Patents by Inventor Yumi Nishida

Yumi Nishida has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Language translator which recognizes and indicates prepositional or indefinite phrases and relative clauses
    Patent number: 5023786
    Abstract: A translating apparatus including a morphological analysis portion for dividing an inputted sentence of a source language into a string of morphemes; a syntactic analysis portion for analyzing a construction of the string of the morphemes; a conversion portion for converting the inputted sentence into a target language; a translation generation portion for generating a translated sentence of the target language; a syntactic decision device which decides whether or not a prepositional or indefinite phrase for modifying a verb or a relative clause of nonrestrictive use accompanied by a comma located immediately before the phrase exists in the string of the morphemes; and a symbol generating device which generates in the translated sentence, first and second symbols indicative, respectively, of a start position and an end position of the relative clause or the prepositional or indefinite phrase found by the syntactic decision device such that a translation of the relative clause or the prepositional or indefinit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuzo Kugimiya, Hitoshi Suzuki, Yoji Fukumoshi, Ichiko Sata, Tokuyuki Hirai, Yumi Nishida