Patent ID: 6477239
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: G09B,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
A sign language telephone device, comprising:a videophone device; sign language telephone control device operatively connected to said videophone device via a network, which translates an input sign language, generates synthesized voices for transmission to said videophone device via said network, recognizes voices from said videophone device, and generates a sign language animation from the recognized results for a visual display, said sign language telephone control device comprising: sign-language-to-text language-translation subsystem comprising: a sign language recognition unit which recognizes an inputted sign language in a first language to a sign language words train in said first language; a sign-language-to-text language-translation unit which translates the recognized sign language words train in said first language to a text language words train in said first language; and a voice synthesizing unit which synthesizes the translated text language words train as voices; a text language-to-sign-language-translation subsystem comprising a voice recognition unit which recognizes the voices received from said videophone device and translates the recognized voices into a sign language words train; and a gesture to sign language animation conversion unit which generates animations by using positional data of gestures in said inputted sign language.