RE: Camera That Talks
- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:05:37 -0700
I am an Optacon user, have been for a long time but, I could see a place for
this device in my life, not for fine-reading details, however, I don't take
the Optacon to places where I might want to read a brochure, or to the
store, or to restaurants, places where accuracy of what I am reading isn't
the main goal but to get the information I want quickly and immediately is.
I could see that both devices could help a blind person become more
independent. I would never use the device to look up words in a dictionary
like I do the Optacon, but to read an office memo that came only on paper,
maybe, to peruse a menu and save my table companions from reading it to me
or telling me what interests them, most definitely.
I am not buying one just yet, but I can see such a device in my future,
maybe, and I have a scanner at home, it is great for a lot of things but if
I need to find something particular on a page, the Optacon is my method.
I figure if we can either afford or find funding, all the tools we can
manage leads us to more independence.
Rose Combs
rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Cynthia Handel
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:44 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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