KR101958649B1 - Character information transmission system using color recognition - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a color recognition character information transmission system for outputting a desired character or number according to a plurality of colors using a wearable device in the form of a globe provided corresponding to each finger of a user, A display member provided with a plurality of colors corresponding to characters or numbers of the display members, a determination unit mounted on the glove, for capturing a plurality of colors provided on the display member and recognizing letters or numbers corresponding to the captured colors, And outputting means for outputting a character or a number determined by the judging means by wire / wireless communication with the judging means. By recognizing and outputting a character or a number corresponding to the photographed color, The output can be realized with high precision.

Description

Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to a color information transmission system,

The present invention relates to a color recognition character information transmission system, and more particularly, to a color recognition character information transmission system using a wearable device in the form of a globe provided corresponding to each finger of a user, And an information transmission system.

[0003] As electronic, computer, and communication technologies have evolved, various user input means have been used for various electronic devices and computers.

Among these user input means, keyboard, mouse, electronic pen, stylus and the like are widely known. Such a user input means can actively generate an electric signal directly to allow user input to be accurately performed. However, such a user input means should be provided artificially in addition to or in addition to the device to be subjected to user input.

On the other hand, a gesture recognition-based technique for determining a user's input based on the position or shape of a hand produced by a user or the shape of a body recognized by an imaging means such as a camera is also being developed.

In recent years, wearable devices have been rapidly developed as a next generation technology that replaces smart phones.

These wearable devices were first researched at the MIT and Carnegie Mellon universities in the 1960s, but after the activation of the smartphones since 2010, they have started to achieve technological innovations that rapidly become reality. Especially after 2010, rather than using the wearable devices that have been pursued in existing research and development, rather than using connected devices as a way to exchange information gathered from wearable devices in real time and exchange them with electronic devices such as smart phones ).

One example of such a technique is disclosed in Patent Documents 1 to 3 below.

For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a wearable device in the form of a glove that can be worn on a wearer's body. The wearable device includes a motion sensor for recognizing motion of the wearable device, a bending sensor for detecting bending of the wearable device, A storage unit for storing a control code corresponding to a user's motion, a motion sensor for detecting motion of a wearer wearing the wearable device based on a sensed value of the motion sensor, the bending sensor, And generating a control signal using a control code corresponding to the determined motion; and a controller for transmitting the control signal to the user terminal device and receiving data to be transmitted in response to the control signal from the user terminal device A communication unit forms a braille pattern according to the received data An actuator is described for the wearable device comprising: a.

1, a glove-like body 11 having five fingers is provided with an end point 13 of the thumb for contact with the input point, the remaining four fingers, A plurality of input points 14, 15, 16 and 17 and an LED indicator 18 are formed at the front and rear nodes of the lower finger, the lower finger, and the younger finger, and between these input points and the digital circuit part 12, (19), which is located at the tip of the glove and is connected to a conductive pad (Pad) to which a current can be supplied, a glove finger, a finger finger, a finger, and a small finger, And a plurality of conductive pads connected to the plurality of pads through the conductive pads, and receiving and analyzing electrical signals generated from the pads, Comprises a character signal output from the analyzer, parser and outputting a per character signal to an external information apparatus to a communication apparatus for transmitting by wire and radio is disclosed for janggaphyeong character input device which can input a character.

Also, Patent Document 3 discloses a method of producing a color image, comprising the steps of: photographing a plurality of color patterns having different colors and a plurality of color markers including a black region and a white region as a background of the color patterns to obtain an image; The method comprising the steps of: detecting an area in which color patterns are present; correcting the color of the color marker using the color of the black area and the white area of the color marker of the obtained image independently of the color markers; And extracting a sub marker having at least one color pattern out of the plurality of color marks.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2014-0062893 (published May 26, 2014) Korean Registered Patent No. 10-0498713 (registered on June 22, 2005) Korean Patent Publication No. 10-0963240 (registered on June 4, 2010)

However, in the technique disclosed in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, as a wearable device for a visually impaired person, a glove shape that can be worn on a user's body is provided, and a plurality of sensors such as a bending detection sensor and a touch detection sensor are used. There is a problem that the process of judging by combination of detection values is complicated and manufacturing cost is increased.

Further, in the technique disclosed in Patent Document 2, a plurality of conductive pads connected to the respective fingers by conductive lines are provided, and a character signal is generated by the contact of the thumb and the respective pads, so that the user must maintain accurate contact, There is a problem that the apparatus can not be used. In addition, in the above-described Patent Documents 1 and 2, since the apparatuses attach the contact sensors and the contact switches to all the contacts at every finger node, the number of sensors and switches becomes large and manufacturing difficulties arise. As a result, there is a problem that the feature input key can not be input even in the event of failure of one sensor.

In the technique disclosed in Patent Document 3, a sub-marker having at least one color pattern of color patterns is extracted by detecting an area where color patterns exist from the obtained image, and a system for extracting each color There is a problem that an error may occur in the process of recognizing the corresponding color.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a color recognition character information transmission system capable of capturing a plurality of colors preset in correspondence with letters or numbers and outputting them as letters or numbers.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a color recognition character information transmission system capable of capturing a plurality of colors provided on a display member by simple operation of a camera and a switch and outputting a character or number.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a color recognition character information transmission system which can provide a cheap and large-scale production by providing a display member made up of a plurality of colors in a glove.

In order to achieve the above object, a color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention is a system for transmitting color recognition character information that outputs a desired character or number by using a wearable device in the form of a globe, A system comprising: a display member mounted on the glove and having a plurality of colors corresponding to a plurality of letters or numbers; a plurality of colors mounted on the glove, the plurality of colors provided on the display member; A determination means for recognizing a character or a number, and an output means for outputting a character or a number determined by the determination means by wire / wireless communication with the determination means.

Further, in the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, the display member is provided in each of the portions corresponding to the index finger, the thumb finger, the medicinal finger and the small finger in the glove, and the judging means corresponds to the thumb in the glove Is provided.

Further, in the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, the display member includes a first finger, a middle finger, and a portion corresponding to the finger bottom of each of the index finger, the middle finger, The finger, the phalanges, and the small fingers, respectively.

In the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, the determination means may include a storage unit for storing information on the plurality of colors and information on a character or a number corresponding to each of the plurality of colors, A control unit for determining a character or a number corresponding to a color captured by the camera and a character or a number stored in the storage unit in response to an operation of the switch, And transmitting the information on the character or number to the output means.

In the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, the output means may be any one of a smart phone, a smart pad, a smart TV, a notebook computer, and a desktop computer, Information on the display unit is displayed in letters or numbers on the display unit or is outputted as a voice through a speaker.

In the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, the switch is operated by any one of the index finger, the thumb finger, the phalanges or the small finger and the thumb.

Further, in the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, each of the plurality of colors is painted on the glove and is made up of 15 different colors.

As described above, according to the color recognition character information transmission system of the present invention, a display member having a plurality of colors provided in a glove is photographed by a camera, and a character or a number corresponding to the photographed color is recognized and output The effect that the output of the letter or the number can be realized with high accuracy can be obtained.

Further, according to the color recognition character information transmission system of the present invention, characters or numbers can be recognized according to a plurality of colors provided in the glove, so that the system configuration can be simplified and manufacturing cost can be reduced.

Further, according to the color recognition character information transmission system of the present invention, a character or a number can be recognized by painting a plurality of colors on a glove and attaching a judgment means having a camera, so that the system can be mass- .

In addition, according to the color recognition character information transmission system of the present invention, a plurality of sensors and wires are not used as in the prior art, and a system in which a plurality of colors are painted or attached to a glove is reduced It is also possible to obtain an effect that can be achieved.

1 is a perspective view of a conventional gloved letter input device capable of inputting characters,
FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention,
FIG. 3 is a view showing a keyboard such as a switching key, a Hangul character key or the like in a state in which a display member applied to the present invention is provided on a glove,
4 is a view showing a keyboard of a numeric key or the like in a state in which a display member applied to the present invention is provided on a glove,
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a keyboard such as an English character key in a state in which a display member applied to the present invention is provided on a glove;
6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the determination means according to the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of generating letters or numbers according to the present invention; FIG.

These and other objects and novel features of the present invention will become more apparent from the description of the present specification and the accompanying drawings.

The color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention is a system for outputting a letter or number desired by a user using a glove-shaped wearable device mounted on the user's hand. The term " letter or number " used in the present invention includes letters, numerals, punctuation keys, function keys, enter keys, movement keys, deletion keys, characters generated by a Korean / English / Or a number.

That is, in the display member which is a constituent element of the present invention, the plurality of colors are each a character key, a numeric key, a punctuation key, a function key, an enter key, a move key, a delete key, Respectively.

The term 'glove' used in the present invention is not limited to a glove having five fingers separated from each other, but a structure capable of painting various colors is sufficient.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

2 is a configuration diagram of a color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the system for transmitting color recognition character information according to the present invention includes a color recognition character information transmission system for outputting a desired character or number by using a wearable device in the form of a glove, A display member 200 mounted on the glove 100 and having a plurality of colors corresponding to a plurality of letters or numbers; (300) for recognizing a character or a number corresponding to a photographed color, and a character or number judged by the judging means (300) by wired / wireless communication with the judging means (300) Output means (400).

The glove 100 may be a general glove which can be used by inserting a user's thumb, forefinger, thumb finger, weak hand, and little finger, and is made of a material capable of painting various colors on the glove display. Further, in the present invention, since the display member 200 having a plurality of colors is provided in the glove 100, it is preferable to use a color different from the color applied to the display member 200, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

The display member 200 will be described with reference to Figs. 3 to 5. Fig.

3 is a view showing a key board such as a conversion key and a Hangul character key in a state in which the display member 200 according to the present invention is provided in the glove 100. Figure 4 is a perspective view of the display member 200 according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is a view showing a keyboard such as an English character key in a state where the display member 200 applied to the present invention is provided on the glove 100. FIG. Fig.

As shown in Figs. 3 to 5, the display member 200 according to the present invention is provided at a portion corresponding to the index finger, the rolled finger, the weak finger, and the little finger in the glove 100, respectively. Specifically, the display member 200 includes a first portion, a middle portion, and a portion corresponding to the bottom of the fingers of each of the index finger, the middle finger, the medulla, and the small finger of the glove 100 and the index finger, It is preferable that the finger is provided in a color corresponding to each nail of the fingertip and the little finger, but a sticker or the like corresponding to each color may be applied and applied.

As shown in FIG. 3, for example, the display member 200 is provided in fifteen different colors, and a portion corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the first node, the middle node, and the end node of each of the index finger As shown in FIG. 3 to FIG. 5, yellow, yellow, and blue are arranged in this order, and portions corresponding to the bottoms of the fingers of the first node, middle node, and end node of each node finger are arranged in the order of light blue, And the portions corresponding to the bottoms of the fingers of the first node, the middle node and the fingers of the respective fingers are provided in the order of brown, full color, and purple. In the portion corresponding to the first node of each of the small fingers and the bottom of the middle node, Black, and white, and the areas corresponding to the respective fingernails of the forefinger, lower fingers, weak fingers, and little fingers are arranged in the order of aqua, green, It is provided in the order of colors.

Each of the nails of the thumb, index finger, thumb finger, medial finger, middle finger, corresponding part of the finger of the end node and the index finger, phallus finger, and small finger of each finger as described above Each of the fifteen respective colors provided in the portion corresponding to the light-emitting portion is exemplarily shown, and is not limited to such a color structure.

The determination means 300 will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the determination means according to the present invention. FIG.

The judging means 300 according to the present invention is provided at a portion corresponding to the thumb in the glove 100, as shown in FIG. Specifically, the judging means 300 judges whether or not the thumb, the middle finger, the middle finger, the part corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the end node and the forefinger, It is preferable to be provided at a position where the part corresponding to each nail of the little finger can be photographed at the time of photographing, and is not limited to the specific position.

6, the determination unit 300 may include a storage unit 310 for storing information on the plurality of colors and information on characters or numbers corresponding to each of the plurality of colors, A switch 330 for manipulating the photographing state of the camera 320 and a control unit 330 for controlling the color of the camera 320 and the storage unit 310 according to the operation of the switch 330 A control unit 340 for determining a character or a number in correspondence with a stored character or number, a communication unit 350 for transmitting information on the character or number determined by the control unit 340 to the output unit 400, 310, and a power unit for supplying power to the control unit 340 and the communication unit 350, respectively.

The storage unit 310 is made up of a conventional memory member and is made up of a plurality of colors such as yellow, yellow, blue, sky blue, orange, red, brown, full color, purple, black, white, As shown in FIG. 3, for example, information on purple and the Korean characters' c 'and' y 'corresponding to the yellow color provided at the first node of the forefinger and the numbers' 7' and ' As shown in FIG. 5, information on the alphabetic characters 'G, H, I, g, h, i' is stored.

The change of each Hangul, the number and the alphabetic characters shown in Figs. 3 to 5 is performed corresponding to the blue information provided at the part corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the tip of the forefinger.

The camera 320 is small enough to be provided at a portion corresponding to the thumb in the glove 100 and sufficient enough to capture and identify a plurality of colors provided in the display member 200 .

The switch 330 is provided on the front of the nail portion of the thumb and applies the structure of a contact switch capable of turning on and off the camera 330, Can be easily realized by a conventional switch structure, so that a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The control unit 340 includes a microprocessor and determines a character or a number in correspondence with a character or a number stored in the storage unit 310 according to the color photographed by the camera 320 and the number of operations of the switch 320. For example, when a user takes a yellow color provided at the first node of the index finger with the camera 320, operates the switch 330 (corresponding to the letter 'd'), and then photographs the green provided on the nail portion of the finger (Corresponding to the letter '.'), The control unit 340 generates a character 'more' to operate the switch (corresponding to the character '.'), 350).

The communication unit 350 has a communication function capable of performing normal wired / wireless transmission / reception, and can perform functions of Zigbee communication with the output unit 400 and RFID communication.

Although the memory 310 and the control unit 340 are described separately in the above description, the present invention is not limited to this, and the memory 310 and the control unit 340 may be integrally formed by a single semiconductor chip have. Also, the control unit 340 can be executed by the program module.

The output means 400 is any one of a smart phone, a smart pad, a smart TV, a notebook computer, and a desktop computer. The output means 400 may output information on characters or numbers transmitted through the communication unit 350 to a display unit Display, or the like), or output audio through a speaker.

As described above, in the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, letters or numbers can be generated corresponding to various colors photographed by the camera.

Next, an example of a process of generating and displaying a character by the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of generating letters or numbers according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 7, for example, the Korean character 'school' photographs the orange color provided at the middle part of the finger, and photographs the orange color once again after operating the switch 330, The control unit judges the character " he, " photographs the green color provided on the fingernail of the fingernail, photographs the green provided on the fingernail of the fingertip after manipulating the switch, and operates the switch. And the control unit 340 determines the character 'a' by operating the switch 330 so that the character 'a' is displayed on the character ' And 'science'. The character 'school' generated by the control unit 340 is transmitted to the output means 400 through the communication unit 350 and the output means 400 displays the character 'school' on the display unit or outputs it by voice.

Then, by photographing the brown color provided at the first node of the fingertip with the camera 320 and operating the switch 330, the controller 340 determines the character 'a' and photographs the green provided at the nail portion of the fingertip After the switch is operated and the green is again photographed and the switch is operated, the camera 340 captures the sea color provided at the portion corresponding to the nail of the forefinger and operates the switch, so that the control unit 340 displays the character ' And generates a character 'bridge'. The character 'bridge' generated by the control unit 340 is transmitted to the output means 400 through the communication unit 350 and the output means 400 displays the character 'Bridge' on the display unit or outputs it by voice. Accordingly, the character 'school' is displayed on the display unit provided in the output means 400.

In addition, when the number '123' is displayed, the camera 320 photographs the blue provided at the portion corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the end node of the forefinger, which is a numeric change key, To the number input state as shown in Fig.

Thereafter, the image of the sea color provided at the portion corresponding to the fingernail of the forefinger is photographed by the camera 320 and the switch 330 is operated, so that the controller 340 judges the number '1' The control unit determines the number '2' by taking a picture of the green provided at the part where the fingernail is formed and operating the switch. By photographing the green color provided at the part corresponding to the nail of the fingernail with the camera and operating the switch, ) Determines the number '3'. The number '123' determined by the control unit 340 is transmitted to the output unit 400 through the communication unit 350 and the output unit 400 displays the number '123' on the display unit or outputs it by voice.

In addition, in the case of displaying the English character 'school', the camera 320 photographs the blue provided at the portion corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the tip of the forefinger, which is a numeric switch key in the numeric input state shown in FIG. 4, To switch to the English input state as shown in Fig.

Then, by photographing the purple color provided at the bottom of the finger of the fingertip end segment with the camera 320 and operating the switch 330, the control unit 340 determines the character 's' The control unit 340 judges the character 'c' by photographing with the camera and repeating the operation of the switch three times. Then, the control unit 340 photographs the yellow color provided at the bottom of the finger of the first index finger with the camera and operates the switch The control unit 340 judges the character " h ", photographs the orange color provided at the portion corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the middle finger in the middle finger, and operates the switch three times The control unit 340 judges the character " o ", and continuously photographs the orange color provided at the portion corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the middle finger of the finger, The control unit 340 determines the character 'o' by repeating the operation of the value three times. The control unit 340 photographs the full color provided at the portion corresponding to the bottom of the finger of the middle node of the medial finger with the camera and operates the switch three times The control unit 340 determines the character 'l' and generates the English character 'school'. The character 'school' generated by the control unit 340 is transmitted to the output unit 400 through the communication unit 350 and the output unit 400 displays the character 'school' on the display unit or outputs it as a voice.

As described above, in the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, the controller 340 captures a plurality of colors painted on the glove with the camera 320 and operates the switch 330, The character or the number corresponding to the color stored in the memory 400 is recognized and outputted to the output means 400, whereby the output of the character or number can be realized with high accuracy.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

That is, although the wearable device implemented in the form of a glove is described in the above description, the type of the wearable device is not limited thereto and can be variously implemented. For example, although the structure in which the display member is provided in the glove has been described, the display member may be provided in the user's garment or separately on a print paper or the like.

By using the color recognition character information transmission system according to the present invention, a character or a number corresponding to a captured color is recognized and output, so that the output of a character or a number can be realized with high accuracy.

100: Glove
200: display member
300: Judgment means
400: output means

Claims (7)

A color recognition character information transmission system for outputting a desired character or number by using a wearable device in the form of a globe provided corresponding to each finger of a user,
A display member mounted on the glove and having a plurality of colors corresponding to a plurality of letters or numbers,
Determining means for photographing a plurality of colors provided on the display member and recognizing a letter or a number corresponding to the photographed color, mounted on the glove,
And output means for outputting the character or number determined by the determination means by wire / wireless communication with the determination means,
Wherein the determination means is provided at a portion corresponding to the thumb in the glove,
Wherein the judging means comprises a camera for photographing the plurality of colors and a switch for operating the photographing state of the camera,
The switch is a contact switch that can turn ON / OFF the camera,
Wherein the switch is operated by one of the index finger, the thumb finger, the phalanges or the small finger and the thumb. The method of claim 1,
Wherein the display member is provided at a portion corresponding to the index finger, the thumb finger, the phallus finger, and the little finger in the glove. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the display member has a first portion corresponding to the nail of each of the first, middle, and nail fingers of the forefinger, the middle finger, the medulla, and the minor finger and the nail of each of the forefinger, And the character recognition information is transmitted to the character recognizing unit. The method of claim 1,
The determination means
A storage unit for storing information on the plurality of colors and information on characters or numbers corresponding to each of the plurality of colors,
A control unit for determining a character or a number in correspondence with a color captured by the camera and a character or number stored in the storage unit according to an operation of the switch,
Further comprising a communication unit for transmitting information on the character or number determined by the control unit to the output unit. 5. The method of claim 4,
The output means is any one of a smart phone, a smart pad, a smart TV, a notebook computer, and a desktop computer,
Wherein the output means displays information on the letters or numbers transmitted through the communication unit on the display unit in letters or numbers or outputs the information through a speaker. delete The method of claim 1,
Wherein each of the plurality of colors is painted on the glove and comprises fifteen different colors.

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