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Navigation Aid for the Blind |
Category: Consumer |
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Dayle Swensen
Holladay, UT US
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Page Views: 860
Votes: 12
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Entered: 09/23/2008
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This product would help a blind person navigate city streets without requiring additional human aid.
The benefits for the user are increased independence and freedom.
The concept is a headset with built-in microphone and audio transducer. The headset would incorporate GPS, speech recognition, and obstacle detection technology.
The user would speak an address into the built-in microphone, and via audible information, the GPS system would direct the user to the destination. The obstacle detection technology could inform the user through audible tones of increasing frequency of objects in front, or to either side of the user, and allow the user to avoid these obstacles. A single earpiece would allow access to other exterior noise for safety.
Manufacturing would not require special equipment, as the technology used is currently in use. Manufacturing costs would be comparable to, and perhaps less than current products.
Competing technologies require the use of the hands to enter destination information, some are bulky, and do not provide obstacle information. The advantages of this system are hands free operation, lightweight, and obstacle detection.
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Meet the Entrant, Dayle Swensen
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