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Hi

We are a group of students who are working on a project where our goal is to make a product or come up with an idea for a product that can make life easier for people that are hard of hearing or completely deaf.

We are now trying to find out what is out there and what we can make, so please come with suggestions or links to gadgets that already exist.

One idea that we are thinking of is a sound detection system for use in cars. It purposes will be to detect important sounds, such as police / fire engine siren, accidents and so on, and display to the driver what sound was detected and where it came from.

What do you think about this idea? Any suggestions?
 
vingtor said:
One idea that we are thinking of is a sound detection system for use in cars. It purposes will be to detect important sounds, such as police / fire engine siren, accidents and so on, and display to the driver what sound was detected and where it came from.
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i think we have a sound detecting device that warns us with flashing. wud someone correct me if i am wrong.

vingtor said:
What do you think about this idea? Any suggestions?
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hmm how bout text messenging walkie talkie ? or should we call walkie messing ? ;)
 
Here's an idea that's been brewing in my head for a long time and it's been brought up on this message board in the past and I even saw a news report once about a comparable technology, but until I see something I can actually buy It doesn't exist to me.

Here's the idea:

in a nutshell it's captions in movie theaters.
I envision a small device that attaches to a head mounted display, The head mounted display would need to be the type that super imposes an image over whatever is in the field of view of the wearer. and the small device, would feed captions for the movie to the head mounted display.

It's quite simple really, it would not take much for software to be written on a modern PDA, and then some sort of interface would be needed for the Head mounted display. The head mounted display technology needed already exists, its just a matter of getting it to interface with a PDA or other "ultra mobile" computer. The hard part is getting the captioning info, There are movies that are open captioned and rear window captioned already so, major released movies are captioned by the time they hit the theaters. Perhaps working with one or those organizations would be helpful.
The other problem is synchronization, but that's small compared to the other hurdles I've mentioned.
 
farmerjoe said:
Here's an idea that's been brewing in my head for a long time and it's been brought up on this message board in the past and I even saw a news report once about a comparable technology, but until I see something I can actually buy It doesn't exist to me.

Here's the idea:

in a nutshell it's captions in movie theaters.
I envision a small device that attaches to a head mounted display, The head mounted display would need to be the type that super imposes an image over whatever is in the field of view of the wearer. and the small device, would feed captions for the movie to the head mounted display.

It's quite simple really, it would not take much for software to be written on a modern PDA, and then some sort of interface would be needed for the Head mounted display. The head mounted display technology needed already exists, its just a matter of getting it to interface with a PDA or other "ultra mobile" computer. The hard part is getting the captioning info, There are movies that are open captioned and rear window captioned already so, major released movies are captioned by the time they hit the theaters. Perhaps working with one or those organizations would be helpful.
The other problem is synchronization, but that's small compared to the other hurdles I've mentioned.
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That would be cool to have cc at the movie. But can we have to wear a hat any kind of hat to wear thoses head mounted display??

Or you could put it on the back of the chair that is in front of you without interfer with someone else sitting there.
 
Well, a sound-detection system wouldn't always work because of two things...

Not all police cars use their sirens when driving or pulling people over, they just use the lights.

Some traffic sounds can distort the sounds of the sirens.

I would recommend a detection system that alerts people that an emergency vehicle is behind them, but we would have to have those devices installed on all emergency vehicles as well in order for these cars to detect them. That's more money to be spent by the city.
 
horselover61 said:
That would be cool to have cc at the movie. But can we have to wear a hat any kind of hat to wear thoses head mounted display??

Or you could put it on the back of the chair that is in front of you without interfer with someone else sitting there.
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The head mounted display that i'm thinking of would fit on your face like a pair of goggles or glasses. no hat or helmet or anything.

the best part about my idea is that it could work in ANY theater and almost any movie. If I want to see a movie in a theater, I have to drive almost an hour, and I have my choice of one or two movies, because those are the only movies that are rear-window captioned. but if there were things like this, I could just take my equipment to my local theater and enjoy the movie there.
 
Thanks for your suggestions, please come with more if you have some!

As for "captions in movie theatres" I can se one big problem with your idea. Your eyes have to focus on two different places at the same time (the text and the movie), which you cant when they are at different distances from your eyes. I'm not saying it is impossible to make something, but it will involve a lot of optics and our group does not have people with speciality in this field (but it is a good idea; I discussed this approach in another matter just some weeks ago).
 
vingtor said:
Hi

We are a group of students who are working on a project where our goal is to make a product or come up with an idea for a product that can make life easier for people that are hard of hearing or completely deaf.

We are now trying to find out what is out there and what we can make, so please come with suggestions or links to gadgets that already exist.

One idea that we are thinking of is a sound detection system for use in cars. It purposes will be to detect important sounds, such as police / fire engine siren, accidents and so on, and display to the driver what sound was detected and where it came from.

What do you think about this idea? Any suggestions?
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Add a new VideoPhone (VP) ability to the SideKick. Maybe you can contact Sorenson Communications as it is expert with video compression. click below for more info.
Sorenson Communications
Sorenson VRS

Good luck
 
IloveVP said:
Add a new VideoPhone (VP) ability to the SideKick. Maybe you can contact Sorenson Communications as it is expert with video compression. click below for more info.
Sorenson Communications
Sorenson VRS

Good luck
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There just isn't enough bandwidth with a sidekick, plus there's no way to cram a good camera into one. Plus, how will you sign while you're holding it?! :)

One Improvement I'd like to see with video phones is connectabilty. Take a look at some of the message boards on Alldeaf and just see how much of a pain to get a VP to work at all, let alone work like a phone with incoming calls. There are ways around the sorensen vp directory but that sucks. I shouldn't have to go through a central server owned by some company I don't like and can't trust. What we need is a de-centralized system to facilitate direct connections between VPs. it should be open source so that it can be spread freely and implimented in as many VPs as possible.

I recently learned about a program called CSpace (CSpace) If we could apply this concept in VPs you'd never have to worry about port forwarding or NATs, just open one port and it works.
 
farmerjoe said:
There just isn't enough bandwidth with a sidekick, plus there's no way to cram a good camera into one. Plus, how will you sign while you're holding it?! :)

One Improvement I'd like to see with video phones is connectabilty. Take a look at some of the message boards on Alldeaf and just see how much of a pain to get a VP to work at all, let alone work like a phone with incoming calls. There are ways around the sorensen vp directory but that sucks. I shouldn't have to go through a central server owned by some company I don't like and can't trust. What we need is a de-centralized system to facilitate direct connections between VPs. it should be open source so that it can be spread freely and implimented in as many VPs as possible.

I recently learned about a program called CSpace (CSpace) If we could apply this concept in VPs you'd never have to worry about port forwarding or NATs, just open one port and it works.
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When FCC allows 3G, then it would be just fine for VP in cell or pager. Sweden and Japan are already in 3G and all is well in CELL videophone.
 
farmerjoe said:
Here's an idea that's been brewing in my head for a long time and it's been brought up on this message board in the past and I even saw a news report once about a comparable technology, but until I see something I can actually buy It doesn't exist to me.

Here's the idea:

in a nutshell it's captions in movie theaters.
I envision a small device that attaches to a head mounted display, The head mounted display would need to be the type that super imposes an image over whatever is in the field of view of the wearer. and the small device, would feed captions for the movie to the head mounted display.

It's quite simple really, it would not take much for software to be written on a modern PDA, and then some sort of interface would be needed for the Head mounted display. The head mounted display technology needed already exists, its just a matter of getting it to interface with a PDA or other "ultra mobile" computer. The hard part is getting the captioning info, There are movies that are open captioned and rear window captioned already so, major released movies are captioned by the time they hit the theaters. Perhaps working with one or those organizations would be helpful.
The other problem is synchronization, but that's small compared to the other hurdles I've mentioned.
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There is a closed caption in movie theatre in USA. I saw one in Memphis, TN amd ot real neat how they closed caption thier movie.

The put a huge caption sign on the rear wall where the projector window is at and you get a reflective plastic glass that you put in your cup holder movie seat and adjust the reflective glass to aim at the sign behind you.


When movie start the lights come on on the sign but reversed lettering like looking at a mirror all letter on backward but it shine on your reflective glass so you can see the caption in right order and watch movie at the same time.


I adjust my reflective glass to put it right below the screen like a TV Close caption and it does not bother anyone around me but if someone stand up behind you and walk like to go buy snack or bathroom sometime you can see them blocking reflecting caption letter while walking in asiles however that ok for me since it very rare people leave theatre and back.


I believe name of theate is called Palace in Memphis, TN.

I go there when I am visiting Memphis but they only have it in one theatre room and only show it on one movie however the sign on rear wall is working all the time during movies and front ticket desk will loan you reflective glass which you leave at the seat when you leave theatre and worker will go collect it after the movie finish.



I like thier caption system very much and hope near future it will become widely avaiable in all theatre.



Bill
 
TechBill said:
I like thier caption system very much and hope near future it will become widely avaiable in all theatre.

Bill
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I hope you're right but I'm not going to hold my breath.

The rear projection caption technology you're talking about has been around for a long time. Theaters that have it only have one screen with it and only show one captioned movie per week.

I don't want to drive an hour or more to see a movie and only get to choose from one single movie per week. If a movie comes out and I want to see it, it's usually not the one that's captioned, and if it is, I can't drive 10 minutes to see it in the theater near my home, I'd have to drive about an hour each way.

It's expensive to add the rear window caption projector into a movie theater, and there are a limited number of each movie that's captioned.

My idea does not cost the theater company money, and does not require a special captioned copy of the film.

here's a list of all the theaters that can play captioned movies in the US and canada.
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I already see myself that sign mobile watch. It is pretty cool than just stupid branch of SIDEKICK FANS. No rude..

Sidekick isn't answer. Verizon or Cingular is the answer to using high speed wireless while Tmobile don't have that one yet.

I already seen myself and try it. I don't know how that work and its was display at Disney World at Ecpot.

I am not crazy.. if you were wonder. :)
 
To make the project successful with car detection, you would be better off working with frequency broadcast. Pass a law that required all emergency vehicles to broadcast their specific frequency and the frequency can be picked up by whatever devices you want to alert, such as pagers or gps device within the car, etc.
 
ideafspy said:
I already see myself that sign mobile watch. It is pretty cool than just stupid branch of SIDEKICK FANS. No rude..

Sidekick isn't answer. Verizon or Cingular is the answer to using high speed wireless while Tmobile don't have that one yet.

I already seen myself and try it. I don't know how that work and its was display at Disney World at Ecpot.

I am not crazy.. if you were wonder. :)
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PFFTT....

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Cheers,
MDA2007
 
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