[real-eyes] Moble Eyes
- From: "Reginald George" <sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:21:03 -0500
This product would appear to compete directly with the NFB Kurzweil reader.
Wonder how they compare in size, weight, speed of recognition, accuracy, and
price?
This is from the accessible devices list.
Reg
This is all the information we currently have on this new product.
New Mobile Eyes Portable Text To Speech Scanner
Guerilla Technologies Inc, a Florida based company, exhibited their new Portable
Reading Machine/Magnifier for the visually impaired at the 2007 ATIA (Assistive
Technology
Industry Association) Conference last month. The company's device named
MobilEyes
[Mobile Eyes] has proprietary software running on one of the emerging UMPC
industry's
tablet sized computers. Currently, the Samsung Q1 has the task of supporting
Optical Character Recognition
(OCR), Text-to-Speech output, Live Picture and Still Photograph Magnification,
and
a host of other multimedia transfer, storage, and playback options.
With the aid of a ten mega pixel camera mounted to the rear side of the unit, a
visually
impaired person can point the device in the direction of presumed text and, in
a few seconds, hear any words visible within the photograph, read out loud.
Practical
uses are: reading the menu in a restaurant, wall mounted signs containing text
information,
newspapers, magazines, mail, advertisements, or products in a grocery store not
easily
identified by the shape of the container/box. The MobilEyes Reader can even
recognize
a UPC barcode and identify the product, brand/manufacturer and size of an item.
When
used as a video magnifier, a person can enlarge the view of any item on the
MobilEyes'
7 inch video screen or connect to any computer monitor for even greater
magnification.
Although you might say to yourself, "Even with 20/20 vision, I would have a hard
time aiming and shooting good photographs," having a portable camera stand that
steadies
and aligns the device to an 8 1/2 X 11 inch sheet of paper alleviates any such
difficulty for a MobilEyes user.
A Professional model comes with a portable flatbed scanner that can even
identify
US currency.
While not commenting on other functions the MobilEyes Reader may perform in the
future,
Guerilla Technologies stated goal was to combine, "a variety of assistive
technology
devices into one." For more information about their Portable and Stand-Alone
Readers,
including how to contact the company, see their website:
www.GuerillaTechnologies.com
or
www.MyMobilEyes.com
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