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A prototype helping device for the visually impaired using an optical to mechanical transducer
conference contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 16:20 authored by Garibaldi Pineda Garcia, José Ortíz Bejar, José Francisco Mercado MiramontesComputer hardware is becoming ubiquitous, from kitchen appliances to research machines to cell phones. This availability of computing capable circuits has driven its cost down, thus making several applications possible on commercial hardware. Computer vision is one of such tasks, it is now possible to create computer based helping devices for the visually impaired. In recent years there has been an explotion of computer vision hardware for many applications, 3D scanners in particular which are used to interact with regular operative systems or games. This paper presents an apparatus which uses one of such devices (Kinect) developed by Microsoft that senses the world in 3D. This information is then processed with a low-power computer called the BeagleBone whose output will be sent to the user via mechanical pulses.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Accepted version
Journal
2013 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersExternal DOI
Event name
2013 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)Event location
Morelia, Michoacán, MéxicoEvent type
conferenceEvent date
13-15 Nov. 2013Place of publication
México City, MéxicoISBN
9781479923700Series
IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
Research groups affiliated with
- Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes