Blind people have difficulty distinguishing the denominations of paper money, especially in the U.S. where all the banknotes are the same size and printed on similar paper. Cell phones with cameras could be used to take a picture of an individual banknote in real time and send it to a pattern recognition server, which could quickly return a verbal description of the bill to the blind person. A smartphone like Android could be programmed to make tasks like this effortless, taking care of details like helping the blind person orient the camera and banknote for best illumination.
Long term, as Google Street View becomes more complete, and pattern recognition gets better, a similiar setup could be used with GPS to help with location, reading signs, etc. This could also be used in reverse, using cell phone images to build the Google Street View database. In the short term, recognizing bank notes is a much simpler initial task. Android could become the platform of choice for helping a lot of people. I don't have the time or the programming skills to do this, but perhaps this message will inspire someone else reading this list. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
