Patent Document ID: 5473705
Application ID: 08029046

Base Claim:
1. A sign language translation system, comprising: input means for inputting motion of hands as electric signals; sign language word generating means for recognizing words in accordance with said input electric signals and generating sign language words; storage means for storing conjugations or translations of said generated sign language words and postpositions or auxiliary verbs to be supplemented between said generated sign language words; dependence analyzing means for analyzing a dependence relationship between successive ones of said recognized words in accordance with said stored translations of said recognized words and outputting analyzed results; spoken language generating means for generating, in accordance with said analyzed results, an audibly communicated sentence by supplementing said stored postpositions or auxiliary verbs and providing said stored conjugations of conjugative words; and output means for outputting said generated spoken language.

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Claim 14:
14. A sign language translation system according to claim 1, wherein said output means outputs synthesized images of the hand motion corresponding to a sign language wherein the dependence between said recognized words is analyzed using said recognized results, and a predetermined process is executed using said analyzed results to generate said spoken language by supplementing omitted words and providing the conjugations of a conjugative word.