- The
Optacon (OPtical to
TActile CONverter) is an
electromechanical device that
enables blind people to read
printed material that has not been transcribed...
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image (usually of text) so that the
image may be felt by the fingers.
Optacon,
using metal rods
instead of
light in
order to
convey images to
blind people...
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independently with
computers and with
ordinary printed materials. The
Optacon, TSI's
first product, was
conceived by
Electrical Engineering Professor...
- education,
integrated circuits and semiconductors, and for
development of the
Optacon reading machine for the blind.
Linvill and his
identical twin
brother William...
- The Walt
Disney Company design Disneyland;
James C.
Bliss developed the
Optacon; and
Robert Weitbrecht invented the
first telecommunications device for...
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words per minute,
though only some
subjects are able to
achieve this rate.
Optacon d'Albe, E. E. F. (1 July 1914). "On a Type-Reading Optophone". Proceedings...
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Corporation is the
first company created to sell such tools. 1954–1974 The
Optacon, the
first portable OCR device, is developed.
Similar devices are used...
- dictionaries: Tuvan-to-Russian and Russian-to-English. He used a
device called an
Optacon to scan the
pages and
convert the
printed words into
tactile sensations...
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worked on the
development of CCD
image sensors for
application to the
Optacon reading machine for the blind. He also
applied CCD
technology to medical...
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Electronics Laboratories where he
worked on the
Optacon project and
developed the
concept for the next
generation Optacon reading aid for the blind. In 1974, he...
