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US 2020/0152168 A1Published application
Document Mode Processing For Portable Reading Machine Enabling Document Navigation
AssigneeKnfb Reader, LLC
InventorsRaymond C. Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, Lucy Gibson
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Abstract
Controlling a reading machine while reading a document to a user by receiving an image of a document, accessing a knowledge base that provides data that identifies sections in the document and processing user commands to select a section of the document. The reading machine applies text-to-speech to a text file that corresponds to the selected section of the document, to read the selected section of the document aloud to the user.
Claims15
1-20. (canceled)
A method of operating a portable device, comprising:
- receiving by a processor data corresponding to a user-selection of a gesturing mode;
- said processor activating a gesturing mode configuration based on said user-selection of a gesturing mode;
- receiving by a processor in the portable device data that corresponds to an image captured by a camera mounted on a set of eyeglasses, the camera in communication with the portable device;
- processing by the processor the image to recognize a user-initiated gesture in a scene captured in the image;
- determining by the processor based on the recognized user-initiated gesture a function to perform by the portable device;
- performing the determined function by the portable device according to the recognized user-initiated gesture processing by the processor the image to determine that a pointer for providing the gesture was not detected;
- and
- generating by the processor a notification to the user that the pointer was not detected by the portable device,
- wherein the camera mounted on the eyeglasses is a low resolution camera for gesture processing and the portable device comprises a separate camera that captures high-resolution images for text recognition processing.
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A portable device comprising:
- a processor;
- memory in communication with the processor, the processor configured to:
- receive data that corresponds to an image captured by an camera mounted on a set of eyeglasses, the camera being in communication with the portable device;
- process the image to recognize a user-initiated gesture in a scene captured in the image;
- determine based on the recognized user-initiated gesture a function to perform by the portable device;
- and
- perform the determined function by the portable device according to the recognized user-initiated gesture;
- wherein the processor is further configured to
- receive a user-selection of a gesturing mode to configure the processor for gesture processing,
- determine that a pointer for providing the gesture was not detected, and provide a notification to the user that the pointer was not detected by the portable device,
- wherein the camera mounted on the eyeglasses is a low resolution camera for gesture processing and the portable device comprises a separate camera that captures high-resolution images for text recognition processing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.