SYSTEM FOR INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATIONS

• US 20140278348A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tahan A. Christian
• Original Assignee: Tahan A. Christian
• Inventors: Tahan, A. Christian
• Application Number:
  US13/844,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20140278348A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/7
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 15/021 Electronic training devices specially adapted for dogs or cats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/00 Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04; devices or methods for replacing direct visual or auditory perception by another kind of perception A61F9/08, A61F11/04; audible indication of meter readings or of colour G01D7/12; watches for blind persons G04B25/02; speech analysis, speech recognition G10L; sound-recording or reproducing, per se G11B

Abstract

A system permitting communications between different organisms or species is disclosed.

Claims

1. A system for interspecies communications, comprising the steps of:

assigning symbols or pictures that would be recognized to represent specific words, sounds, or needs by a different species or organism.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the symbols or pictures are on a platform for easy access by a species.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the platform is a means of display that can be mounted to surfaces.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the platform is portable.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the symbols or pictures are words or sounds that are used to represent inputted sounds or recorded body movements or posturing through a camera or microphone on the platform.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the words or sounds are translations as part of a library database.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the pictures or symbols are photographs or images of objects or needs.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the pictures or symbols are images dissimilar in appearance to desired objects or needs used to represent the objects or needs.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein one species or organism uses the symbols or pictures to communicate with a different species or organism.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein sounds are assigned to the pictures or symbols.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the symbols or pictures can be removed or replaced and can be assigned to represent different words, sounds, or needs.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein a means to record sounds related to the pictures or symbols exists.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein a microphone exists for a species or organism to input sounds or vocalizations.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein a library database is contained in the platform containing the pictures or symbols that contains the recorded sounds or words associated with the pictures or symbols.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein a library database in the platform is a translation library for sounds or vocalizations allowing for translation from the input of one species or organism to the output of a word or sound of a different species or organism.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein a speaker exists to hear sounds assigned to pictures or symbols or to hear the translations of sounds or vocalizations from species inputted through the microphone.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein a camera exists to record the body movements or posturing of a species with the camera containing or being part of a screen for observing the body movements or posturing.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein a library database in the platform has a translation library for body movement or posturing that is inputted with the camera to be outputted as a word or sound through the speaker for a different species to understand.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein a playback button exists to hear or view the sound or body posturing or movement input of species or organisms.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein dials can be set to make the platform for communications between specific organisms or species.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein dials can be set to distinguish between genders of different species or for communications between genders of the same species.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the platform is wired or wirelessly connected to a LAN or WAN including an Ethernet or Internet for accessing databases away from the platform.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the platform is networked to library databases at various locations thereby increasing the capability of the platform to translate inputs from organisms or species.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the platform is networked thereby allowing it to be scaleable to a multi-species system due to the connections to various library databases.

25. The method of claim 1, wherein the platform is networked thereby allowing the internal library/database to be searchable and part of the network of databases.

26. The method of claim 1, wherein the internal library/database can be updated with new words, sounds, body movements, or posturing from the networked library databases automatically or periodically particularly when the networked databases are updated with new content.

27. The method of claim 1, wherein the platform is networked so that when an update to the internal library/database occurs, other databases including other internal library/databases are automatically or periodically updated with the new content.

28. The method of claim 1, wherein the internal library/database is updated when one species presses the record button to record sounds related to pictures or symbols or related to inputted sounds or body movements or posturing due to preference or since the networked databases may not have recognized the inputted body movement or sound so that no translation was originally provided.

29. The method of claim 1, wherein a platform can be used for communications among the same species or organism, particularly when the species use different languages or body movements or posturing that may be foreign to a member of the species.

30. The method of claim 1, wherein the system is an analog display that is networked.

31. The method of claim 1, wherein the system is networked to other platforms through a wired or wireless connection.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein the system is a digital display that is networked.

33. The method of claim 1, whereby inputted sounds or body movements and posturing are translated to words or sounds in complete sentences due to a library database filling in missing words to complete sentences with the inputted sound or body movement translations.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the completed sentences permit conversations between species.

35. The method of claim 1, wherein systems can be in different locations for communications between species from different locations.

36. The method of claim 35, wherein the systems in different locations can be either analog or digital.

37. The method of claim 1, wherein the library database is at a database away from the platform or species interface.

38. The method of claim 1, wherein a library database in a platform is updated with new content from other networked databases at the discretion of a species using it.

39. The method of claim 1, wherein a device as a mobile phone or computer or any electronic device without the system is used to contact a platform in a different location to communicate with a species or organism.

40. The method of claim 39, wherein the input to the device is in the form of voice or sound communications.

41. The method of claim 39, wherein the input to the device is in the form of non-voice or sound communications as with the input of text.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein the text is converted to speech or vice versa by the platform receiving the communication.

43. The method of claim 2, wherein a platform contains multiple communication antennas or mediums to allow for different devices to communicate with it and for the platform to communicate with different devices.

44. The method of claim 1, wherein the system allows for the saving of communications or conversations on a platform or away from the platform in a network.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein transcripts of conversations can be provided including printed.

46. The method of claim 1, wherein the camera can monitor eye movement so that a symbol or picture can be activated with eye contact.

47. The method of claim 1, wherein memory can replace or be added to the system as through a specific insertion slot to upgrade the species library database or to allow the platform to be for specific species.