Wisepad Services For Vision-, Hearing-, And Speech-impaired Users

摘要

Our vision foe the wisePad system, named for the iconic three wise monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, is a full-service computing platform designed to deliver personalized image-, audio-, and text-transformation services to people with impaired vision, speech captioning for people with hearing problems, and language-translation, text-summarization, and pictographic-illustration services for people needing help with both spoken and text-based language. wisePad services employ a generic head-mounted display content-transformation device of the type described by Kanevsky and Sorenson. The device captures image(s) on an output device (such as iPod screen, PC monitor, and projection screen) and receives multimedia signals input from other channels. Related wisePad services then use the service's content-transformer functions to translate captured or received images and display them on the screen of the device. wisePad transforms an image in several ways: For the vision-impaired user, it magnifies parts of the original image to facilitate visual perception and thus comprehension. For the hearing-impaired, it displays closed-captioned video, pictures, and text in the lenses of the user's eyeglasses. And for speech aid, it might transform text into simplified text in the same language, speech into another language, speech into summary form, and/or speech by adding pictographic icons intended to help in language understanding in the same way pictures and icons help young children learn to read.