Title :
A GUI support system for a sight handicapped person by using hand shape recognition
Author :
Niidome, Takuro ; Ishii, Rokuya
Author_Institution :
Div. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Japan
Abstract :
The paper proposes an algorithm of hand-shape recognition and applies it to a graphical user interface (GUI) support system for a sight handicapped person. This algorithm is to recognize the angle of a hand and ten hand-shapes. As one application of this algorithm, we implement a system in which the angle of a hand controls a reading point in text on a screen in real time, and the text is read out with sound synthesis software. Further, in this system, more complicated directions to control a text reader can be done by recognized hand-shapes
Keywords :
gesture recognition; graphical user interfaces; handicapped aids; real-time systems; speech synthesis; text analysis; GUI support system; graphical user interface support system; hand shape recognition; real time; sight handicapped person; sound synthesis software; text reader control; text reading point; Application software; Computer displays; Computer interfaces; Control systems; Graphical user interfaces; Real time systems; Shape; Skin; Software algorithms; Text recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 2001. IECON '01. The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7108-9
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2001.976540
