Differential planes for video I/O in a hearing impaired application
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsJohn David Lynch, Eric Eugene Miller, Charles Daniel Todd, Monika Kishor Panpaliya
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Abstract
A mobile communications device, method, and medium are provided for enhanced video communications for hearing-impaired users. A hearing-impaired call mode can be selected by a user, causing the device to establish a hearing-impaired call mode configuration. Establishing a hearing-impaired call mode configuration can include disabling a microphone and speakers and enabling an adjustable camera. The adjustable camera can tilt, pan, change focus, and the like to maintain a region of interest within a viewing angle of the camera.
Claims7
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of establishing a call mode configuration on a mobile communications device the method comprising:
- implementing a display, a call mode selector, an adjustable video camera, a microphone, and a speaker on the mobile communications device, wherein the adjustable video camera includes a pivotal lens that allows a capture of images of a user;
- providing a first call mode configuration corresponding to a first call mode, wherein the microphone and the speaker are enabled;
- receiving a user selection of a second call mode, wherein the second call mode comprises a hearing-impaired (HI) call mode;
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- establishing a second call mode configuration corresponding to the second call mode, wherein establishing the second call mode configuration comprises disabling the speaker, disabling the microphone, and enabling the adjustable camera, and wherein the second call mode configuration comprises an HI call mode configuration.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of establishing a hearing-impaired (HI) call mode configuration on a mobile communications device, the method comprising:
- implementing a display, a call mode selector, an adjustable video camera, a microphone, and a speaker on the mobile communications device, wherein the adjustable video camera includes a pivotal lens that allows a capture of images of a user;
- receiving a user selection of a hearing-impaired (HI) call mode;
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- establishing an HI call mode configuration, wherein establishing an HI call mode configuration comprises:
- disabling the microphone and the speaker;
- enabling the adjustable video camera;
- determining a region of interest, wherein the region of interest comprises the user's head and hands;
- adjusting a viewing direction of the adjustable video camera such that the region of interest is maintained within an angle of view of the adjustable camera;
- adjusting a focal length of the adjustable video camera such that the region of interest comprises a substantial portion of a screen area associated with a video frame captured by the adjustable video camera;
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- adjusting at least one of a contrast setting and a brightness setting such that movement of the user's hands is captured with maximal contrast with respect to other aspects of a series of video frames captured by the adjustable video camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.