Patent ID: 7287984
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A system for pictorially communicating to sighted persons who cannot read a standard alphanumeric text, the informational content of that text comprising: data entering means for acquiring alphanumeric text; encoding means for converting said alphanumeric text into a machine-readable set of informationally corresponding data; recognition and decoding means for correlating said informational content data set with one or more hieroglyphs that are representative of the actions, physical objects and the relationship between said actions and said physical objects presented by said informationally corresponding data set and arranging said one or more hieroglyphs syntactically to pictorially represent said informationally corresponding data set for said sighted persons thereby to inform said sighted person of said actions, objects and the relationship between said actions and said objects as was originally presented in said standard alphanumeric text; and wherein said machine-readable set of informationally corresponding data comprises a flat Braille symbology.