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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Masaru Ohki, Tokorozawa, JP;
Hirohiko Sagawa, Kokubunji, JP;
Tomoko Sakiyama, Chicago, IL (US);
Hisashi Ikeda, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiromichi Fujisawa, Tokorozawa, JP;
Nobuo Hataoka, Tsukui, JP;
Youichi Kaneko, Kodaira, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sign language telephone device is offered which enables an aurally handicapped person who uses the sign language to converse with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language. The sign language telephone device is placed on the side of the aurally handicapped person, and hand gestures of the sign language inputted from a sign language input means are recognized as the sign language, and the recognized sign language is translated to Japanese. The translated Japanese word train is converted to synthesized voices and it is transmitted to a videophone on the side of a normal person. The voices from the videophone are recognized, and the recognized Japanese is translated to the sign language to generate sign language animations and they are displayed on the screen of a TV set on the side of the aurally handicapped person. According to the present invention, it is made possible for an aurally handicapped person to have conversation easily with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language through an existing network.