iVisit SeeScan Cell Phone 'Seeing Eye' Camera For Blind
iVisit now offers SeeScan, real-time object recognition software that runs on and uses your cell phone camera. As a result, the blind now have what amounts to a seeing eye cell phone.
Developed in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the iVisit system provides a remarkable service; take a look at the iVisit software recognize and state the identity of a variety of objects.
(iVisit object recognition cell phone camera)
iVisit SeeScan software can be used with monetary transactions, shopping, reading prescriptions, range and orientation estimates and generalized text-to-speech.
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