Patent ID: 6181778
Filing Date: 2001-01-30
Classification: G09B,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
A sign language telephone system comprising:a videophone device; anda 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 recognized results for a visual display, said sign language telephone control device comprising:a sign-language-to-Japanese-translation subsystem comprising:a sign language recognition unit which recognizes and translates the input sign language to a sign language words train;a sign-language-to-Japanese-translation unit which translates the sign language words train into Japanese;a voice synthesizing unit which synthesizes the translated Japanese as voices; anda gesture-to-sign language animation conversion unit which generates animations by using positional data of hand gestures from the input sign language; anda Japanese-to-sign-language-translation subsystem comprising which translates voices from said videophone device into a sign language words train.