Patent ID: 8422999

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: a communicator that allows communicating over a channel and also includes a camera therein and has a display which displays communication information and also displays information from said camera; and a processor, operable as part of said communicator, said processor obtaining an image from said camera, and image processing the image in a way that converts the image to a different form in a way that increases a readability of readable characters within the image to create a converted image, and creating a display output on said display that displays said characters in said converted image in a way that has enhanced readability, wherein said processor operates to translate a language of words within the image by obtaining digital information from the readable characters, sending said digital information over the channel using the communicator, and receiving translation information over the channel responsive to the sending of the digital information over the channel, the received translation information being indicative of a translated version of the words within the image, and wherein said output is indicative of a translated version of said words within the image, wherein said processor carries out said image processing to image process the image to characterize each portion of the image as being either a light portion or a dark portion by characterizing the image to find a median among most bright parts of the image and among least bright parts of the image, and characterizing the parts of the image by comparing them to the median, and displaying converted characters forming the image as including only light portions and dark portions.