US 11,900,729 B2
Eyewear including sign language to speech translation
Ryan Chan, Los Angeles, CA (US); Brent Mills, Vashon, WA (US); Eitan Pilipski, Los Angeles, CA (US); Jennica Pounds, Draper, UT (US); and Elliot Solomon, Shoreline, WA (US)
Assigned to SNAP INC., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/530,175.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/126,273, filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0188539 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); G06V 10/94 (2022.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01)
CPC G06V 40/28 (2022.01) [G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06N 3/02 (2013.01); G06V 10/95 (2022.01); G10L 13/027 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Eyewear, comprising:
a frame configured to be worn on a head of a user;
a speaker supported by the frame;
a camera supported by the frame and configured to generate an image including a hand gesture of a user of the eyewear; and
an electronic processor configured to:
receive the image including the hand gesture from the camera;
identify the hand gesture as a sign language; and
generate speech via the speaker that is indicative of the identified hand gesture of the user, wherein the speech is configured to be heard and understood by a person to enable a conversation between the user and the person.