Title :
PERSEUS personal help for blind user
Author :
Stanislav Vítek;Miloš Klíma
Author_Institution :
Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická
Abstract :
Considerable part of the population has any sensory or perceptual impairment. Thanks to massive progress of multimedia and permanent increasing of power of small or miniature computer an appropriate assistive technology is accessible for almost everyone who need assistance for his life. In this paper is introduced project to help blind people. First part of the article presents a review of existing assistance devices for visually impaired, in the second part follows description of the new system using combination of human operator, video stream from the user´s device and acoustic beacon to navigate user.
Keywords :
"Cameras","Navigation","Streaming media","Radiofrequency identification","Acoustics","IEEE 802.11 Standards","Context"
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electronics (AE), 2010 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-80-7043-865-7