Steve, you make good points and ask good questions. I can't answer the
specific questions you raise, but one thing that comes to mind that would
be quite valuable, is a sign locater and reader. The thing would use a
kind of artificial inteligence to recognize a sign and then use OCR on
the stored image. The output should be in Braille, thank you.
I would pay a thousand dollars for one, if it were about the size of a
deck of cards, weighed less than 8 ounces, and had a battery life of
about one day. If these dimentions have to be compromised, I might still
want one, but the price would have to drop proportionally. Or should I
say "inversely proportionally?"
Should I remind you guys that the scanning barcode reader that I demo-ed
at the February meeting could pick out a barcode anywhere on a page of
pictures and print that was passed within it's field of vision? So,
then, why couldn't a smart sign decter automatically focus on an image
possessing the characteristics of a sign? Once the sign itself is
recognized, the rest is a piece of cake.
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