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From: "Peter Meijer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:58 AM
Subject: [The vOICe] Uniplan develops tactile PC image display for blind
Hi All,
For your information. Appended is an article
from yesterday's Japan Economic Newswire about
a new tactile matrix display.
Best wishes,
Peter Meijer
Seeing with Sound - The vOICe
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm
Uniplan develops tactile PC image display for blind.
MATSUE, Japan.
Uniplan Ltd., a maker of welfare service equipment,
said Thursday it has developed a 'tactile display'
that enables the blind and people with severely
impaired vision to recognize images and characters
formed by protruding pins in response to data input
with a personal computer.
The horizontal display creates images and characters
by raising or lowering by one millimeter the 3,000
plastic pins on its surface which the blind can
recognize by touch, Uniplan said.
The computer controlling the display discerns images
and characters input or drawn with the computer's
keyboard, mouse or scanner, and the display arranges
pin formations in just 18 seconds, the company told
a news conference. The space between each pin is
2.5 mm.
Uniplan President Masaaki Takahashi said the company
will further improve the flat display 'so that the
blind, including children who we hope will use it
as a sort of dictionary, can use it daily.'
Uniplan said it will start selling the display -
measuring 16 centimeters in width and 12 cm in length
- by March 31, 2005 at a low price to facilitate
worldwide sales.
'We hope to price the display at approximately
300,000 yen ($2,750) and, if possible, we would like
to give it an even lower price,' Takahashi said.
The company said it has already received a proposal
from a U.S. organization aiding the blind to jointly
work on the display, as well as a price inquiry.
An official at the Shimane Industrial Promotion
Foundation, an entity affiliated with the Shimane
prefectural government, said, 'The display may become
a global standard as a widely used item of equipment
for the blind.'
The company said it plans to further improve the
display so that it can project images and text on
Internet sites onto the display.
Source URL:
http://www.snowbeast.net/blind/newsarticle.asp?u_id=1607
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