Touch language
OwnerRaanan Liebermanninventor
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Abstract
A touch language to be used by handicapped persons, such as deaf people, blind people, and deafblind people, is provided by the present invention. A method for communicating visual images, such as those of a television program, to a handicapped person comprises the steps of providing at least one device for physically transmitting information about the visual images to the handicapped person and delivering a key word describing a portion of the visual images to the handicapped person using the at least one device.
Claims69
A method for communicating visual images to a handicapped person, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing at least one device for physically transmitting information to said handicapped person;
- providing information about said visual images to said handicapped person using said at least one device;
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- said information providing step comprising delivering a physical signal representative of a key word describing a portion of a visual image to a first part of a body of said handicapped person using said at least one device and further comprising transmitting at least one physical input describing a dynamic element associated with said key word to a second part of the body of said handicapped person;
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- wherein Dividing the fingers of a hand of said handicapped person into a first group consisting of a pointer finger and a middle finger and into a second group consisting of a ring finger and a pinky and said transmitting step comprises transmitting information about a bad character to one of said fingers of said first group and transmitting information about a good character to one of said fingers of said second group.
A system for communicating visual images to a handicapped person, said system comprising:
- at least one device for physically transmitting information about said visual images to said handicapped person;
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- said at least one device including means for delivering a physical signal representative of a key word associated with said visual images to a first part of a body of said handicapped person, wherein said at least one device further comprises means for delivering at least one physical input describing a dynamic element associated with said key word to a palm of said handicapped person;
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- wherein Dividing the fingers of a hand of said handicapped person into a first group consisting of a pointer finger and a middle finger and into a second group consisting of a ring finger and a pinky and said transmitting step comprises transmitting information about a bad character to one of said fingers of said first group and transmitting information about a good character to one of said fingers of said second group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.