Low-Power Chip Processes 3D Camera Data to Help Visually Impaired Navigate
From: Medical Design Technology - 02/02/2016

MIT researchers have developed a low-power chip for processing 3D camera data
that could help visually impaired people navigate their environments. The
chip consumes only one-thousandth as much power as a conventional computer
processor executing the same algorithms.

Using their chip, the researchers also built a prototype of a complete
navigation system for the visually impaired. About the size of a binoculars
case and similarly worn around the neck, the system uses an experimental 3D
camera from Texas Instruments. The user carries a mechanical Braille
interface developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL), which conveys information about the distance to the
nearest obstacle in the direction the user is moving.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/02/low-power-chip-processes-3d-camera-data-help-visually-impaired-navigate

A virtual "guide dog" for navigation
https://www.csail.mit.edu/virtual_guide_dog_for_navigation
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2016/02/virtual-guide-dog-navigation

Link:
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
https://www.csail.mit.edu

Related:
Finger-mounted reading device for the blind
http://news.mit.edu/2015/finger-mounted-reading-device-blind-0310

FingerReader: A Wearable Device to Explore Printed Text on the Go
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/95971
http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects/fingerreader

FingerReader - Wearable Text-Reading Device (video 2:15)
https://vimeo.com/86912300