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Mobile wireless display providing speech to speech translation and avatar simulating human attributes

  • US 8,825,468 B2
  • Filed: 07/31/2008
  • Issued: 09/02/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A head-wearable monocular display device comprising:

  • a memory;

    a portable, miniature display configured to display multimedia content, wherein the multimedia content comprises an output audio signal and a corresponding video signal, the output audio signal being synchronized with the corresponding video signal;

    a speaker responsive to the output audio signal;

    a microphone configured to receive an audio signal including speech;

    a converter coupled to the microphone and configured to convert the received audio signal to a first digital representation of the audio signal, the first digital representation of the audio signal including language translation of the speech into a first language; and

    a controller configured to;

    (a) perform speech recognition of the first digital representation of the audio signal including recognizing the speech as translated into the first language;

    (b) compare the first digital representation of the audio signal to a lookup table stored in the memory;

    (c) convert the first digital representation of the audio signal to a control output based on the comparison, such that the control output is a function of the first language; and

    (d) output the control output to components of the device and enable interaction between the device and at least one external host computing device; and

    a wireless interface configured;

    (i) to interrogate and establish a wireless connection between the device and the at least one host computing device, (ii) to initiate a request for multimedia content by transmitting the control output in the form of a request to the at least one host computing device for multimedia content made available at a host display interface, wherein the control output is a function of the first language, and (iii) to receive multimedia content from the at least one host computing device in response to the request for multimedia content,wherein the head-wearable monocular display device is non-occlusive, and wherein the received multimedia content contains a second digital representation of the audio signal including a language translation of the speech included in the audio signal, the language translation translating the speech into a second language, the controller further configured to convert the second digital representation of the audio signal to a voice modulated audio signal including speech in the second language, the display and the speaker being responsive to the controller and rendering text representing a second digital representation of the audio signal synchronized with the voice modulated audio signal including speech in a second language.

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