Tencent Digital (Wen Xin) According to the Digital Trends website, camera technology that automatically recognizes faces and text can also help legal blind people to read. According to the definition of the American Medical Association, the corrected visual acuity of the superior eye is less than 20/200, or the visual field angle is less than 20 degrees, and it can be regarded as "legal blindness." A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology shows that by using a wearable camera, the legal blindness “vision†can be increased by more than 2 times in several daily activities including reading.
During the study, participants wore Orcam MyEye cameras. Orcam MyEye is mounted on a pair of glasses and uses character recognition technology to "read" the "seen" text to the headset. It can also use face recognition software to tell the wearer who they are looking at.
Twelve legal blind participants participated in the study. Participants were asked to perform 10 daily activity program tests with and without Orcam MyEye, including simulated newspaper readings or gestures.
Digital Trends stated that the participants scored only 2.5 points out of a 10-point test without wearing Orcam MyEye. About half of the participants also participated in the test using other visual aids (such as a magnifying glass) and scored 6 points. Wearing Orcam MyEye will increase their test score to 9.5 points.
The study also showed that after wearing Orcam MyEye a week later, the participants' scores could be increased to 9.8 points.
OrCam MyEye was released last year, but this is the first time it has actually been tested, although the number of test samples is relatively small. Digital Trends said that in addition to using optical character recognition technology, OrCam MyEye can store face images, and then use the face recognition technology to "read" the identified people to the headset. According to OrCam, OrCam MyEye can also be used to help people with reading disorders.
Elad Moisseiev, chief researcher of the study, said, “Although there have been many advances in ophthalmic technology, tools to help blind people complete their daily activities are limited and difficult to use, OrCam MyEye represents this area. The new progress will help improve the independent living ability and quality of life of people with low vision."
Source: Digital Trends