Camera to understand Gorrei
1998/04/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria
Thanks to a new device developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we can understand the sign language used by the deaf. A small camera on the hat sees the gestures and translates them, hearing the translation from the speaker in the hat itself.
What the Institute has shown is only a prototype and can only comprehend 40 words or gestures. When asked the date of market placement, technicians have made a five-year forecast, if the necessary resources are found. The prototype
sees hands as an ellipse and from there analyzes their position, shape, orientation and measurement for later translation.
The American sign language uses a code of 6,000 words, five times less than the language itself, English. The rest of the words, therefore, should be letreadas to the camera through the fingers, in the form of elez ele. 1.
