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A sign language telephone device is offered which enables an aurally handicapped person who uses the sign language to converse with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language. The sign language telephone device is placed on the side of the aurally handicapped person, and

A sign language telephone device is offered which enables an aurally handicapped person who uses the sign language to converse with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language. The sign language telephone device is placed on the side of the aurally handicapped person, and hand gestures of the sign language inputted from a sign language input means are recognized as the sign language, and the recognized sign language is translated to Japanese. The translated Japanese word train is converted to synthesized voices and it is transmitted to a videophone on the side of a normal person. The voices from the videophone are recognized, and the recognized Japanese is translated to the sign language to generate sign language animations and they are displayed on the screen of a TV set on the side of the aurally handicapped person. According to the present invention, it is made possible for an aurally handicapped person to have conversation easily with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language through an existing network.

대표청구항 ▼

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A sign language telephone system comprising:a videophone device; anda sign language telephone control device operatively connected to said videophone device via a network, which translates an input sign language, generates synthesized voices for transmission to said video

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A sign language telephone system comprising:a videophone device; anda sign language telephone control device operatively connected to said videophone device via a network, which translates an input sign language, generates synthesized voices for transmission to said videophone device via said network, recognizes voices from said videophone device, and generates a sign language animation from recognized results for a visual display, said sign language telephone control device comprising:a sign-language-to-Japanese-translation subsystem comprising:a sign language recognition unit which recognizes and translates the input sign language to a sign language words train;a sign-language-to-Japanese-translation unit which translates the sign language words train into Japanese;a voice synthesizing unit which synthesizes the translated Japanese as voices; anda gesture-to-sign language animation conversion unit which generates animations by using positional data of hand gestures from the input sign language; anda Japanese-to-sign-language-translation subsystem comprising which translates voices from said videophone device into a sign language words train.