JP2820119B2 - Television with visual display function - Google Patents

Television with visual display function

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JP2820119B2
JP2820119B2 JP8138475A JP13847596A JP2820119B2 JP 2820119 B2 JP2820119 B2 JP 2820119B2 JP 8138475 A JP8138475 A JP 8138475A JP 13847596 A JP13847596 A JP 13847596A JP 2820119 B2 JP2820119 B2 JP 2820119B2
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邦雄 野口
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NEC Corp
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【発明の詳細な説明】DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

【0001】[0001]

【発明の属する技術分野】本発明はテレビジョンに関
し、特に聴覚障害者にも観賞できる可視表示機能付テレ
ビジョンに関する。
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a television, and more particularly, to a television with a visual display function that can be watched by hearing-impaired persons.

【0002】[0002]

【従来の技術】一般に、従来のテレビジョン放送やビデ
オでは、文字放送等での文字だけによる情報伝達もある
が、通常は、映像と音声による情報伝達が基本である。
また、映像と音声に加えて文字も入った放送やビデオも
あるが、この場合前もって編集時に文字情報を加えたも
のであり、この作業は大変である。このため、文字情報
が入った放送は、ほとんど無いのが現状であり、生放送
時にいたっては、皆無である。
2. Description of the Related Art In general, in conventional television broadcasting and video, information transmission by text only or the like in text broadcasting or the like is also used, but usually, information transmission by video and audio is fundamental.
There are also broadcasts and videos that include text in addition to video and audio. In this case, text information is added in advance at the time of editing, and this operation is difficult. For this reason, at present, there is almost no broadcast containing text information, and there is no broadcast during live broadcast.

【0003】また、音声をただ文字情報に変換し、表示
するものとしては、たとえば特開平3−6163号公報
に示されるような電話機があるが、これは双方向伝達
で、ほとんどが一対一での情報伝達手段であり、電話回
線からの相手(ほとんどが一人)の音声を闇雲に文字表
示するだけで、相手の情報を理解する事ができる。万が
一、理解できない時は問い直せば良い。
There is a telephone as disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 3-6163, for example, which converts voice into text information and displays it. This is a two-way transmission, and is mostly one-to-one. It is an information transmission means, and it is possible to understand the information of the other party simply by displaying the voice of the other party (mostly one person) from the telephone line in black and white characters. If you don't understand, just ask again.

【0004】[0004]

【発明が解決しようとする課題】従って、従来のテレビ
ジョンでは、ビデオやテレビジョン放送、特に生放送を
聴覚障害者が楽しむことができないという欠点がある。
Therefore, the conventional television has a drawback that a hearing impaired person cannot enjoy video and television broadcasting, especially live broadcasting.

【0005】また、特開平3−6163号公報にある技
術では一方向伝達であり、複数人の音声情報が飛び交う
テレビジョン放送において、ただ闇雲に文字表示するだ
けでは、聴覚障害者が理解するには、不十分であるとい
う欠点がある。
Further, in the technology disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-6163, one-way transmission is used. In television broadcasting in which voice information of a plurality of people flies, it is difficult for a hearing-impaired person to understand only by displaying characters in dark clouds. Have the disadvantage of being inadequate.

【0006】本発明の目的は、上述した従来の欠点を解
決し、複数人の音声を分別して文字表示する事で、聴覚
障害者でもテレビジョン放送、特に生放送を観賞できる
可視表示機能付テレビジョンを提供することである。
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and to provide a television display with a visual display function that enables a hearing impaired person to watch television broadcasts, particularly live broadcasts, by separating the voices of a plurality of persons and displaying the characters. It is to provide.

【0007】[0007]

【課題を解決するための手段】本発明の可視表示付テレ
ビジョンは、入力音声を認識する音声認識手段と、誰の
音声かを分別する個人音声識別手段と、この音声認識手
段で認識した音声を個人別音声として区別できるように
文字情報に変換する音声/文字変換手段とを有してい
る。
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A television with a visible display according to the present invention comprises a voice recognition means for recognizing an input voice, a personal voice identification means for distinguishing who the voice is, and a voice recognized by the voice recognition means. And voice / character conversion means for converting the character information into character information so as to be distinguishable as individual voice.

【0008】[0008]

【発明の実施の形態】次に、本発明について図面を参照
して、説明する。図1は、本発明の一実施の形態を示す
ブロック図、図2は、本発明のディスプレイ表示例を示
す。
Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a display display example of the present invention.

【0009】図1において、音声認識/個人音声識別部
1、及び音声/文字変換部2、以外は従来のテレビジョ
ンのブロック図と同じである。図で、アンテナ11で受
信された放送信号は、チューナー12を通して、SIF
/VIF部13で映像信号と音声信号が検波されて、検
波後の映像信号と音声信号は、ビデオ・ターミナル部1
4へ出力される。
FIG. 1 is the same as a conventional television block diagram except for a voice recognition / personal voice discrimination unit 1 and a voice / character conversion unit 2. In the figure, a broadcast signal received by an antenna 11 is transmitted through a tuner 12 to an SIF.
The video signal and the audio signal are detected by the / VIF unit 13, and the detected video signal and audio signal are output to the video terminal unit 1.
4 is output.

【0010】映像信号は、ビデオ・ターミナル部14
で、Y(輝度)信号・C(クロマ)信号に分離されて、
映像信号処理部21、及び同期回路部22に出力され
る。映像信号は、映像信号処理部21で各種映像処理さ
れて、合成部23で、音声/文字変換部2からの文字情
報信号と合成され、映像出力部24を通してCRT27
へ出力される。Y信号から同期分離された同期信号は、
垂直出力部25、及び水平出力部26を通してCRT2
7へ出力されるとともに音声/文字変換部2に出力され
る。
The video signal is supplied to a video terminal unit 14.
Is separated into a Y (luminance) signal and a C (chroma) signal.
The video signal is output to the video signal processing unit 21 and the synchronization circuit unit 22. The video signal is subjected to various types of video processing in a video signal processing unit 21, combined with a character information signal from the audio / character conversion unit 2 in a combining unit 23, and passed through a CRT 27 through a video output unit 24.
Output to The synchronization signal separated from the Y signal is
CRT 2 through vertical output unit 25 and horizontal output unit 26
7 and output to the voice / character converter 2.

【0011】ビデオターミナル部14で音声復調された
音声信号は、音声認識/個人音声識別部1で音声認識さ
れるとともに音声の特徴に基づき、個人音声も同時に識
別されて、音声/文字変換部2に出力される。
The voice signal demodulated by the video terminal unit 14 is voice-recognized by the voice recognition / personal voice identification unit 1 and personal voice is also simultaneously identified based on the characteristics of the voice. Is output to

【0012】音声/文字変換部2では、音声を文字変換
するとともに個人音声識別信号により文字変換された情
報を可視分別できるように処理する。たとえば、違う人
が喋った言葉の文字を、図2の(a),(b)に示すよ
うに鍵括弧を付けたり、色を変えたりして可視表示した
りすることで可視分別できるようにする。更に、同期信
号によって、映像と文字情報との同期をとり、この同期
された文字情報を合成部23に出力して、そこで映像と
文字表示が合成される。
The voice / character conversion unit 2 converts the voice into characters and processes the information converted into characters by the personal voice identification signal so that the information can be visually distinguished. For example, the characters of words spoken by different people can be visually distinguished by attaching brackets or changing the color as shown in FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b). I do. Further, the video and the character information are synchronized by the synchronization signal, and the synchronized character information is output to the synthesizing unit 23, where the video and the character display are synthesized.

【0013】一方、ビデオ・ターミナル部14で音声復
調された音声信号は、音声出力部15を通してスピーカ
16に送られて、音声が出力される。また、ビデオ入力
端子31よりビデオターミナル部14に入力されたビデ
オ情報も同様に可視表示される。
On the other hand, the audio signal demodulated by the video terminal unit 14 is sent to a speaker 16 through an audio output unit 15 to output audio. Similarly, video information input from the video input terminal 31 to the video terminal unit 14 is also visually displayed.

【0014】文字表示させるか否かは、切換スイッチ3
2により切り替えることができる。つまり、本実施例の
テレビジョンは、テレビ放送やビデオ情報の音声信号か
ら音声認識及び個人音声識別し、それを個人音声毎に文
字変換し、その文字情報をそれに合った映像上に可視表
示する事ができる機能を有している。さらに、それらの
機能とともに通常のテレビジョンとしての機能も有して
おり、それらが切換スイッチの切換操作によって、選択
される。
A changeover switch 3 determines whether or not to display characters.
2 can be switched. In other words, the television of the present embodiment performs voice recognition and personal voice identification from a voice signal of a television broadcast or video information, performs character conversion for each personal voice, and visually displays the character information on a video suitable for the personal voice. Has the ability to do things. In addition to these functions, it also has a function as a normal television, and these are selected by a changeover operation of a changeover switch.

【0015】[0015]

【発明の効果】以上説明したように本発明は、テレビジ
ョン放送受像時やビデオ再生時等において、音声情報を
音声認識するとともにその音声情報から個人音声の識別
を行うことにより、その音声をディスプレイ上に文字表
示し、その文字表示を個人別に別個に分別表示する事に
よって、聴覚障害者にも、テレビジョン放送、ビデオ再
生等を観賞することができるという効果がある。
As described above, according to the present invention, at the time of receiving a television broadcast or reproducing a video, the voice information is recognized and the personal voice is identified from the voice information, thereby displaying the voice. By displaying the characters on the top and displaying the characters separately and individually, there is an effect that a hearing impaired person can also watch television broadcasting, video reproduction, and the like.

【0016】また、周囲の騒音が大きくて、音声が聞き
取れない場合にも、文字表示を読みとることで、テレビ
ジョン放送、ビデオ再生等を観賞する事ができるという
効果がある。また、テレビジョン放送による情報の代わ
りに、ビデオ再生等のように、映像と音声の混じった情
報であっても、いうまでもなく効果は全く同じである。
In addition, even when the surrounding noise is loud and the voice cannot be heard, reading the character display has the effect of enabling the user to watch television broadcasts, video reproduction, and the like. In addition, even if the information is a mixture of video and audio, such as video playback, instead of the information by television broadcasting, the effect is, of course, the same.

【図面の簡単な説明】[Brief description of the drawings]

【図1】本発明の実施の形態を示すブロック図。FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention.

【図2】本発明のディスプレイ表示例(a),(b)を
示す。
FIG. 2 shows display display examples (a) and (b) of the present invention.

【符号の説明】[Explanation of symbols]

1 音声認識/個人音声識別部 2 音声/文字変換部 11 受信アンテナ 12 チューナー 13 SIF/VIF部 14 ビデオ・ターミナル部 15 音声出力部 16 スピーカ 21 映像信号処理部 22 同期回路部 23 合成部 24 映像出力部 25 垂直出力部 26 水平出力部 27 CRT 31 ビデオ入力端子 32 切替スイッチ Reference Signs List 1 voice recognition / personal voice identification unit 2 voice / character conversion unit 11 reception antenna 12 tuner 13 SIF / VIF unit 14 video terminal unit 15 audio output unit 16 speaker 21 video signal processing unit 22 synchronization circuit unit 23 synthesis unit 24 video output Unit 25 vertical output unit 26 horizontal output unit 27 CRT 31 video input terminal 32 selector switch

Claims (3)

(57)【特許請求の範囲】(57) [Claims] 【請求項1】 音声認識手段で入力音声を認識し、この
認識した音声を音声/文字変換手段で文字情報に変換す
るとともに個人音声識別手段で個人別に分別し、その文
字情報を可視分別できるようにしたことを特徴とした可
視表示機能付テレビジョン。
An input voice is recognized by a voice recognition unit, the recognized voice is converted into character information by a voice / character conversion unit, and is separated by an individual voice identification unit into individuals, so that the character information can be visually separated. A television with a visual display function, characterized in that:
【請求項2】 文字情報を表示する場合、個人別に表示
の色を変えたことを特徴とした請求項1の可視表示機能
付テレビジョン。
2. The television with a visible display function according to claim 1, wherein the display color is changed for each individual when displaying the character information.
【請求項3】 文字情報を表示する場合、個人別に鍵括
弧を付けて表示したことを特徴とする請求項1の可視表
示機能付テレビジョン。
3. The television with a visible display function according to claim 1, wherein when displaying the character information, a bracket is attached to each individual.
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