Patent Document ID: 20080126099
Application ID: 11976469
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for representing information so as to be perceivable by a hearing-impaired person comprising causing to be displayed on a display device viewable by the person a plurality of images, the images comprising 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 a human body, 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; a remainder of the image being visually silent with respect to the person; the images, when displayed, one after another on the display device, representation information perceivable by the person via sign language.