As a result, a smart cane was developed, although it is expensive for most of blind people. The main objective of this paper is to introduce an affordable smart cane for every visually impaired person. The ultrasonic sensors in this walking stick are used to identify ...
Devices, systems, and methods for providing auditory sensory substitution using an assistive device are disclosed. Objects in the real-world are observed by a depth camera and classified. The classification is used to identify a sound corresponding to the object. In some cases, the position of th...
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For the 285 million visually impaired people worldwide, assistive technology has come a long way since the white cane was popularized in the 1920s. Yet high-tech solutions to help these individuals navigate the world around them can often be intrusive, unintuitive, and expensive. ...
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The aim of this paper is to present a survey of the activities carried out by the University Politecnica delle Marche concerning the safe mobility of visually impaired people in order to involve the control and automation community and present some hints for discussion. For this purpose, this ...
Equal accessibility to public places and services is now required by law in many countries. In the case of the vision-impaired, it is often the use of specialised technology which can provide them with a fuller enjoyment of all the facilities of society from large scale meetings and public en...
he paper is aimed at the design of a mobility assistive device to help the visually impaired. The traditional use of a walking stick proposes its own drawbacks and limitations. Our research is motivated by the inability of the visually impaired people to ambulate and we have made an attempt ...
Implementation of TTS with tactile mobile based assistive device for visually impaired people - ScienceDirect The creation of interactive bit devices poses a brand-new set of text-entry challenges. Once considering blind folks, these are additional evident, as a result of bit screens lack the tacti...