HAND-HELD COMMUNICATION AID FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AUDITORY, SPEECH AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS
First Claim
1. A hand-held communication aid for facilitating communication of individuals with auditory, speech and visual impairments with normal individuals and individual with auditory, speech and visual impairments, the communication aid comprising:
- a communication means facilitating real-time remote communication with other communication devices;
an input means adapted to input a at least one type of message inputs to the said communication means;
a user input fed into the said communication means by first user with at least one impairment including visual, auditory and/or speech impairments, the said first user communicating over a communication link with at least one second user with none or at least one impairment including visual, auditory and/or speech impairments;
a data handler adapted to integrate and disintegrate plurality of data elements during message transmission and reception at the sender and receiver communication means;
a data format converting means adapted to convert at least one data format into at least one another data format during sending and receiving messages through the said communication means;
an artificial intelligence means adapted to generate at least one complete output in at least one data format consistent with at least one input element to data format converting means;
a user personalization means adapted to identify and create at least one individual caller profile on the said communication means; and
an user interface for interactively receiving the messages and acting as a display means.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a hand-held communication aid and method that assists the deaf-dumb and visually impaired individuals to communicate with each other and with normal individuals. The method enables deaf-dumb and visually impaired individuals to communicate with each other and with normal individuals on remote communication means without any hardware improvisation. The method enables face to face communication and remote communication aid for deaf-dumb and visually impaired individuals. This method requires no modifications in hand-held communication device used by normal individual.
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11 Claims
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1. A hand-held communication aid for facilitating communication of individuals with auditory, speech and visual impairments with normal individuals and individual with auditory, speech and visual impairments, the communication aid comprising:
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a communication means facilitating real-time remote communication with other communication devices; an input means adapted to input a at least one type of message inputs to the said communication means; a user input fed into the said communication means by first user with at least one impairment including visual, auditory and/or speech impairments, the said first user communicating over a communication link with at least one second user with none or at least one impairment including visual, auditory and/or speech impairments; a data handler adapted to integrate and disintegrate plurality of data elements during message transmission and reception at the sender and receiver communication means; a data format converting means adapted to convert at least one data format into at least one another data format during sending and receiving messages through the said communication means; an artificial intelligence means adapted to generate at least one complete output in at least one data format consistent with at least one input element to data format converting means; a user personalization means adapted to identify and create at least one individual caller profile on the said communication means; and an user interface for interactively receiving the messages and acting as a display means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for facilitating communication of individuals with auditory, speech and visual impairments with normal individuals and individual with auditory, speech and visual impairments, the method comprising the steps of:
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feeding a user input into a sender communication means by first user with at least one impairment including visual, auditory and/or speech impairments, the said first user communicating over a communication link with at least one second user with none or at least one impairment including visual, auditory and/or speech impairments having receiver communication means; training a receiver communication means to create at least one user profile adapted to recognize the user speech encoding; a sender with one or more impairments selecting at least one input means from the group of keypad, stylus, touch screen, camera and Braille keyboard on a sender communication means; formalizing selectively an input data format into at least one formalized data format in accordance with the receiving user status, including the user status from the group of one or more impairments of the said user by means of a data formatting option selection means associated with the said sender communication means; transmitting said formalized data from the sender communication means to at least one remote receiver communication means; receiving the transmitted data at a receiver communication means; extracting at least one feature of the received data by means of a data handler adapted to integrate and disintegrate plurality of data elements at the receiver communication means; invoking at least one user profile trained and stored in a receiver communication means in accordance with the received data format by a personalization means; formalizing selectively the received data format in accordance with the receiver selection by means of a data formatting option selection means associated with the said receiver communication means; and generating at least one sensible data output in sequential manner by means of data conversion means and intuitively by means of an associated artificial intelligence module in accordance with the data format selection by the receiver.
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11. A system and method substantially as herein described with reference to and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
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