Patent Document ID: 8562353
Application ID: 11976469
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
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 visual eye markers causing the person to extrapolate human eyes and their state and relative orientation with respect to the extrapolated human body, visual mouth markers causing the person to extrapolate a human mouth and its state and relative orientation with respect to the extrapolated human body, visual hand markers causing the person to extrapolate human hands and their state and their orientation and position with respect to each other and the extrapolated human body, and visual forearm markers causing the person to extrapolate human forearms and their relative orientation and position with respect to the extrapolated human body, 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.