In view of this, fundamental purpose of the present invention, be to provide a kind of electronic type sign language dictionary device, can increase the convenience of user when inquiry sign language glossary and its gesture of reading, simultaneously can utilize the animation mode to represent the sign language gesture, allow the user be learnt correct gesture more easily, be unlikely appearance falsehood in study.
According to above-mentioned purpose, the present invention proposes a kind of electronic type sign language dictionary device, and it comprises: input media for example similarly is a keyboard, in order to receive the glossary to be looked into of input; First memory, in order to the glossary above-mentioned to be looked into that temporary transient storage is imported, (Random Access Memory RAM) realizes can to utilize random access memory; Second memory, in order to store animation indexing information, animation frame data bank and primary control program, wherein the animation indexing information is the relation with a plurality of animation frame storage location in above-mentioned animation frame data bank that decides sign language word remittance and its correspondence, the animation frame data bank then is the animation frame that is used for storing corresponding to the sign language glossary, it can utilize ROM (read-only memory), and (Read Only Meory ROM) is implemented; Actuating unit, for example central processing unit can be used for carrying out above-mentioned primary control program, looks into correspondence looked in glossary in above-mentioned animation indexing information storage location according to waiting, and finds out corresponding a plurality of animation frame from the animation frame data bank; And display device, LCD (Liquid CrystalDisplay for example, LCD), in order to show a sign language glossary tabulation form and a sign language glossary animation form simultaneously, wherein sign language glossary tabulation form is to be used for showing supplying the sign language glossary of inquiry, and the animation frame of sign language glossary animation form in order to show that in regular turn above-mentioned primary control program is found out.
In addition, second memory storage then can comprise true man's speech information pool, then can be in above-mentioned animation indexing information simultaneously with the relation that decides sign language word remittance and its corresponding true man's voice data storage location in true man's speech information pool, and on display device, demonstrate in the animation frame, play true man's voice data of finding out.
The present invention also provides a kind of sign language querying method of electronic type sign language dictionary device, and is same, provides earlier as above-mentioned animation indexing information and animation frame data bank.Receive input wait look into glossary after, then wait to look into the above-mentioned animation indexing information of Zihui enquiring, to find out corresponding to a plurality of animation frame memory location in the animation frame data bank of waiting to look into glossary according to this.Then according to the memory location of finding out, by finding out corresponding animation frame in the animation frame data bank.At last on display device, show sign language glossary tabulation form and sign language glossary animation form simultaneously, above-mentioned sign language glossary tabulation form can supply the sign language glossary of inquiry in order to show, and above-mentioned sign language glossary animation form is in order to show the above-mentioned animation frame of being found out in regular turn.By this, the user can directly see sign language glossary and its corresponding sign language gesture, and the gesture of sign language simultaneously is to represent in the animation mode, to learn correct sign language gesture.
In addition, at true man's part of pronouncing, then comprise the following steps.One true man's speech information pool is provided; Receive input wait look into glossary after, then determine the storage location of pairing true man's voice data in above-mentioned true man's speech information pool according to this glossary to be looked into, and, find out true man's voice data of waiting to look into glossary according to the storage location of pairing true man's voice data.At last, on display device, show in the animation frame, play true man's voice data of finding out.
Embodiment:
Electronic type sign language dictionary device disclosed in this invention with and the sign language querying method, mainly be inquiry, the destination of study that the mode of utilizing animation loops to show reaches the sign language language, can be in not page turning, do not contrast, do not change under the situation of book, reach above-mentioned purpose.Its condition precedent is, treatment step must be very simple, just is unlikely the burden of increase system, and treatment step must fully meet the pattern that general numerical data is handled simultaneously, can be realized on various computer platforms easily.
Following conjunction with figs. describes content of the present invention in detail with an embodiment.Be to be that example illustrates in following examples with palmtop computer (HPC) type.Because general HPC is subject to the cause of volume, can't provide very large storage space, so if can realize method provided by the present invention on HPC, then should be applicable to easily on other various computer platforms.
Fig. 1 represents the calcspar of electronic type sign language dictionary device hardware configuration in the present embodiment, and this also is the basic framework of general HPC or computer system.As shown in the figure, comprising central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU) 10, keyboard (keyboard) 20, system control chip 30, LCD40, lcd driver 50, ROM70 and RAM80.Central processing unit 10 is execution control maincenters of whole hardware, can be according to the blas execution work.20 on keyboard is an input media, in order to the reception instruction that the user assigned or the data of input.LCD40 then is an output unit, and in order to the relevent information of display process, and it utilizes exclusive lcd driver 50 to be controlled.ROM70 and RAM80 then are memory module, are used for storing fixing or temporary transient data or formula respectively.30 roles that play the part of data switching centre of system control chip, related data and program during in order to the transmission Data Processing generally comprise cpu interface circuit (for example being connected in central processing unit 10), external device interface circuit (for example being connected in keyboard 20 and lcd driver 50) and Memory Controller (in order to the access action of control store module).ROM70 at general HPC can deposit the operating system program, after this operating system program is carried out via central processing unit 10, just can allow whole HPC move.Mandatory declaration be that structure shown in Figure 1 is general framework, has many variations in practical application.For instance, ROM70 can utilize other nonvolatile memories (non-volatile memory) to be replaced, for example flash memory (flash memory); For some HPC machine with additional card, ROM in the additional card or Flash also may comprise needed procedure code or the data carried out in addition; For example primary control program or various data bank and the index shelves of narrating after a while then need to come these data of access and program through the interface circuit (for example PCMCIA) of these additional card this moment.But, can adjust the data access mode during practical application and solve these difference, so these change and unlikely influence enforcement of the present invention.
Fig. 2 represents the calcspar of electronic type sign language dictionary device software framework in the present embodiment.In software architecture, mainly comprise primary control program 12, animation index shelves 72, animation frame data bank 74 and true man's speech information pool 76.Animation index shelves 72 are the relations with each animation frame (frame) memory location in animation frame data bank 74 of deciding sign language word remittance and its corresponding animation.74 of animation frame data bank are to be used for a plurality of animation frame of physical holding of the stock corresponding to the sign language glossary.12 of primary control programs are the main executive routines in the present embodiment, and it receives that the user sees through that keyboard 20 imported waits to look into it to be stored among the RAM80 glossary 82; And according to waiting that looking into glossary 82 looks for corresponding storage location in animation index shelves, by finding out corresponding a plurality of animation frame in the animation frame data bank 74, play in LCD40 in the mode of continuous loop play again.The hardware of carrying out primary control program 12 is central processing unit 10.76 of true man's speech information pools are the true man's voice data that is used for storing each sign language glossary, and 12 of primary control programs can be play its corresponding true man's voice data when showing animation.Therefore each above-mentioned data bank, index shelves and procedure code are suitable for being stored among the ROM70 owing to be fixed data, the cost that stores data with saving.
Below describe in detail with regard to sign language animation process mode.Fig. 3 represents the synoptic diagram of animation index shelves 72 examples in the present embodiment.As previously mentioned, animation index shelves 72 are the animation frame storage locations in animation frame data bank 74 that store all sign language glossarys.Therefore, all give an index entry for each glossary in the animation index shelves 72, as shown in the figure, each index entry comprises three fields, is respectively glossary, momentum numbering, animation frame information.The sign language glossary itself that the glossary field is incorporated into own forces in order to storage, animation numbering then write down the numbering of the animation of this glossary correspondence, and the animation frame information is then in order to store in this sign language glossary animation each animation frame at the storage location of animation frame data bank 74.As figure, glossary " A " comprises six animation frame of 00001A~00001F, and glossary " B " comprises five animation frame of 00002A~00002E, and the rest may be inferred for all the other.Actual storage location message (animation frame) stored in animation index shelves 72 can utilize a lot of modes to be realized.Suppose to be stored in regular turn according to animation numbering and animation frame order, then in the animation frame information field of each index entry, can store following two data: entity (or logic) the storage address of beginning animation frame and the animation frame number that this sign language glossary is comprised in the animation frame of animation frame data bank 74.
Fig. 4 represents the synoptic diagram of animation frame data bank 74 examples in the present embodiment.Be to store in regular turn with continuous storage location with animation frame among the figure, that is, at first store each animation frame of numbering 00001 animation, store each animation frame of numbering 00002 animation again, the rest may be inferred for all the other.The situation of Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 is merged explanation, and the message that stores in the animation frame data of glossary " A " can be the starting position of 00001A animation frame as can be known, and the message that has 6 animation frame.Yet in practical application, the data in the animation frame information field can have different forms.For instance, it much is identical that each minute mirror gesture of general sign language glossary has, and in other words, animation frame data bank 74 is will these part duplicate records.Therefore, each animation frame of this interval scale sign language word remittance animation is stored in a continuous manner, so just need entity (or logic) storage location of each animation frame of record in animation frame information field.Can also be applicable to the present invention as for other possible indexed modes, then repeat no more herein.
When primary control program 12 find wait to look into each animation frame of glossary 82 after, just the round-robin mode is play continuously.Fig. 5 represents the synoptic diagram of LCD40 demonstration example in the present embodiment.The part that shows on LCD40 in the present embodiment comprises sign language glossary tabulation form 42, sign language glossary animation form 44, input cartridge (input box) 46 and glossary gauge outfit 48.Sign language glossary tabulation form 42 is to be used for pointing out the sign language glossary, and in general operation, it is presented at each glossary of layout in regular turn in the sign language dictionary; When selecting historical inventory (history record), then can demonstrate the sign language glossary tabulation of once inquiring about, promptly be to show this historical inventory in the example of Fig. 5.General historical inventory all is considered as temporary data, therefore mostly is stored among the RAM80.44 of sign language glossary animation forms are to be used for showing the animation that finds, at the indicated glossary of Fig. 5 is " A ", so the sign language animation of playing in sign language glossary animation form 44 that is glossary " A ", glossary gauge outfit 48 then show the sign language glossary of playing at present.46 of input cartridges supply the user to import glossary to be checked, and the user can utilize the sign language content that keyboard is imported needs inquiry.Owing to shown sign language glossary tabulation and sign language glossary animation simultaneously on LCD40, so the user can be as page turning between index and content as the use books, and can the clearer action of correctly seeing sign language.
In order to strengthen results of learning, added true man's phonological component in the present embodiment in addition.Get back to Fig. 2, store true man's voice data of each glossary in true man's speech information pool 76,12 of primary control programs can be from wherein finding true man's voice data of waiting to look into glossary, and when on LCD40, showing sign language glossary animation, play true man's voice data simultaneously, to strengthen the impression of user for this glossary.Therefore, in animation index shelves 72, can store the storage location of true man's voice data in true man's speech information pool 76 of each glossary in the lump, can in retrieval animation index shelves 72, find the storage location of animation and voice data by this.
Fig. 6 represents the process flow diagram of the sign language querying method of electronic type sign language dictionary device in the present embodiment, that is the action of primary control program 12.At first, the user sees through the sign language glossary (S1) of keyboard 20 input desire inquiries, and primary control program 12 then can be treated this to look into the sign language glossary and be stored in RAM80.Then, the indexing informations of 12 of primary control programs inquiry input sign language glossarys in animation index shelves 72, that is the storage location of its animation frame in animation frame data bank 74 with and the storage location (S2) of true man's voice data in true man's speech information pool 76.Then, 12 of primary control programs are found out its animation frame and are found out its true man's voice data (S3) by true man's speech information pool 76 by animation frame data bank 74 according to indexing information, play true man's voice data again and with continuous round-robin mode playing animation frame (S4).At this moment, as long as the user does not have other action (S5), primary control program 12 can be play the sign language animation in repetitiousness ground, till next step indication of receiving the user.When the user assigns other orders, then judge its subsequent action (S6):, then get back to step S1 if the user imports other glossary to be looked into; If the user will access the glossary storage, then find out the historical inventory that is stored among the RAM80, be shown in the sign language glossary tabulation form 42 among the LCD40 (S7), and get back to step S2; If the user selects to withdraw from, then finish primary control program 12.
In step S4, the animation of present glossary, the branch mirror figure of shown sign language gesture when Fig. 7 represents to inquire about sign language glossary " A " in the present embodiment are play in primary control program 12 meeting repetitiousness ground.When playing its animation, can demonstrate its each animation frame 00001A, 00001B, 000001C, 000001D, 000001E, 000001F in regular turn.A given time at interval between each animation frame, for example 1 second.The user sees through the sign language glossary of so showing, nature can be grasped the variation of its sign language gesture at an easy rate, and then increases the effect of study.
Electronic type sign language dictionary device of the present invention with and the sign language querying method, can provide a kind of is dictionary with the sign language language, and is easy to the operator scheme of inquiring about and learning, it has the following advantages:
1. the advantage that fully represents electronization, inquiry is convenient, and is aided with the historical record function, is convenient to learn sign language.
2. utilize the continuous animation circularly exhibiting, can give the strong visual effect of people, express complicated glossary/phrase for sign language especially, can produce the results of learning stronger than general books.
3. can introduce true man's pronunciation simultaneously, accomplish the combination of sound, shape, justice, effectively guide the user correctly to learn.Though the present invention discloses as above with a preferred embodiment; right its is not in order to limit the present invention; any those who are familiar with this art; without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention; when can doing a little change and retouching, so protection scope of the present invention attached claim person of defining after looking is as the criterion.