SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING BLIND OR VISUAL-IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS TO RECOGNIZE ITEMS
THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO A SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING BLIND OR VISUAL-IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS TO RECOGNIZE ITEMS THEY WANT TO PURCHASE IN A SITE COMPRISE SAT LEAST ONE RFID TRANSMITTING TAG (100) AFFIXED TO THE ITEM HAVING A SERIAL NUMBER REPRESENTING THE ITEM; A DATABASE SERVER (105) STORING THE SER...
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Zusammenfassung: | THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO A SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING BLIND OR VISUAL-IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS TO RECOGNIZE ITEMS THEY WANT TO PURCHASE IN A SITE COMPRISE SAT LEAST ONE RFID TRANSMITTING TAG (100) AFFIXED TO THE ITEM HAVING A SERIAL NUMBER REPRESENTING THE ITEM; A DATABASE SERVER (105) STORING THE SERIAL NUMBER AND THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ITEMS; AND A PORTABLE TERMINAL UNIT (110) WIRELESSLY CONNECTED TO THE DATABASE SERVER (105) AND TO BE CARRIED BY THE INDIVIDUAL FOR READING THE INFORMATION FROM RFID TRANSMITTING TAG (I00) AND CONVEYING THE INFORMATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL; CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE PORTABLE TERMINAL UNIT (110) HAS AN RFID READER FOR READING THE SERIAL NUMBER OF THE ITEM AND A SYSTEM APPLICATION (115) FOR PROCESSING THE DETECTED INFORMATION, THE SYSTEM APPLICATION (115) COMPRISING A DATA SCANNING MODULE (120) AND A TEXT-TO-VOICE MODULE (125); WHEREBY THE DATA SCANNING MODULE (120) SCANS THE SERIAL NUMBER OF THE ITEM AND VERIFIES THE SERIAL NUMBER WITH THE DATABASE SERVER (105); AND THE TEXT-TO-VOICE MODULE (125) TRANSLATES THE INFORMATION FROM TEXT INTO VOICE. |
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