LookTel Products
Solutions Under Development
We are currently developing a full suite of
assistive solutions for persons with visual impairments or
blindness. Here's a look at some of the projects we are working on:
Identifying objects
Recognize packaged goods such as items in your kitchen or grocery
store, organize money, quickly identify a medication
bottle, easily find a CD in your music collection, and more!
For objects that cannot be recognized using their packaging images,
LookTel provides a set of printed and pre-trained image tags that
can be applied to virtually any object in your home such as
clothing, Tupperware with frozen food or a glass jar. Simply peel
and attach the tag to an object, point your mobile phone at it, and
record an audible description of the item.
Identifying landmarks
Increase your personal
mobility and have confidence in your orientation by training the
system to recognize destinations such as a home or building
entrance. Simply take a photo and label it by speaking into the
phone’s microphone. Later, you can use LookTel to confirm that you
have reached your own home, friend's apartment, or as many other
destinations as you desire.
Personalized image databases
Customize LookTel by teaching it to recognize other
items of importance to you. Capture photos of the items and label
them with your own speech tags. Then, when LookTel "sees" them
again, you will hear your own message about the items you taught it
to recognize.
This can become a family activity, and with each tag, you gain
control over the visual world around you.
Remote sighted assistance
LookTel provides additional state-of-the-art tools for remotely
connecting to another person that can provide a wide range of
assistive services to make day-to-day activities easier. Through a
combination of live video, hi-resolution photos and GPS tracking
data sent from your cell phone, remote assistants can help read signs on street corners and
buildings, provide turn-by-turn directions, and use integrated
resources such as Google Maps to identify nearby points of interest
and help you learn a new neighborhood. With LookTel, the help of
a sighted assistant is within pocket reach at all times.
Text Reader
Use your mobile phone
to take a photo of any printed text and the system will read it back
to you. As LookTel sends these images to a server running a
full-featured optical character recognition engine, this solution
offers a more robust mobile text reader that can handle complex
pages of text and skewed or rotated images.
