Title :
A Braille Recognition System by the Mobile Phone with Embedded Camera
Author :
Zhang, Shanjun ; Yoshino, Kazuyoshi
Author_Institution :
Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama
Abstract :
It has been suggested that blind and visually impaired people may have difficulty reading Braille that is widely set in the public place according to barrier free policy of the government. This paper describes a new system that recognizes Braille characters from a photo taken by a mobile phone with embedded camera. The photo is dealt with by a Java program developed by "DoJa I-appli tool kit " to supply a real time reply.
Keywords :
Java; cameras; cellular radio; character recognition; handicapped aids; mobile computing; Braille character recognition system; DoJa I-appli tool kit; Java program; embedded camera; mobile phone; Cameras; Character recognition; Encoding; Filters; Government; Information science; Java; Mobile handsets; Production; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 2007. ICICIC '07. Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kumamoto
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2882-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICICIC.2007.4
