Communication method

• US 7,664,531 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Issued: 02/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tahara, Yoshiko, Mitamura, Fumio, Kojima, Masakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): FERGUSON, KEITH
• Application Number:
  US11/529,386
• Publication Number:
  US 20070225048A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 455/550.1, 455/556, 455/90.1, 455/90.2, 455/90.3, 455/466, 455/403, 455/422.1, 455/575.1, 455/557, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 455/445, 348/14.01, 348/14.02
• US Class Current: 455/556.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72478 for hearing-impaired users
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is capable of communication and exchanging images with a different information processing apparatus, and comprises a storage unit for storing a display pattern dictionary including one or a plurality of finger character images, each finger character image corresponding to a character and/or a numeral and representing a finger character, an operation unit for inputting a character and/or a numeral, an image selecting unit for selecting, from the display pattern dictionary, a finger character image corresponding to the character and/or numeral input by the operation unit, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the selected finger character image to the different information processing apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus capable of communication and exchanging images with another information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit to display an image;

an operation unit to input an alphabet character and/or a numeral; and

a controller to control the apparatus according to a process comprising;

receiving a series of alphabet characters and/or numerals as input codes;

selecting, from a display pattern dictionary including one or a plurality of images, a plurality of images including a start image, one or a plurality of transitional images and a target image corresponding to the input codes;

displaying the start image on the display unit;

updating the display of the start image into the one or the plurality of transitional images and the target image in turn in accordance with a sequence of the input codes; and

a transmitting unit to transmit data corresponding to the target image to another information processing apparatus.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit to store the display pattern dictionary.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the process of the controller further comprises:

displaying a user interface with a plurality of display areas; and

displaying the plurality of images including the target image in one of the display areas; and

displaying an image received from the other information processing apparatus on another display area.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of images in the display pattern dictionary comprise hand still images including hand movements, wherein the target image is a sign language sign based upon the hand still images.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the process of the controller further comprises displaying a user interface to display a sequence of the input codes corresponding to the displayed hand still images.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the process of the controller further comprises allowing a sequence of the input codes to form a sentence in the sign language.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the target image is a sign language sign and the process of the controller further comprises, displaying only the input codes and transmitting only the input code, as the data corresponding to the target image.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting data comprises transmitting the input codes only, the plurality of images, the target images, or any combinations thereof, to the other information processing apparatus.

9. A method of communication and exchanging images with another information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

inputting an alphabet character and/or a numeral;

receiving a series of alphabet characters and/or numerals as input codes;

selecting, from a display pattern dictionary including one or a plurality of images including a start image, one or a plurality of transitional images and a target image, a plurality of images corresponding to the input codes respectively;

displaying the start image;

updating the display of the start image into the one or the plurality of transitional images and the target image in turn in accordance with a sequence of the input codes; and

transmitting data corresponding to the target image to another information processing apparatus.