• 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