Camera Phones to Interpret Visible World for Blind

iVisit, a company out of Santa Monica, California that specializes in video teleconferencing applications, has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health to turn a mobile phone's camera into an eye for the blind.

Using advanced image recognition software to identify what is in front of the phone, the system reads off what it is seeing.

Read full article in MedGadget.

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