Sign Language Conversion AI Model for Non-Verbal Cue Accuracy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for converting sign language into text, audio, or video in another language often fail to accurately convey communication cues like body language and facial expressions, leading to miscommunication and misunderstandings, especially for pre-lingual deaf individuals who prefer sign language over captioning.

Innovation Solution

An AI model is trained to interpret and convert sign language data, including body language and facial expressions, into corresponding text, audio, or video data, generating instructions for displaying sign language performance on a user interface, allowing for more accurate communication by incorporating these cues.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If sign language is converted to text or audio without incorporating body language and facial expressions, then the conversion process is simpler and faster, but the accuracy of communication is reduced leading to miscommunication

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication accuracyVSAvoidconversion system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the sign language conversion process into multiple components: hand gesture recognition, body language detection, facial expression analysis, and integration modules. Each component processes specific non-verbal cues separately before combining them into a comprehensive translation, thereby improving communication accuracy while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular architecture

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges multiple data streams including hand gestures, body posture, facial expressions, and contextual information into a unified translation output. By combining these diverse non-verbal cues through an integration module, the system achieves more accurate communication translation that captures the full meaning of sign language performance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Loss of information

If only hand gestures are translated without body language and facial expressions, then the translation process is faster, but important communication cues are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication cuesVSAvoidtranslation speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements continuous monitoring and processing of multiple non-verbal cues simultaneously rather than sequentially. The system continuously captures hand gestures, body language, and facial expressions in real-time, maintaining an ongoing translation process that preserves all communication cues without significant delay, thereby reducing information loss while maintaining translation productivity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Measurement precision

If detailed analysis of body language and facial expressions is performed, then communication accuracy improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesign language translation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary analysis and pre-processing of non-verbal cues by continuously capturing and pre-analyzing body language and facial expressions in the background before full translation is needed. This preliminary action prepares the data in advance, allowing the system to quickly retrieve and integrate pre-processed information during actual translation, thereby maintaining high accuracy while reducing processing time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical processing methods with AI-based neural networks and machine learning models that can rapidly analyze complex non-verbal cues. These intelligent systems process body language and facial expressions more efficiently than conventional algorithms, achieving high translation accuracy with reduced processing time through parallel computation and pattern recognition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11817126B2Converting sign language
Publication Date: 2023.11.14 MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC
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AI summary

Methods and devices related to converting sign language are described. In an example, a method can include receiving, at a processing resource of a computing device via a radio of the computing device, first signaling including at least one of text data, audio data, or video data, or any combination thereof, converting, at the processing resource, at least one of the text data, the audio data, or the video data to data representing a sign language, generating, at the processing resource, different video data based at least in part on the data representing the sign language, wherein the different video data comprises instructions for display of a performance of the sign language, transmitting second signaling representing the different video data from the processing resource to a user interface, and displaying the performance of the sign language on the user interface in response to the user interface receiving the second signaling.