DE202012010610U1 - Device for voice and remote communication for the deaf by impulse language - Google Patents

Abstract

Glove-shaped transmitter and receiver keyboard, characterized in that on the outside carries the keys of a keyboard, which are actuated from here, and in the inner side electrodes which receive pulses and forward to the skin, have been attached. ()

Description

This is the design of a device or combination of devices for the deaf, so they can fully learn the vocal language and communicate in that language, both among themselves and with listeners and speakers. In addition, they can, after learning the spoken language by this special type (impulse language), both among themselves and with listeners and speakers without prior difficulties phone calls and wireless calls, namely to communicate with mobile phone.

Structure and operation of the device and the procurement of the associated language (impulse language) are as follows:

Gloved transmitter and receiver keyboard

The keys of a normal cordless keyboard are distributed in a finer form, with small pressure sensors, to the eight fingers of two gloves made of electrically non-conductive material. The thumbs remain free. With the thumbs, the keys are pressed so that corresponding letters are sent to a computer or to another receiver.

Fig. 1

In the inner side of this glove, which is in contact with the skin of the hand, small electrodes are attached. These electrodes are assigned to the letters that were placed on the inner side of the gloves and perform the function of a receiver. For example, the receiver for letter A is just below the transmitter for letter A. When pressed, the electrodes emit a faint, harmless but probably noticeable surge.

Computer typed words are transmitted to the recipient of the glove. The glove bearer (the deaf person) receives for each word a pulse corresponding to the constellation of the letters in this word on his hands. The receiving function of the glove must be programmed so that it does not follow the individual letters in typed time series, but only transmits the word as a compact character to the hand. This can be achieved by the recipient first saving the typed letters and releasing them as a compact character by pressing the spacebar. In this way, a new language is developed for the deaf, which consists not of acoustic signals but of pulse signals but exactly corresponds to the acoustic language

Fig. 2

It is not difficult to teach such a language to the deaf. There is also the possibility that the deaf himself types to computers and identifies the corresponding impulses with the visual appearance of the word. As is well known, the deaf can learn to read and write. In this way, the deaf gets an impression of every word he experiences in his body. That's what I call "impulse ear," a third ear. The conversion of the typed words by computer in acoustic-linguistic sounds and conversion of the words spoken in written form is indeed possible with today's technology. There are already online dictionaries that both translate the word you are looking for into the target language and pronounce it. This provides the opportunity for deaf people to communicate with listeners and speakers by typing and receiving the language of impulses, and the listeners can easily communicate with deaf people as if they were not deaf.

Fig. 3

The result is a new, so far not given communication channel between the deaf and hearing in language course.

Remote communication between the deaf.

With today's technology, it is quite conceivable that a mobile phone does not turn the received signals into acoustic ones, but in letters that it forwards directly to the recipient's gloves. The reverse direction is also conceivable. Every simplest mobile phone has the ability to send and receive text messages. It only needs to receive the SMS letter from transmitter glove, rather than its own keyboard, and redirect it to another mobile phone.

Facilitating the learning and specification of the spoken language of the deaf.

The fact that the deaf learn the phonetic language is well known. However, the pronunciation of the words is blurred, imprecise, and mostly incomprehensible to the hearing or unaccompanied by sign language. In addition, learning the spoken language for the deaf is a tedious and difficult task.

With the use of the receiver keyboard, the learning of the spoken language for the deaf can be facilitated several times and its pronunciation improved and even adapted to the hearing. For this, the keyboard does not need to be a transmitter keyboard. The above-described receiving words is sufficient. For this application, the keyboard also does not need to be glove-shaped, but in matrix and in any shape. It can be in the form of a bracelet, as in the device for blood pressure measurement.

Fig. 4

To learn and improve pronunciation, the apprentice (deaf) needs two armband-shaped receivers, each attached to an upper arm. He gets on a receiver, z. On the right side, the right expression of a word that is directly translated into signal language by the teacher or computer and transmitted to the apprentice. The receiver on the left is shot by computer to a microphone and gives the apprentice his own pronunciation of the same word in signal language again. This gives the apprentice a right and permanent feeling for the correct pronunciation of the word and, in contrast, a sense of his own pronunciation. This procedure makes it easier for him to adapt his own pronunciation to the correct and consistent pronunciation.

Remote communication with listeners

The last stage of this process is the possibility of remote communication between the deaf and the hearing. After the deaf has improved his pronunciation to such an extent that the hearing is understood without the help of sign language. Can the hearing and the deaf communicate without any difficulty wirelessly and remotely.

Claims (4)

Glove-shaped transmitter and receiver keypad, characterized in that on the outside carries the keys of a keyboard, which are actuated from here, and in the inner side electrodes which receive pulses and forward to the hand skin, have been attached. ( ) The combination of gloves and computer, characterized in that a mutual communication between gloves and computer comes about. ( ) The combination of the gloves and a mobile phone, characterized in that the acoustic signals are converted into letters or in pulses and the pulses in acoustic signals. The term "impulse language", characterized in that the spoken language is transformed into impulses and is made accessible to the deaf in this way.

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