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http://dx.doi.org/10.9723/jksiis.2016.21.4.013

An Optical Character Recognition Method using a Smartphone Gyro Sensor for Visually Impaired Persons  

Kwon, Soon-Kak (동의대학교 컴퓨터소프트웨어공학과)
Kim, Heung-Jun (동의대학교 컴퓨터소프트웨어공학과)
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Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems / v.21, no.4, 2016 , pp. 13-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is possible to implement an optical character recognition system using a high-resolution camera mounted on smart phones in the modern society. Further, characters extracted from the implemented application is possible to provide the voice service for the visually impaired person by using TTS. But, it is difficult for the visually impaired person to properly shoot the objects that character information are included, because it is very hard to accurately understand the current state of the object. In this paper, we propose a method of inducing an appropriate shooting for the visually impaired persons by using a smartphone gyro sensor. As a result of simulation using the implemented program, we were able to see that it is possible to recognize the more character from the same object using the proposed method.
Keywords
Smart Phone; Camera; Gyro Sensor; OCR;
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