Presentation 2016-03-05
The walking support system for visually-impaired person using obstacle recognition sound and distance sensor
Toru Ochi, Shimpei Yamamoto, Shuhei Takasaki, Michio Nakanishi,
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Abstract(in English) Currently, easy and inexpensive distance and depth sensor, such as Kinect and Xtion has been released. We are building a system for performing walking support using the sensor. This system is, for the purpose of walking assistance of those who are visually impaired, to recognize the obstacle from the distance sensor, to inform the direction and obstacles to go by the notification sound from the bone conduction earphone. In this study, ultimately have the goal of wearable device, here reported for the system using the Stick-PC palm-sized.
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Keyword(in English) distance sensor / depth sensor / visually impaired person / notification sound
Paper # WIT2015-105
Date of Issue 2016-02-26 (WIT)

Conference Information
Committee WIT
Conference Date 2016/3/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Tusukuba Univ. of Tech.(Tsukuba)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Hearing / Visually impaired person support technology, etc.
Chair Kiyohiko Nunokawa(Tokyo International Univ.)
Vice Chair Chikamune Wada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Chikamune Wada(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Tomohiro Amemiya(NTT) / Takeaki Shionome(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)

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Language JPN
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Title (in English) The walking support system for visually-impaired person using obstacle recognition sound and distance sensor
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) distance sensor
Keyword(2) depth sensor
Keyword(3) visually impaired person
Keyword(4) notification sound
1st Author's Name Toru Ochi
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka Institute of Technology(O.I.T)
2nd Author's Name Shimpei Yamamoto
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka Institute of Technology(O.I.T)
3rd Author's Name Shuhei Takasaki
3rd Author's Affiliation Toyokuni(Toyokuni)
4th Author's Name Michio Nakanishi
4th Author's Affiliation Osaka Institute of Technology(O.I.T)
Date 2016-03-05
Paper # WIT2015-105
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) WIT-491
Page pp.pp.95-99(WIT),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2016-02-26 (WIT)