Suranga nanayakkara who as a postdoc at mit helped develop the finger reader a device aimed at helping people with visual impairments read without the need for clunky hardware.
Finger reader for blind wikipedia.
The optacon optical to tactile converter is an electromechanical device that enables blind people to read printed material that has not been transcribed into braille.
Wiredreporter sandy ong highlights the work of prof.
At mit s media labs researchers roy shilkrot jochen huber and others are working on the fingerreader a ring like device that straps itself around your finger and reads printed text out loud.
In our previous work we have created a fingerreader v0 finger worn assistive augmentation with the vision of empowering and enabling people with visual impairments.
Mit fingerreader device reads to the blind in real time july 8 2014 11 27 am ap cambridge mass.
While using a computer a blind user can make use.
There are different types of fingerprint readers on the market but the basic idea behind each is to measure the physical difference between ridges and valleys.
Microsoft fingerprint reader was a device sold by microsoft primarily for homes and small businesses the underlying software providing the biometrics was developed by digital persona.
Solid state fingerprint readers and optical fingerprint readers.
Scientists at the massachusetts institute of technology are developing an audio reading.
With fingerreader blind users are able to simply point at products text phases etc.
The procedure for capturing a fingerprint using a.
The fingerreader mounted on the user s finger is equipped with a number of sensors that allows it to read text on a page on behalf of the reader.
Fingerprint readers are more secure reliable and convenient than a normal traditional password although they have been subject to spoofing.
The device consists of two parts.
All the proposed methods can be grouped into two major families.
And have the results spoken back to them.
A scanner which the user runs over the material to be read and a finger pad which translates the words into vibrations felt on the finger tips.