19. The visual communication device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising speech synthesizer means for pronouncing said natural language words received from said input means coincident with the display of the corresponding video images, and means for transmitting said pronunciations to said human receiver.
1. A visual communication device for translating a natural language into visual images to be viewed by a human receiver comprising, in combination, video memory means for storing a plurality of predetermined video images at predetermined image addresses, video display means for displaying selected images from said video memory to said human receiver, image dictionary memory means for storing predetermined sets of said image addresses associated with respective ones of a predetermined set of natural language words and addressable to obtain the respective stored set of image addresses for a selected natural language word, input means for receiving selected natural language words, and control means for repetitively obtaining individual ones of the selected natural language words from said input means, addressing said image dictionary memory means to obtain the respective sets of image addresses for the selected natural language words, and addressing said video memory means at the respective sets of image addresses to obtain images for display by said video display for viewing by said human receiver, so that the selected natural language words are automatically translated into a succession of visual images for viewing by said human receiver.