A Portable electronic document reading device for the blind and visually impaired

The invention relates to a handheld, portable document reading device for the blind and visually impaired for reading printed text documents. The reading device comprises: an input device for capturing multiple overlapping images of the document selected by the user; a computing device responding to...

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Hauptverfasser:	IR. AMIT SHRIKANT GUDADHE, IR. WOUTER BEREND HORSTINK
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACOUSTICS BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS CALCULATING COMPUTING COUNTING DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS FIRST-AID KITS FOMENTATION HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES PHYSICS PRESENTATION OF DATA PROSTHESES RECOGNITION OF DATA RECORD CARRIERS SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING SPEECH RECOGNITION TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS
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Zusammenfassung:	The invention relates to a handheld, portable document reading device for the blind and visually impaired for reading printed text documents. The reading device comprises: an input device for capturing multiple overlapping images of the document selected by the user; a computing device responding to the user input and comprising of: - image processing module configured to process the image data such that the received multiple pair of images are matched for overlapping regions, stitched together and processed to recognise the text; - text output module configured to output the processed text in a format conceivable to the blind or visually impaired user; and a housing comprising of typically two or more parts, each part containing the image capture unit and a second part also containing the computing device and user input device.