Re: Camera That Talks
- From: dg140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Pond)
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:25:10 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Anthony. Can any PDA be used, or is the software built around one
dedicated model? What about something like the Maestro running this OCR
software. I now that portable bluetooth keyboards also exist for PDAs.
might these be of use?
Charles
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>Hi Nick;
>
>Basically, the camera is connected to a pda.
>
>However, the pda is unusable because their is no keyboard.
>
>Also, when you save a file, you can only assign the name to the file that
>the pda gives it.
>
>If you want to rename the file then, you need to attach the card to your
>main computer or laptop and rename it there.
>
>If I'm going to use this device, why would I use a laptop to rename a file.
>I just might as well use the computer instead to do everything.
>
>Anthony
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 9:04 AM
>Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>
>
>> What bugs? From whence did you hear it? Data please! All devices have
>> bugs, unless through disuse development has been able to resolve
>> everything
>> known, but no new bugs could be isolated because no one was using the
>> artifact in an ideosyncratic manner or environment and therefore no no
>> bugs
>> were found...
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:24:14 -0400, Anthony Vece wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure their will be.
>>
>> I'm not putting the unit down.
>>
>> I'm simply saying that right now I heard it has a lot of bugs and until
>> they
>> are resolved, it is not worth my money.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cynthia Handel" <cindy425@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>>
>>
>> >I understand that there's supposed to be some improvement in reading
>> >curved
>> > surfaces, in future software upgrades of the KNFB Reader.
>> >
>> > Cindy
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Ham Steve" <k8sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:35 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>> >
>> >
>> > Charles,
>> >
>> > I think this isn't a real workable idea. If one had a camera such as
>> > the
>> > NFB Reader, which operates by taking a picture of a page from about
>> > sixteen
>> > inches away, depending on material, there wouldn't be the immediate
>> > feedback
>> > which we have in an optacon. This was the main drawback to Oleg's P2RD
>> > machine, IMO. YOu could not easily scan an image and look for certain
>> > areas
>> > without zooming in and retaking the picture, if it were possible to do.
>> >
>> > A second delay in the KNFB implementation is that there is about an
>> > eight
>> > second delay from when you snap the pictyure until it goes through its
>> > auto-focusing routine and actually snaps the picture.
>> >
>> > Yes, it will read some rounded containers; probably a 90 degree swath,
>> > not
>> > really sure on how wide of a band it will read, but it can't be much
>> > wider
>> > than that.
>> >
>> > Steve
>> > Lansing, MI
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Charles Pond" <dg140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:48 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Camera That Talks
>> >
>> >
>> >> rather than simply rebuilding the optacon using the original circuit
>> >> designs with today's technology, it might be sensible to build a
>> >> USB-compatible tactile array in a box with the needed controls, and
>> >> plug
>> >> it into something like this "camera that talks". I other words, alter
>> >> and
>> >> refine oleg's readiog machine-based approach. Does it make sense to
>> >> re-develop a stand-alone optacon? From what I am piecing together over
>> >> time of how the optacon R1D and II work (here a little, there a
>> >> little),
>> >> and with today's technology, it would seem feasible to build an optacon
>> >> about the size of a cassette tape case or thereabouts. (maybe not
>> >> including battery?)
>> >>
>> >> Charles
>> >>
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