Image analysis – Applications – Reading aids for the visually impaired
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-01
2009-12-01
Strege, John B (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Reading aids for the visually impaired
C348S062000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07627142
ABSTRACT:
A portable reading machine that operates in several modes and performs image preprocessing to prior to optical character recognition. The portable reading machine receives a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene and processing the low resolution image to recognize a user-initiated gesture using a gesturing item that indicates a command from the user to the reading machine and the high resolution image to recognize text in the image of the scene, according to the command from the user to the machine.
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Albrecht Paul
Gashel James
Gibson Lucy
Kurzweil Raymond C.
Lvovsky Lev
Fish & Richardson P.C.
K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.
Strege John B
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