setup:
DW ENG_Setup, FRE_Setup, Deu_Setup;
ENG_Setup:
DB 5, 0, 0, 00H;
DW C_B_S, C_B_E, C_B_T, C_B_U, C_B_P;
FRE_Setup:
DB 7, −3, 1, 00H;
DW C_B_C, C_B_O, C_B_N, C_B_F, C_B_I, C_B_G,
C_B_Dot;
Deu_Setup:
DB 9, −10, 0, 00H;
DW C_B_E, C_B_I, C_B_N, C_B_R, C_B_I, C_B_C,
C_B_H, C_B_T, C_B_Dot;
Wherein:
While the invention has been described by way of examples and in terms of one preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention need not be limited to the disclosed embodiments. On the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims, the scope of which showed be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar structures.
Chien, Cheng-Pang, Tsai, Kun-Shan, Lee, Tian-Quey
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