Sign to letter translator system using a hand glove

Author

El Hayek, Hanine ; Nacouzi, Jessica ; Kassem, Abdallah ; Hamad, Moez ; El-Murr, Sami

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Comput. & Commun. Eng., Notre Dame Univ. - Louaize, Zouk Mikayel, Lebanon

fYear

2014

fDate

April 29 2014-May 1 2014

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

150

Abstract

A sign to letter translator system using a hand glove is proposed in this paper. The glove can be used by any deaf and/or mute person to communicate with people that do not understand sign language. The performed signs, with the hand wearing the glove, are displayed as alphabetic letters on the LCD. This glove can be very useful, efficient, and helpful for solving the communication issues that arise between the people suffering from hard of hearing and the people that do not. It consists of flex resistors that sense the change in gestures, a microcontroller that gathers, processes, and sends data to the LCD which shows the respective resulting letter. The Sign to Letter Translator is designed to facilitate the communication between the transmitter and the receiver so that the meaning of the message is properly reached and completely understood.

Keywords

data gloves; microcontrollers; sign language recognition; flex resistors; hand glove; letter translator system; microcontroller; Assistive technology; Flexible printed circuits; Gesture recognition; Hardware; Sensors; Thumb; Communication; Electronic Hand Glove; Flex resistors; LCD; Microcontroller; Sign to Letter Translator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Technologies and Networks for Development (ICeND), 2014 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beirut

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3165-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICeND.2014.6991369

Filename

6991369