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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Bionic Eyeglass: Personal Navigation System for Visually Impaired People

Authors : Kristóf Karacs, Róbert Wagner, Tamás Roska

Published in: Focal-Plane Sensor-Processor Chips

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

The first self-contained experimental prototype of a Bionic Eyeglass is presented here, a device that helps blind and visually impaired people in basic tasks of their everyday life by converting visual information into audio signal. The indoor and outdoor situations and tasks have been selected by a technical committee consisting of blind and visually impaired persons, considering their most important needs and potential practical benefits that an audio guide can provide. The prototype system uses a cell phone as a front-end and an embedded cellular visual computer as a computing device. Typical events have been collected in the Blind Mobile Navigation Database to validate the algorithms developed.

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Metadata
Title
Bionic Eyeglass: Personal Navigation System for Visually Impaired People
Authors
Kristóf Karacs
Róbert Wagner
Tamás Roska
Copyright Year
2011
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Focal-Plane Sensor-Processor Chips

Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-6474-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4419-6475-5

Copyright Year: 2011

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6475-5_10