63 results about "Visual disability" patented technology

A voice menu system is disclosed. The present invention generally allows for updateable audio menus. Although a device might have some pre-packaged menu components, other menu components can be received from a server. Each menu component, regardless of whether it is original or received from the server, has an associated voiced name. When a user highlights a menu choice, the voiced name can be played. The user then has the option of selecting the menu choice or scrolling to a new menu choice. In this way, a user could navigate the menu without having to actually see a visual display of the menu, which may be especially useful for users unable to see the visual display or users with visual disabilities.

A voice menu system is disclosed. The present invention generally allows for updateable audio menus. Although a device might have some pre-packaged menu components, other menu components can be received from a server. Each menu component, regardless of whether it is original or received from the server, has an associated voiced name. When a user highlights a menu choice, the voiced name can be played. The user then has the option of selecting the menu choice or scrolling to a new menu choice. In this way, a user could navigate the menu without having to actually see a visual display of the menu, which may be especially useful for users unable to see the visual display or users with visual disabilities.

The present invention relates to a hand-held communication aid and method that assists the deaf-dumb and visually impaired individuals to communicate with each other and with normal individuals. The method enables deaf-dumb and visually impaired individuals to communicate with each other and with normal individuals on remote communication means without any hardware improvisation. The method enables face to face communication and remote communication aid for deaf-dumb and visually impaired individuals. This method requires no modifications in hand-held communication device used by normal individual.

Techniques for a visual disability detection system that employs virtual reality to assess visual performance of a patient based on activities of daily living are described. The virtual reality platform can integrate the testing of different components of visual function based on activities of daily living to provide a direct and clinically relevant measure of the impact of any visual disability on a patient's daily life. By simulating daily tasks for evaluation of visual disability, clinicians can better understand from a patient's perspective how visual impairment affects their daily tasks and quality of life.

The present invention concerns an orientation, navigation and information system, especially adapted for blind or visually impaired people. It is essentially a system that allows blind or visually impaired people to access information usually made available only to public transportation users visually, through posters or informative signs, or through dynamic information screens of various nature. It allows, first of all, the access to information from the outside or within private or public facilities or locations, using a conventional mobile phone (2) equipped with one or more additional communication channels, or a wireless communicator, and in second place, it allows also, simultaneously, the orientation and navigation of the system user(s), through places of interest (20), according to their instructions, using a discreet and non-obstructive system of acoustic emitters (3, 17), and using also a cell system or radio communication network (6) like Bluetooth and / or Wi-Fi and / or others, inserted in and related with the places of interest of the user (1). This allows the user to know his (her) accurate localization and can guide his (her) route. The present orientation, navigation and information system can also be used by people without visual impairment, by adapting the system, for example, to display orientation instructions visually.

A method, system and program for selectively applying translucent filters to graphical images according to visual disability needs are provided. An image is received at a receiver communicatively connected via a network to an image server and connected to a display device for output of the image. A translucent style is specified for a particular user at the receiver. A translucent filter overlay is applied over the image according to the translucent style for output to the display device, such that the image output to the display device is adjusted to specifically accommodate for a visual disability of the particular user.

The invention includes an exercise mat that provides intuitive tactile feedback allowing a user to determine body placement using the sense of touch. The invention enables visually impaired users to determine location and / or direction on the mat. The invention includes devices to assist a user in correct foot and hand placements during a yoga posture sequence, an exercise program, a dance routine, and so forth. Tactile markers for hand and foot placement enable discerning a reference marker as either intended for hand or foot, right side or left side, and forward or backward. The invention makes yoga more accessible to the visually impaired and enables a user to participate in mainstream yoga communities. The invention can be used for the practice of yoga in a class setting in schools for the blind, in public or private studios, or at home. The mat can be used in a yoga class to follow instructions with more ease and independence. The pliable nature of the mat allows it to be easily portable to schools, studios, and storage at home.

A system and method in accordance with the present invention allows blind and visually impaired users to quickly identify links to relevant material when “viewing” web pages that consist primarily of either plain text or images. By generating an aural or visual index to the links on the page being “viewed”, blind and visually impaired users can quickly jump to interesting sites that are linked from the current page without having to wait for the entire page to be voiced by a screen reader application.

Provided are cell compositions including non-retinal cell types that have been reprogrammed to form retinal stem cells, and methods for producing and using same. Such reprogrammed cells can be used to replace one or more retinal cell types that have been lost due to damage and / or disease and are thus useful in treating or preventing visual impairment.

The invention relates to assessing the level of visual contrast between foreground and background in visually presented information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining whether a given set of foreground and background colors creates sufficient visual contrast to ensure legibility for the general population, as well as for individuals with visual disabilities, including color blindness / deficiency.

A feeding bottle includes a body, a temperature sensing and measuring plate on a lateral wall portion of the body, and a plate-shaped warning device covered by the temperature sensing and measuring plate; the temperature sensing and measuring plate can change colors with temperature to indicate the temperature for the users such as the parents, nursing persons, and diners; the warning device can give a certain kind of sound effect according to the temperature so that the parents / nursing persons can easily make sure that the food contents of the feeding bottle isn't too hot before they feed little children / persons with disabilities; little children, the elderly, and persons with visual disabilities also can be directly warned by the warning sound effects given by the warning device if the temperature is too high.

A shoe tying device or apparatus comprising a ring and a method of using same to facilitate the tying of laces in lace-up shoes and also a method of using same. The shoe tying device is lightweight and unobtrusive, allowing the shoe to often stay tied longer than typical without the device while generally maintaining a normal “bow” appearance. Further, the device is economical and reusable. The shoe tying device is particularly helpful for children, the visually impaired, and the mentally and physically handicapped.

The invention relates to a liquid crystal display device critical point disability test method, comprising the steps of: inputting a check voltage different from a normal working range into a liquid crystal display device; collecting the display picture output by the liquid crystal display device, and judging the uniformity sharpening degree of the check image to obtain the liquid crystal display device critical point disability result. The invention inputs a check voltage different from a normal working range, to represent the electric disability and visual disability of difficult discovery, thereby effectively detecting the critical point disability of a liquid crystal display device.

The method is suitable for the technical field of password auxiliary input. The invention provides a password input method and a terminal device. The terminal device is provided with an auxiliary device matched with a virtual keyboard. The auxiliary device comprises: a first support provided with a touch mark, and a second support provided with a touch mark. The password input method comprises thefollowing steps of: after a person with visual impairment is monitored to find a column where a target key is located by touching a touch mark on the first bracket, the first preset gesture sliding along the column where the target key is located; or, after the visual impairment person finds the row where the target key is located by touching the touch mark on the second support, after a first preset gesture sliding along a row where a target is located is detected, sending out voice information, and after a second preset gesture is detected, characters at the contact position of the first preset gesture can be input, so that a person with visual impairment is assisted in inputting a password through a touch screen.

The invention relates to assessing the level of visual contrast between foreground and background in visually presented information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for determining whether a given set of foreground and background colors creates sufficient visual contrast to ensure legibility for the general population, as well as for individuals with visual disabilities, including color blindness / deficiency.

In 2019, the World Health Organization stated that globally, approximately 2.2 billion people live with some form of vision impairment. Visual impairment limits the ability to perform everyday tasks and adversely affects the ability to interact with the surrounding world, thus discouraging individuals navigating unpredictable and unknown environments. The present invention is a method and a system to define and develop a smart navigation intelligent cane (i-Cane) that enables a visually impaired person to navigate his or her environment. The method and the system detects objects along the path of the visually impaired person, measures the distance of the objects from the person, identifies the objects, uses speech to alert the person of the approaching objects, the type of objects obstructing the path, and the distance between the objects and the person.

According to the display device resource playing method and the display device provided by the invention, the corresponding audio output device can be selected to play the audio resources and the speak aside information according to the earphone mode and the audio mode when the display device is connected with the earphone and the speak aside output mode under the visual impairment mode. Accordingto the technical scheme, the resource playing requirements of the visually impaired user and the user with normal vision can be met at the same time, and when the visually impaired user and the userwith normal vision watch resources at the same time, the visually impaired user can listen to audio resources and parasites by independently using the earphone; users with normal eyesight can use theloudspeaker of the display device to listen to audio resources; alternatively, a user with visual impairment can listen to audio resources and speak aside information using a speaker of the display device, while a user with visual impairment can listen to audio resources using a headset alone. Therefore, the speak aside information provided for the user with visual impairment does not influence the audio content of the user with normal vision, and the resource appreciation experience of different users can be ensured at the same time.

The invention discloses an intelligent visual impaired person service method and system based on vehicle-mounted glass vibration feedback, and the method comprises the steps: controlling a temperaturesensor to obtain the temperature information of a cushion if the feedback starting of a vehicle-mounted terminal is received, and analyzing whether a preset temperature is exceeded in real time, if yes, controlling an eye tracker to acquire human eye movement information of the seat and analyzing whether a human body is a person with visual impairment, and if yes, controlling a monitoring camerato shoot a monitoring image and extracting object information contained in the monitoring image according to an image recognition technology; converting the object information into vibration feedbackinformation, generating sound simulation information corresponding to the object information, controlling a laser transmitter and a laser receiver to obtain touch detection information, and analyzingwhether a human body touches the vehicle-mounted glass; and if yes, controlling the vehicle-mounted glass to enter a real-time tactile vibration feedback state through the vibration feedback equipment, controlling the loudspeaker to play voice information corresponding to the sound simulation information, and controlling the vibration feedback equipment and the loudspeaker to stop after analyzingthat the human body cancels touching the vehicle-mounted glass.

The invention discloses a doorbell system special for hearing and vision disabilities, and belongs to the technical field of doorbell systems, the doorbell system comprises a doorbell box, a control box, a camera, WIFI / Bluetooth / 4G / 5G, a mobile phone terminal and an intelligent bracelet, the doorbell box is electrically connected with the control box, and the doorbell box collects doorbell pressing information of a visitor and sends the information to the control box; the camera is electrically connected with the control box, collects face information of a visitor and sends the face information to the control box; wIFI / Bluetooth / 4G / 5G serves as an information communication medium of the whole doorbell system; the control box is used for receiving information collected by the doorbell and the camera, is connected with the mobile phone terminal through a WIFI / Bluetooth / 4G / 5G communication medium and sends corresponding information to the mobile phone terminal; the mobile phone end is connected with the control box and the intelligent bracelet through WIFI / Bluetooth / 4G / 5G, and is used for receiving information sent by the control box, performing data judgment and then sending a corresponding instruction to the intelligent bracelet; and the intelligent bracelet is used for receiving a corresponding instruction sent by the mobile phone terminal and prompting a visually impaired person or an auditory impaired person that a guest visits outside the door through a vibration mode and the like.

A method and system used for treating visual disabilities using carotenoids, carotenoid analogs, and / or carotenoid derivatives. The analog, derivative, or intermediate may be administered such that a subject's risk of experiencing diseases associated with visual disabilities may be thereby reduced. Analogs or derivatives of carotenoids may include substituents including for example co-antioxidants (e.g., Vitamin C and Vitamin C analogs). The carotenoid analog or derivative may be synthetic. The carotenoid analog may include a conjugated polyene with between 7 to 14 double bonds. The conjugated polyene may include an acyclic alkene including at least one substituent and / or a cyclic ring including at least one substituent. In some embodiments, a carotenoid analog or derivative may include at least one substituent. The substituent may enhance the solubility of the carotenoid analog or derivative such that the carotenoid analog or derivative at least partially dissolves in water.

A method and a wearable system which includes distance sensors, cameras and headsets, which all gather data about a blind or visually impaired person's surroundings and are all connected to a portable personal communication device, the device being configured to use scenario-based algorithms and an A.I to process the data and transmit sound instructions to the blind or visually impaired person to enable him / her to independently navigate and deal with his / her environment by provision of identification of objects and reading of local texts.

The invention relates to the field of masks, in particular to a non-woven fabric plane mask which comprises a mask body, ear bands and a nose bridge strip and further comprises an identification part, the mask body is in a rectangular sheet shape, the nose bridge strip is arranged in the middle of the top of the mask body, and the identification part is arranged on the periphery of the mask body. And the identification part and the nose bridge strip form a unique position relationship, so that a user can determine the front surface and the back surface of the mask body through touch. The mask has the effect of being convenient for people with visual impairment to wear.

Techniques for a visual disability detection system that employs virtual reality to assess visual performance of a patient based on activities of daily living are described. The virtual reality platform can integrate the testing of different components of visual function based on activities of daily living to provide a direct and clinically relevant measure of the impact of any visual disability on a patient's daily life. By simulating daily tasks for evaluation of visual disability, clinicians can better understand from a patient's perspective how visual impairment affects their daily tasks and quality of life.

The present invention provides a visual disability guiding sheet, a manufacturing method thereof and a construction method of a visual disability guiding device, wherein the visual disability guiding sheet does not need the substructures of cutting operation and embedding operation of the base layer, can follow the concave and convex parts of the base layer only through the procession of the roadsurface with adhesive for adhibiting, not generate difference between convex part and concave part on the road surface. The visual disability guiding sheet can be recognized and discriminated over a long period of time and long durability of the identifying information. The visual disability guiding sheet is formed through forming a projection (4) on the surface of a plate-shaped body (2) which is formed comprising resin. The sheet for guiding the visual disability through being laid on the road surface is characterized in that the inner part of the plate-shaped body is configured with meshes(6). The invention also provides the manufacturing method and the construction method of the visual disability guiding device.

Achildren audio reading material comprises a book cover, book pages, a normal reading area, a blind person reading area, an induction module, a sound module and an RFID label. The product can be readby normal children and children with visual impairment at the same time, and has an audio playing function for the normal children and the children with visual impairment. According to the invention,the sound module, the induction module and the RFID tag are integrated in the interlayer of the book page, are not exposed, have the effect of protecting elements, keep the book page flat and are convenient to carry; in addition, the induction module is used for triggering the sound module, the problem that children with visual impairment cannot accurately find the switch is solved, and the children with visual impairment can also enjoy audio reading materials.

The invention discloses a method and a system for controlling an air conditioner, the air conditioner and a household appliance. The method comprises the steps that in the running stage of the air conditioner, data collected by control equipment are received, wherein the data comprise question information as well as at least one of indoor image data and a running state diagram of the air conditioner located indoors; the collected data are input into a training model to obtain an answer corresponding to the question information; and the answer is played. According to the method and the system for controlling the air conditioner, the air conditioner and the household appliance, the technical problem that people with visual impairment cannot use the same air conditioner as people with normalvision conveniently and quickly is solved.

A shock absorbing handle for a white cane for blind people or visually impaired, incorporates resilient members within its handle, primarily in the form of a spring located in the handle region of the cane, in order to cushion the impact when the lower tip of the cane encounters an obstruction. A length of resilient cord, such as a bungee cord, extends from the top of the handle of the cane, to the lower tip of its bottom most segment, so that when the cord is stretched, the various segments can be separated from their connecting ferrules, and contracted into a smaller size for packaging. The various segments can be stretched, through their resilient cord, and secured together, to form the lengthy white cane, having cushioning impact provided within its handle, to relieve stress upon the user, when obstructions are encountered during usage of the cane during its application.

Novel system, methods, which include machine learning, and device for providing color and fashion recommendations, including for persons with visual impairment such as color blindness or complete blindness. Also, methods providing a data storage system for storing digital renditions of garments; providing a portable communication device to extract color and / or pattern from garments through use of a camera and at least one algorithm; providing a processor capable of accessing locally stored and / or remote information about or learning the preferred matching set of garments; assigning each garment in the set of garments a red-green-blue (RGB) value; providing a suitability ranking for matching compatibility of the garment or the set of garments; and providing recommendations for preferred matching garment or set of garments by organizing the garments in at least one queue selected from the group consisting of audial, tactile, visual or a combination thereof, wherein the individual imports garments or set of garments, through a series of photos or video, for bulk import into a virtual closet for the identification and assignment of type of garments or set of garments using human or computational methods.