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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.
Take a look at several similar devices from Technovelgy's vast database of previous articles:
- SentiSight Object Recognition For Robot Overlords
SentiSight enables the learning of objects and searching for learned objects in images from almost any camera, webcam, still picture or live video. - Smart Goggles Identify, Remember What You See
When the user asks to see footage related to a particular object, the corresponding video plays in a tiny LCD attached to the right lens.
From via MedGadget.
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