Patent ID: 8562353
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for representing information so as to be perceivable by a hearing-impaired person comprising: producing a succession of viewable images using a computer, a motion picture camera or a video camera, the viewable images comprising predetermined visual markers representative of portions of a human body minimally necessary to communicate with the person via sign language, the visual markers, when viewed by the person, causing the person to extrapolate at least a portion of a human body involved in said sign language, the visual markers selected from the group including wherein the visual eye markers are a left visual eye marker and a right visual eye marker, the left and the right visual eye markers each including a first series of discrete marks placed along a upper-eye-shaped curve and a second series of discrete marks placed along a lower-eye-shaped curve associated with the upper-eye-shaped curve, the upper- and lower-eye-shaped curves being shaped appropriately to the one of a right eye and a left eye that is being represented; a remainder of the image being visually silent with respect to the person; and causing the viewable images to be displayed on a display device, the images, when displayed, one after another on the display device, representing information perceivable by the person via sign language.