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- the present invention relates to a color identification device for a visually impaired person.
- Patent Document 1 As a device for identifying a color, for example, as shown in Patent Document 1, there has been a dedicated device for identifying a color and outputting it as a sound. However, this device was expensive due to the dedicated device and could not be used by anyone. It is not easy to use, for example, irradiating white light and measuring its reflection.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-22537
- An object of the present invention is to provide a sound color identification device for visually impaired persons and color-blind persons, and to enable visually impaired persons and the like to easily use them in daily life. Means to solve
- the present invention provides a color identification device using a camera, comprising: a pixel acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of pixels from a partial region of an image taken by the camera; A color discriminating means for discriminating one color from the plurality of pixels obtained; a sound data converting means for converting the discriminated color into sound data; and a sound output means for outputting the sound data. It is characterized by.
- the pixel acquisition means, the color determination means, the sound data conversion means, and the sound output means operate each time the camera continuously acquires an image, the camera is turned in real time.
- the color of the direction can be identified by sound.
- a color is identified by a pitch, a chord, a length, and a size of the sound, and the hue is the pitch, the achromatic color is the chord, the brightness of the color, and the color.
- the degree may be represented by the length and loudness of the sound.
- the apparatus may further include audio data conversion means for converting the determined color into audio data, and audio output means for outputting the audio data.
- the image processing apparatus may further include display data creation means for creating the determined color as display data, and display means for displaying an image showing a frame indicating the area in the image taken by the camera and the display data.
- the present invention also includes a program for causing a camera-equipped mobile terminal to realize the functions of the above-described color identification device.
- the device is configured as a color identification device based on sound, a visually impaired person can use it in daily life.
- the colors in the camera lens direction can be identified in real time, so that the colors can be identified immediately. Also, by gradually changing the direction to scan, the color distribution can be known.
- the color can be identified by voice, the color expressed more accurately can be recognized.
- the portable terminal with a camera can be configured as a color identification device by a program, a portable device can be provided at low cost.
- color discrimination area and color data can also be displayed, accurate color information can be visually confirmed, and can be used by those engaged in the task of confirming color.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a hardware configuration of a mobile terminal 100 such as a mobile phone with a camera, a PDA, or a PC used in the embodiment of the present invention.
- the mobile terminal 100 includes a camera 110, and images taken by the camera are stored in a camera image memory 112. The entire control is performed by a program executed by the CPU 120. These The program is stored in a nonvolatile memory 124 such as a flash memory or an EEPROM. The image taken by the camera 110 is transferred to the display memory 140 under the control of the CPU 120, and can be viewed on the display device 142.
- the mobile terminal 100 has a button group (keyboard) 13
- Buttons are used to instruct the operation of the portable terminal 100, audio is generated from the audio memory 150 via the codec 152, and a sound source LSI 15 is provided.
- RAM 126 functions as the main memory of CPU 120
- FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment in which a mobile phone is used as the mobile terminal 100 and this is used as a color identification device.
- an OS (BREW) 200 for operating the mobile phone 100 as a system a RAM 126 loaded with an application program for using the mobile phone 100 as a color identification device, a voice data file, and the like are stored.
- the figure mainly shows the exchange of control information and data between the nonvolatile memory 124, the button group 130, the camera 110, the image memory 112, and the like.
- Programs can be downloaded from the Internet, stored in non-volatile memory such as flash memory, and loaded into RAM 126, the main memory, so that the mobile phone can function as a color identification device. .
- image data taken from the camera 110 is transferred to the camera image memory 112.
- the application program obtains image data from the image memory 112 via the OS 200 in the preview storage area in the RAM 126 and performs processing.
- the sound data is read from the sound data file in the non-volatile memory 124 into the sound reproduction data area of the RAM 126, and the sound data is transferred to the sound memory 150 via the OS 200, thereby outputting the sound.
- desired display is performed by transferring data in the preview storage area or the display data area from the application program to the display memory 140 via the OS 200.
- the portable terminal 100 operates as a color identification device. Professional The structure 'function of the gram will be described in detail.
- FIG. 3 shows BREW used as the OS of the mobile phone 100 in the embodiment.
- FIG. 4 shows an application structure 220 created to interface between 200 and the application program 300.
- the event handler 230 can execute a corresponding event 'routine of the application' program according to a specific event such as OS200. For example, when a menu is selected to start the application program 300 using the portable terminal 100 as a color identification device, an application start event 310 occurs, and a routine based on the application start event shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 is executed.
- a specific event such as OS200. For example, when a menu is selected to start the application program 300 using the portable terminal 100 as a color identification device, an application start event 310 occurs, and a routine based on the application start event shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 is executed.
- an application execution environment is registered (S312). This creates an application structure 220 as shown in FIG. 3, and prepares an event 'handler 230, a callback function 240, and an external variable table 260.
- BREW manages global variables in a special external variable table 260. Then, in order to notify the activation of the application program 300, a sound or display is output (S314).
- S316 This includes registering a camera control callback (notifying the application 'Program 300 that the shutter has been released), setting the camera screen size, setting the camera's shutter speed (eg, 2 frames per second), image quality parameters Settings (Iris 'Contrast' Sharpness) etc. Then, the camera control is started (S318), and an event waiting (READY) state is set (S319). The camera will now start shuttering twice a second. Every time the shutter is released, the camera 'callback' 320 is issued and the camera 'callback' routine is executed, which is registered in the callback function 240 of FIG.
- a camera control callback notifying the application 'Program 300 that the shutter has been released
- setting the camera screen size setting the camera's shutter speed (eg, 2 frames per second), image quality parameters Settings (Iris 'Contrast' Sharpness) etc.
- the camera control is started (S318), and an event waiting (READY) state is set (S319).
- READY event waiting
- the routine of the camera 'callback executed each time the shutter of the camera 110 is released is shown in the flowchart of Fig. 5.
- the camera callback routine shown in Figure 5 is the application 'program 300 main' routine. In this routine, the color of the central portion is determined from the image acquired by the camera 110, and the color is notified to the visually impaired person by sound or voice.
- bitmap data is obtained from the camera image memory 112, and the The preview screen in the program is updated (S322).
- the display data for display is created on this preview screen, then transferred to the display memory 140 storing the actual screen, and displayed on the display device 142.
- a color is determined by a color determination function (see FIG. 7A) (S330).
- FIG. 7A shows a flowchart showing the processing of the color discrimination function.
- RGB color data 4096 colors of 4 bits each in this embodiment
- S332 FIG. 7
- one color is determined from the plurality of points (pixels) (S333). For example, an average value of all the values is taken as a representative color. The same value or the closest color is the most.
- this RGB color data (in this case, 4096 colors) is converted to a combination of group A (indicating lightness and saturation) and group B (indicating hue) (in this case, 256 or less) (S334).
- FIG. 9 (a) shows 13 types of brightness and saturation of the embodiment
- FIG. 9 (b) The following shows the 20 different hue categories in the form.
- the characters in front of FIG. 8 indicate the divisions in FIG. 9 (a), and the characters in the rear correspond to the divisions in FIG. 9 (b).
- the color data converted to HSV is converted into sound data / sound file name in the reproduction file name table 266.
- Sound data is pitch, loudness and length data
- the audio file name is the audio for generating the words shown in each column of the color name (modifier) of Group A and the color name of Group B shown in Figures 9 (a) and (b). This is the name of the file that stores the data.
- the flag 1 and the flag 2 are set according to the key press event flowchart shown in FIG. 6A in the embodiment.
- This event occurs when the user presses any button after the application start event shown in Fig. 4, for example, after the start credit is displayed, the key press event shown in Fig. 6 (a) is started and the user presses the button.
- the button is determined (S362).
- flag 2 is set to TRUE (S364). If the user selects sound output and presses any other button, flag 1 is set to TRUE (S366).
- the sound output function (S340) will be described.
- An example of this function is shown in FIG. 7 (c), and uses the sound data registered in the playback file name table 266 to notify the visually identified person of the determined color by sound (S342).
- the color (group B) is represented by the pitch as shown in the table of Fig. 10 (a)
- the brightness and saturation are represented by the sound as shown in the table of Fig. 10 (b).
- the length of the sound is the shortest at one stage and the longest at four stages.
- the maximum (4 steps) is 1Z2 seconds.
- all achromatic colors are represented by domino chords as the pitch of the sound, and are expressed by distinguishing the stages from white to black according to the volume. In this way, each time the shutter is released, the color of the color determination area of the image acquired thereby is notified by sound, so that the color in the direction in which the camera is pointed can be known in real time.
- a frame indicating the color determination area is drawn on the preview screen (see Fig. 7 (b)).
- data of the determined color is created and drawn (S324).
- color data for example, with the RGB value of the determined color as the maximum value of each color as 255, the character table at the bottom of the screen along with the image taken by the camera and the frame of the color determination area Show. Since the area in which the color of the image is determined and the accurate color data can be confirmed, a person engaged in the task of confirming the color can effectively use the color identification device.
- the flag 2 is TRUE (S325)
- the visually impaired person is notified of the determined color by voice.
- the registration of the camera callback is deleted so that the camera's shutter is not cut off before the end of the voice notification period (S326).
- the audio data is reproduced by the color name output function (S350).
- An example of the processing of the color name output function is shown in the flowchart of FIG. 7 (d).
- FIG. 7 (d) first, if it remains in the voice resource S memory, it is released (S352). Then, the currently registered group A audio reproduction file is loaded into the memory and reproduced (S354).
- a sound reproduction callback 390 is registered in the callback function 240 in order to reproduce the B group reproduction file.
- the sound reproduction callback 390 is called.
- the processing of the audio playback callback is shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6 (d).
- a condition determination is made as to whether or not this voice playback callback has been called for the first time with flag 3 (initial value: FALSE) (S392).
- flag 3 initial value: FALSE
- TRUE is assigned to the flag (S395), and if it remains in the voice resource memory, it is released (S396).
- the currently registered group B audio playback file is loaded into the memory and played (S397).
- the audio playback callback is registered in the callback function 240 in order to call the audio playback callback 390 again (S398).
- the audio playback callback 390 When the audio playback callback 390 is called for the second time after the audio output of the group B is completed, it is determined that the second time has been reached by setting the flag 3 to TRUE (S392). When one of them operates, the camera callback 320 is registered to activate the camera 110 (S393), and FALSE is substituted for the flag 3 (S394). Then, the state becomes an event waiting state (REA DY: S399). Since FALSE is assigned to flag 3, the user presses the button again to select sound output or audio output in order to output sound or audio after color audio output is completed.
- the preview screen is transferred to the display memory 140 to update the actual screen on the preview screen (FIG. 5: S328).
- the display screen is normally updated twice every second when the shutter is released, and the color data and the like are displayed. The screen is displayed until the sound reproduction ends.
- the application interruption event 370 and the application resumption event 380 shown in FIGS. 6 (b) and 6 (c) are issued by the BREW OS used in the embodiment to suspend and resume the execution of the application itself. It is an event.
- a mobile phone receives a call S while operating an application
- an application interruption event is sent from the OS, and as shown in Fig. 6 (b), resources are released (S372) and the event is released. It becomes a waiting state (READY: S374).
- an application restart event is sent to the OS, and processing of the application restart event (Fig. 6 (c)) is executed.
- it jumps to the camera initialization (S382), goes to the camera initialization (S316) of the processing flow of the application start event shown in FIG. 4, and starts the camera control (S318). It becomes a waiting state (READY: S319).
- This is a mechanism in which the operating system of a mobile phone is provided in order to realize that the function of the phone has priority over anything, since the mobile phone is a phone.
- the specific OS (BREW)
- the shutter is released every 1Z2 seconds, and the audio or sound is output by performing the RGBZHSV conversion as shown in Figs.
- the OS is different, the execution is not controlled by the application structure shown in FIG. 3, and the program is executed under the control of the OS.
- sounds or sounds may be output with different shutter intervals or other conversion tables or combinations.
- a visually impaired person or a color blind person can use a mobile terminal with a camera as a color identification device. Then, the color of the specific area of the image obtained by the camera can be recognized in real time by the sound.
- the color is converted into various sounds in real time and output, musical applications are also conceivable.
- the color of the area where the image acquired by the camera exists can be known by voice.
- the color of the desired portion can be accurately identified, so that the person engaged in the task of confirming the color can effectively utilize the color identification device.
- the color can be identified.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of hardware of a mobile terminal with a camera.
- FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an application structure for interfacing an OS with an application.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing of an application activation event.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a process called from a camera callback.
- FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing (a) a key press process, (b) an application interruption event, (c) an application restart event, and (d) a process called from a voice playback callback.
- FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing (a) processing of a color determination function and (c) processing of a sound output function, and (b) a view showing a preview screen.
- FIG. 8 is a view showing an RGBZHVS conversion table.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the meaning of the numbers in FIG. 8 and a table of conversion between colors and sounds.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a table of color and sound conversion.
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