DocumentCode
3736296
Title
A white cane mounted with infrared sensors to detect automatic doors
Author
Wataru Uemura;Takato Hayama
Author_Institution
Ryukoku University, Otsu city, Shiga, Japan
fYear
2015
Firstpage
54
Lastpage
56
Abstract
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 285 million visually impaired people in the world, with 39 million people seeing nothing. A person obtains 83 percent of their information from their eyesight. A visually impaired person supplements this information by touching and hearing. A visually impaired person uses a white cane for movement assistance. The white cane has three roles, mainly: (1) securing security, (2) collecting information necessary for walking, and (3) informing neighboring people about themself. A white cane can detect most obstacles in the front.
Keywords
"Conferences","Consumer electronics"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), 2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2015.7391330
Filename
7391330
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