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[access-uk] Re: TALKING PICTURES

From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:08:06 +0100

TALKING PICTURESA similar thought also came to me.  However although phones can 
be made to speak, do have cameras on them, neither camera or processing power 
currently included is quite up to the demands of the job.

It is at least theoretically possible in personal estimation that in about 2 to 
5 years we may have phones that could do the job.  I think processing power 
that can be economically shoehorned in may be the most demanding issue given 
that for a phone battery life is a fairly critical issue.  Also the optics on a 
phone camera are not quite as good as your average standard 5 mega pixel camera 
just yet upon which the reader is based.  

The cameras on mobiles don't do so well indoors usually because of the flash if 
it is there is not as good as on a standard camera, this would be important to 
KNFB reader offspring.  Some of the latest Nokia phones have a 3.2 MP CCD with 
Carl Zeiss lens.  Personally I wouldn;t have credited such a powerful camera in 
a phone, but it seems increasingly that these two devices are becoming one, 
such that for happy snaps perhaps you'll only take your mobile phone with you 
on holiday or wherever rather than camera as well.

Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian Macrae 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 1:49 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] TALKING PICTURES


  Just had a look at the KNFB portable reader and it's very impressive.  
However, a sighted colleague has raised an interesting point.  If we have 
phones which can talk and which have cameras on them, how long will it be and 
what would it take before they can do the same thing at a much smaller cost?  
Any thoughts?


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